Advice on selling Beatles memorabilia

mini-me66

Hi

Looking for advice on selling some Beatles stuff. I have some rare (?) books, stamps, collectors cards, and a scrap book on newspaper clippings from the 60's about the beatles. Some of the stuff was from Canada (newspapers clippings and cards).

I obviously want to sell these in the best place possible but am not sure whether ebay is best, or is there somewhere else recommended?

Has anyone sold bits before and know if there is a time of year that is best. I'm thinking not right now as near xmas, and probably not in jan/feb?

Would really appreciate some advice and not sure if things are worth much!

Thanks in advance

Crowqueen

To be honest at the moment things are incredibly slow, particularly in the memorabilia categories. There isn't an awful lot of spare cash around at the moment, and with Christmas on the way people are either saving for that or buying presents, decorations, food and so on in preparation. I would like to sell off some postcards and excess stamps from my collection habits, but nothing I've listed so far this year along those lines has sold at all. You are right not to be thinking about the next few months but I would wait until the economy is definitely starting to recover as people will be buying pure collectables again at some point.

eBay is usually good for miscellaneous, cheapish memorabilia (such as concert programmes, old newspapers/magazines, posters and so on) but if you have real collectors' items then going to another offline auction house may be better as you may reach people who have money to burn.

mobile48

Have a look tomorrow and see what the following and similar items sells for to get an idea of the market:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BEATLES-RARE-1963-UK-PARLOPHONE-PROMOTIONAL-POSTER-/260692892511

Beatles remains a top search term on ebay but no idea what time is best.

If you have not sold on ebay before I would not start with these items you need to get used to how it works and how to attract buyers etc and build up some feedback.

steviebabes

I would have thought it a very good time to sell Beatles memorabilia due to the itunes agreement. The above item has 43 watchers so pretty popular.

Pembroke

First off I'd take a look at this webpage and ask if any of the items are really rare. If so then follow it up if not then look at / sell on Ebay.

http://www.bonhams.com/eur/HowToSell/