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1 hour ago, PMW said:

 

That's not the true ebay spirit!

 

Rule 1 - Separate the tat, put it back on ebay at an inflated price so we can have a laugh about it here

 

 

 

One mans tat is another's gold !!

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Done a @hayfield today and picked up a load of assorted bits and bobs from a market stall, was labelled £20 the lot, all 7mm stuff, white metal, brass, resin etc 

 

seems to be lots of MSE bits to make up signals, there’s posts, ladders, lamps, signal arms, scale link clock etches and canopy boards, DM white metal fencing panels, SD models buffer stops, a few Langley items such as an etched phone box, Southwark bridge models LSWR platform seats x4 and other bits from 10 commandments and slaters to name but a few!

 

cant decide whether to sell it on as job lot or try and split it to smaller lots such as the seats and signalling stuff on its own etc 


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11 hours ago, big jim said:

Done a @hayfield today and picked up a load of assorted bits and bobs from a market stall, was labelled £20 the lot, all 7mm stuff, white metal, brass, resin etc 

 

seems to be lots of MSE bits to make up signals, there’s posts, ladders, lamps, signal arms, scale link clock etches and canopy boards, DM white metal fencing panels, SD models buffer stops, a few Langley items such as an etched phone box, Southwark bridge models LSWR platform seats x4 and other bits from 10 commandments and slaters to name but a few!

 

cant decide whether to sell it on as job lot or try and split it to smaller lots such as the seats and signalling stuff on its own etc 


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Certainly looks a bargain at £20

 

Rule 1  Is there anything there you want ? Virtually all of my lot purchases have item(s) I want and this is the biggest personal cash benefit

 

Rule 2 separate into either individual lots or groups of similar items, the latter divides postage  between several items

 

Rule 3 don't be greedy 

 

In my view reselling in a single lot will not realize the full value of the items, even if you only split it into 4 or 5 related lots, but either way will result in more work

 

Well done and good luck and keep looking a great find

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9 minutes ago, hayfield said:

 

 

Certainly looks a bargain at £20

 

Rule 1  Is there anything there you want ? Virtually all of my lot purchases have item(s) I want and this is the biggest personal cash benefit

 

Rule 2 separate into either individual lots or groups of similar items, the latter divides postage  between several items

 

Rule 3 don't be greedy 

 

In my view reselling in a single lot will not realize the full value of the items, even if you only split it into 4 or 5 related lots, but either way will result in more work

 

Well done and good luck and keep looking a great find


there’s nothing I want in there as it’s all 7mm, although I did find a single 4mm ratio security fencing pack and some useable fox hazchem decals 

 

im going to split it into lots, seats, signals, doors and windows, scenic items etc, probable list them on the next 80% off fees day as I won’t have time to do it before my current offer ends tomorrow 

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I have a lot of similar pieces* in various drawers and boxes, problem is which drawers and boxes are they in? As I'm unlikely to use them it might be a good idea to sell them on. 

* Things such as Scale Link etches which have only been partly used and spare 'alternative' bits from plastic building kits etc. All are in 4mm (00) scale.

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1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

I have a lot of similar pieces* in various drawers and boxes, problem is which drawers and boxes are they in? As I'm unlikely to use them it might be a good idea to sell them on. 

* Things such as Scale Link etches which have only been partly used and spare 'alternative' bits from plastic building kits etc. All are in 4mm (00) scale.

 

I have found that both me and others like it when others share their unwanted items, especially parts. I have collected so many I will never use the bulk of them and perhaps like you I should sort out those I will and those I will not use and like big Jim sell them in lots which reduces the effects of postage

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By the time you sort out the bits, photograph them, list them, pack them and take them to the post office it's about 20/30 minutes per item,  Economic madness based on minimum wage  but when you get that magic £10 inc postage job lot and get £50  plus postage for some of the items  it's a nice warm feeling.  But you won't get rich any time soon.

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1 hour ago, DCB said:

By the time you sort out the bits, photograph them, list them, pack them and take them to the post office it's about 20/30 minutes per item,  Economic madness based on minimum wage  but when you get that magic £10 inc postage job lot and get £50  plus postage for some of the items  it's a nice warm feeling.  But you won't get rich any time soon.

 

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Your missing the point in general though your point on making money is accurate. Rarely by buying anything for £20 will make you rich reselling it

 

For me its putting back into circulation and more importantly use items which are clearly useful to others. In fact quite a few times I have brought the odd cheap item that is been out of production for some time but just right for either what I want at that moment of time or replacing a missing part of a kit

 

A recent example is I have a NuCast GWR steam railcar missing its etch, the other day I saw and won said etch. The kit is no longer incomplete, either I can build it or sell it for far more than a kit without that part.

 

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After about 4 years searching I finally struck lucky this weekend. I have a spare dismantled Triang double ended electric diesel. It's  main problem was the pantograpth roof insert had been accosted by a maniac with a soldering iron who had put about 3 holes in it. - I'm not the world's best solderer but even I know you can't solder to plastic. In 4 plus years I've only seen a spare on eBay once and that went for 25 pounds. Anyway a job lot of smashed bodies came up with this piece intact and I got it for a tenner. Seeing the pantographs alone go for 30 pounds each, a complete but playworn working one should get me the investment back.  The other bodies will go into a special " 99p pile of tat" lot I'm planning😎

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I keep saying this but made my last buy for a few months until I can offload a bit.  A load of  track and spare parts that was not attracting any interest for some reason. went for it mainly because I wanted a well hidden Triang pantograph and gambled on it not being broke so got lucky. what I wasn't prepared for was the amount of  new old stock spare parts in there in tins and I spent a happy 3 hours yesterday sorting them out. Some of it will be kept for personal use but suffice to say for 22 pounds I have now overtaken Peter's Spares as the UK major stockist for princess valve brackets, Nellie wheel pick-ups and Hornby Dublo brush springs 😂

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On 10/03/2024 at 18:54, hayfield said:

Rarely by buying anything for £20 will make you rich reselling it

 

If you buy something for £20 and it's worth £40, and you do it often enough then you might not get rich but you can make a decent little profit. The problem with that in this industry is that rather than people undervaluing model railway stock they tend to do quite the opposite, often dramatically so. They seem to think that their late father's Triang Flying Scotsman is worth £300 despite the missing buffer and bent valve gear. As a reseller I have lost count of the times I have been invited to "come and have a look and see what you think" about some dearly departed relatives model railway collection only to arrive and find a few tatty pieces laid out on the dining room table and the seller envisaging a price tag with at least one nought too many. Not everyone takes kindly to being told their nearest and dearest's pride and joy is worth eighty quid when they were thinking five hundred. So much so, that I have stopped doing it now. If someone asks if I am interested in buying something then I always ask for photos and a price first and if I get the answer "come and see what you think" then I do something more constructive with my time, such as watching Skill Builder's excellent video on youtube about paint drying. 

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I am afraid to say I have no idea about either the RTR or collecting (RTR) side of our hobby. But kits and kit building is another story, my knowledge mainly lies in 4mm scale and now learning about 7mm.

 

I would not know a good buy in the RTR/collecting area and thankfully no one has asked me to assist in disposing of their stock. I buy to improve my own collection or find parts to assist in building kits I have. However I am getting much better at letting things go that I don't need, in fact selling these unwanted items actually is much appreciated by like minded modeler's who actually want/need the items I don't require and reduces the cost of my modelling activities

 

My last job lot allowed me to sell off unwanted items at starting prices far below what I would list my own items I want to dispose of, in fact made the items I wanted very cheap (for once). The bulk of which has now gone bar a few items, which hopefully will have totally gone in a month, probably with the exception of 1 item I don't need but is so rare I will not sell it off cheap

 

82.jpeg.4a649fdb8117a0b4c92ab2f8a910c2ba.jpeg  These are 32mm 0 gauge track gages, the top two are very similar to the Brook Smith P4 track gauges, which in

 

themselves are not too common, but I have never seen them in 7 mm scale. With the inception of Templot plug track the need for gauges is very limited, but to a track builder like myself I would only want to let them (the two black ones) go to someone who would treasure them as I do. I seem to value them far more than anyone else.

 

 

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