Want to Sell a Collection Yourself?                              Here are Some Factors to Consider

Selling a Collection Yourself Can Be More Difficult than You
Realize.

Selling a collection is hard. It’s not only hard in the sense that a
collection is hard to part with because it represents a lot of love, time,
and money invested, but because selling a collection and getting
value from it is difficult on a practical level. Here are a few things to
consider when selling your collection or someone else’s that you have
inherited.

You will not get full value selling in one lump lot.
Selling a collection doesn’t mean you cash out quickly and get every
penny of what your collection is worth. You will not get the maximum
value of every piece of your collection by selling it in one lot.
Collectors and resellers alike will walk the other way. It’s easy to get
discouraged, or to feel like you’re being lowballed or ripped off, but
look at it from their point of view.

Resellers won’t touch your collection because they wouldn’t be able to
profit. Why would a collector pay full price for a large collection when
in all likelihood they only need some of the items you’re selling and
would then have to go through the work of selling the duplicates for
what they paid? Selling a large lot at once will require a drastic
reduction in price per piece to make a deal.

Piecing out a collection is difficult and time-consuming.
In order to get max value, you will have to sell each piece individually.
This means a lot of Facebook Marketplace no-shows, or sitting at a
flea market booth for hours.

The most common way to sell a collection
is eBay, but this requires taking quality photos, writing descriptions,
filling in details, dealing with customers, and the ever-present
headache of returns, disputes, snipers (last minute bids that shut down the auction by running out the clock) and spammers.

You also have to research the items. Even if you’ve been the one
collecting them, prices change over time and what you may have
pegged your items at in the past may be off the mark in today’s market
for good or bad. If you’re selling someone else’s collection,
familiarizing yourself with each piece, identifying them, and finding the
appropriate value is even more difficult and time-consuming.
Piecing out a collection takes hours upon hours of hard work. It’s
definitely doable, but also time-consuming and difficult.

There is a third option.
Let us auction your collection. Coast2Coast Auctions ® can get the
best return for your collection quickly and with no work needed on
your end. Our online comic auctions have set over 700 world records, and
we have extensive expertise in coins, Civil war, militaria, stamps, vehicles, and more.

If you have a collection you’d like to sell, please contact us at
314-680-8599 or use this link for a free consultation to find out how we
can help you.