Best place to sell DVDS, CDs and Books

zoeisababe

Afternoon all

My father in law has recently died and we have the great job of clearing all his things..the big stuff is finally all done, but all the CDs and DVDs and specialist books and stuff..where do they go?!

looked on magpie and most are between 30p and 90p....surely they are worth more than that?

whats your opinions on selling such in bulk?

he also has hundreds of teeny tiny lead soldiers he has hand painted...what on earth do we do with these?

Zoe x:(

Crowqueen

They won't be worth a lot to dealers because of the mark-up they need to get to wholesale them, but the flip side is that listing individually on Amazon or eBay might not get you a whole lot of sales of the cheapo ones, only the rarities or popular ones, and you'd have to go through them and list separately.

Work out how much you would get with a dealer and compare that to the time and effort you would have available to list individually. The good thing about dealerships is they take anything and you can sell off junk quickly and it doesn't take too much time to do that. The bad news is the value and if most are only worth pence then probably trying to go to eBay or Amazon with individual titles might not net you a whole lot more.

The soldiers might well be collectable, particularly if the paint job is good. There are a lot of fairs around (I help out at one in Newbury in September where we have a bring-and-buy stall for things people have to sell privately) for wargaming enthusiasts, or eBay would also be a reasonable bet. In the last few years pure collectables haven't done so well, but hobby items have been flourishing, probably because people don't have the money to indulge in expensive luxuries and are spending it on more economical comforts.

JonTurner

The soldiers sound like the sort of thing that might sell very well on ebay- maybe split them up into batches and sell them that way. There's a section called Toys and Games> Games> Wargames (I think) that would probably be the best bit- have a search through completed listings and see if you can find similar. I know that if things have been nicely painted they are generally very desirable, whereas badly painted ones are often worth less than unpainted ones (but that's normally the ones that have been painted by kids, I'm sure your father in law spent a lot of time on his).

As for CDs and DVDs, anything more specialist would be worth putting on ebay or Amazon marketplace (a useful place to quickly check prices too), anything else I would take to a second hand shop (apparently CEX pay reasonable prices if you can get to one nearby, someone posted a thread on it a few weeks ago- but don't expect to get much for them). Books, again worth checking anything specialist on Amazon (but only if you have room to store them til they sell), otherwise go to a 2nd hand bookseller and see what they'll give you for the lot, or for some of the rarer ones. Modern paperbacks, if there are any, are probably best sent to the charity shop, as you'll have difficulty selling them unless you can find a dealer to buy them in bulk.

(edited to add) Have just checked on ebay and there is also a section specifically for toy soldiers, so if they are not specifically part of a particular game then that'd be the best place to list them. Make sure you take some really good close up photos and try and describe them as accurately as possible (ie the era they represent etc)

Olokia

JonTurner wrote: »

anything else I would take to a second hand shop (apparently CEX pay reasonable prices if you can get to one nearby, someone posted a thread on it a few weeks ago- but don't expect to get much for them).

You can check CEX's prices online - http://uk.webuy.com/sell/

If you can't find the item or you are not sure which one it is, then you can just enter in the barcode.

CD's you will get basically nothing for but DVDs can get a good price depending on the age/popularity. Any disney DVDS probably will get quite a lot.

If you do choose CEX and have a lot of items, it is usually better to go any other day than Saturday and preferably a weekday because their queues can get quite long.