Model Toy Cars

chrisyc

Hello all,

I have loads of model cars, Dinky, Matchbox ETC. I have started selling them on ebay, but they take an age to put all the details/pics up. Was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to put them up on ebay??

I was thinking of doing something like 100 "buy it nows" at say £5 and then they just get a random car delivered. like a sorta of lucky dip.

Any ideas??

Regards

Chris

shelly

Don't know if buyers will go for the lucky dip thing as they might want a certain car. Maybe sell them in batches of 5 or 10? Like 5 sports cars or 5 trucks. If I think of anything else I'll come back

natjay_2

I would say have a sort through what you have got and make sure there is no little gems amongst your collection, some of these cars can sell for a lot of money
I also don’t think the lucky dip thing is a good idea and I also think selling in lots is not the best idea

I would say take the time and list as individual lots

frivolous_fay

Don't think you can do a lucky dip... it breaks the rules about offering choices of items.

Batches sounds good.

By the way, try using turbolister if you aren't yet. Make a basic template and change the details and photo on each listing to suit.

chrisyc

I might try the turbo lister idea, i have gone thru quite alot of them........there are some that are worth quite a bit of £ but most of them are roughly £10ish.

:cool:

Contains_Mild_Peril

If there are some of fairly low value (e.g. £1-2 each) it may be worth selling those in lots, but I'd list any expected to sell for £5+ individually. Turbolister does save quite a bit of time when listing several similar items. Don't expect your cars to achieve "list" prices (e.g. from collectors' guides) on ebay - they probably won't. The "lucky dip" might be allowed, since you're not really offering customers a choice of items, you'd be making the choice for them, but eBay could remove the listing if they consider it a form of lottery, and I don't think it would attract many customers. Some would already have so many in their collections they'd think there was a high chance of getting a duplicate of one they already own, while some would suspect you only had one or two of good ones and were using the scheme to offload junk.

chrisyc

tbh i wasnt really sure if that lucky dip sort of thing would be allowed thats why a put this topic here. I knew one of you guys would know hehe . I think i will just try this turbo lister idea.

Thanks for all your help anyhoo

Contains_Mild_Peril wrote:

If there are some of fairly low value (e.g. £1-2 each) it may be worth selling those in lots, but I'd list any expected to sell for £5+ individually. Turbolister does save quite a bit of time when listing several similar items. Don't expect your cars to achieve "list" prices (e.g. from collectors' guides) on ebay - they probably won't. The "lucky dip" might be allowed, since you're not really offering customers a choice of items, you'd be making the choice for them, but eBay could remove the listing if they consider it a form of lottery, and I don't think it would attract many customers. Some would already have so many in their collections they'd think there was a high chance of getting a duplicate of one they already own, while some would suspect you only had one or two of good ones and were using the scheme to offload junk.

dodger65

http://search-completed.ebay.co.uk/dinky-matchbox-car_W0QQcatrefZC6QQcoactionZcompareQQcoentrypageZsearchQQcopagenumZ1QQfisZ2QQflocZ1QQfromZR32QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ3QQga10244Z10425QQsacatZQ2d1QQsaprchiZQQsaprcloZQQsaslcZ2QQsatitleZQ28dinkyQ2cmatchboxQ29Q20carQ2aQQsbrsrtZd

here's a completed search soughted by highest value first have a peep to see if you have any - you can change the "car" to "van" "truck" "lorry" whatever just to see if you don't have one little gem in there (like natjay said) ;+)

bingo_bango

chrisyc wrote:

I was thinking of doing something like 100 "buy it nows" at say £5 and then they just get a random car delivered. like a sorta of lucky dip.

Be very careful. A colleague of mine bought a Matchbox car on eBay 4 months ago for £35. Turned out it was a model that was never released to the public, and was presented to the Matchbox board for consideration but turned down.
He sold it at auction in Sotheby's 4 weeks ago....got £2.5K for it :rolleyes:

I would check every single car...you might have a banker in amongst them. Check eBay, but also have a look at some of the specialist collector sites. Pay attention to exact descriptions, and pray that you've got one of the high end ones.

chrisyc

Thats what i keep thinking :rolleyes: what i tend to do is before putting them on ebay i have a quick look through the "value guide" just to make sure it aint big $$$.

bingo_bango wrote:

Be very careful. A colleague of mine bought a Matchbox car on eBay 4 months ago for £35. Turned out it was a model that was never released to the public, and was presented to the Matchbox board for consideration but turned down.
He sold it at auction in Sotheby's 4 weeks ago....got £2.5K for it :rolleyes:

I would check every single car...you might have a banker in amongst them. Check eBay, but also have a look at some of the specialist collector sites. Pay attention to exact descriptions, and pray that you've got one of the high end ones.