Has anyone ever sold off there collection peice by piece instead of a lot?

[gepeto]

I was just curious has anyone ever sold there collection or a large part of if peice by peice. How did it go? How long did it take? Did you give up and go to a lot or did you get what you wanted and sold everything? I see most people selling lots. I here alot of people saying lots are quicker but hurt the overall profit. Just Curious.

[walrusmonger]

Good example:
some guy was selling a castlevania lot on ebay, 175 BIN. I bought it and resold most of the lot for $280. I still kept dracula x and bloodlines, so I would have gotten at least another $60 had I sold those, making my selling each thing by itself get two times as much.

Of course it took a lot of time to photograph and list each one, while taking a few pictures and writing a list is enough for a lot. Is the time spent worth the money you'll get? Only the seller can be the judge!

[jcalder8]

I know that there have been a couple people who have sold off their NES collections piece by piece. You do make a lot more money by selling off piece by piece but I always just sell lots because its so much easier.

[GM80]

I sold off my complete US Dreamcast collection piece by piece about 2 years ago, spent an entire weekend creating the eBay listings with a paragraph and photo per piece, and I estimate that I came out at least 50% better on price than I would have selling it as a lot.

[briskbc]

I've just started the process (my sig) but have done it in the past before. I prefer to sell it individually. You can get away with brief descriptions of a couple sentances. I won't be selling the games off in lots until I get to the common stuff that really isn't worth the effort to list separately.

[Jdm101518]

I've done it, to some degree. I highly recommend it instead of lots.

[gepeto]

I have seen some sell there items on ebay maybe 50 aat a time. The all seem to start and end at the same time or close.

When you setup to sell like that does ebay give you an option to save and resume creating a listing until you are ready to post all your items or do you just start real early and stay logged in until you are finished? It seems mind boggling to me to have and control 100 plus auctions all going at once. I remember the guy that sold everything he ever owned on ebay it took over a year.and went to vegas to and bet all on one roll of the roulette.

[briskbc]

eBay has a program called Turbo Lister. It lets you prepare a bunch of auctions and keep them in a library within the program. You move each item to a ready to upload status and submit them all at once. I use it for all of my listings. It's free too.

[SaturnFan]

I did with my Saturn collection. Sold it game by game, starting with the crappy titles first. Last games I sold was my Panzer Saga and Burning Rangers. I wish I kept those two games though.

[drewbrim]

It just depends on what games are being sold. In the past year I've sold my entire Turbo Grafx, NES, SNES, PS1, and Genesis collections. For the most part it is better to sell higher priced items by themselves, there are quite a few instances where smaller lots will go for more than the individual games would separately. I have dubbed this phenomenon "The Convience Fee". Basically it's when people are willing to overpay to receive all the games they are looking for at the same time, so they can avoid the hassel of dealing with separate sellers, or the time of searching for what they want.

You see it most often when the entire series of a game is sold in the same auction. It's why SMB 1,2, and 3 when listed together sell for $35! Or Mega Man 1-6 sell for $80. You couldn't get that total if you sold them separately. Castlevania, Sonic, Dragon Warrior, even series where all the games are mildy valuable (Final Fantasy, Phantasy Star) I could go on for a while but the reason that I think it works is that you are receiving value for relatively worthless games (i.e. SMB, Sonic 1, DW1, MM2, etc..).

I should also mention that you need to have all the games in the particular group for this to apply. The following auction title "Mega Man 1,2,3,4,6 RARE! MINT! Nintendo", just isn't the same and would sell for probably $20-$25 less than a complete set. Even though Mega Man 5 isn't worth $20 by itself.

[Shou]

I sold off my whole collection (the legendary $100k one) as a lot because that alone took forever to list, selling piece by piece would have taken years.

[8bitnes]

It just depends on what games are being sold. In the past year I've sold my entire Turbo Grafx, NES, SNES, PS1, and Genesis collections. For the most part it is better to sell higher priced items by themselves, there are quite a few instances where smaller lots will go for more than the individual games would separately. I have dubbed this phenomenon "The Convience Fee". Basically it's when people are willing to overpay to receive all the games they are looking for at the same time, so they can avoid the hassel of dealing with separate sellers, or the time of searching for what they want.

You see it most often when the entire series of a game is sold in the same auction. It's why SMB 1,2, and 3 when listed together sell for $35! Or Mega Man 1-6 sell for $80. You couldn't get that total if you sold them separately. Castlevania, Sonic, Dragon Warrior, even series where all the games are mildy valuable (Final Fantasy, Phantasy Star) I could go on for a while but the reason that I think it works is that you are receiving value for relatively worthless games (i.e. SMB, Sonic 1, DW1, MM2, etc..).

I should also mention that you need to have all the games in the particular group for this to apply. The following auction title "Mega Man 1,2,3,4,6 RARE! MINT! Nintendo", just isn't the same and would sell for probably $20-$25 less than a complete set. Even though Mega Man 5 isn't worth $20 by itself.

Convenience for getting all of the games is part of it. I think the big thing is the potential savings in shipping. Think Megaman 1-6 at $5 for the first and $2 for each additional is $15 shipping (which is low compared to some of those out there), but in a lot, a seller might be asking $8 for shipping. A quick savings of $7, but the bid may end up more than $7 higher.

I think this really hits home in those lots of 20 garbage NES titles. Those ones filled with Capt Skyhawk, Playaction FB, Silent Service, Top Gun, etc... They typically sell at $1.50 - $2.00 per cart, but then shipping for all 20 games is like $15, which is far below the $2-$5 per cart avg one sees.

On a side note, this probably belongs in the ebay forum and not B&S.