how do I weigh two big black sacks full?

mumhug

Hi I have listed 2 big black sacks full of my little pony stuff and i specified local pick up.Someone just emailed to ask if I would consider sending by courier (he said he will cover costs) only I would have to give them a rough weight.Any ideas how I could go about weighing too huge black sacks? Thank you:rolleyes:

ormus

weigh yourself on some scales, carrying the bags.
then weigh yourself alone.
subtract one from tother and bobs your uncle.

pulliptears

mumhug, is this new my little pony or old? If its old you may need to look into it further as some could be worth £100+ on there own.

charlottevwa

pulliptears wrote: »

mumhug, is this new my little pony or old? If its old you may need to look into it further as some could be worth £100+ on there own.

damn! my mum gave all mine to a little girl who lived next door!! I'll kill her for that! lol! :eek:

pulliptears

charlottevwa wrote: »

damn! my mum gave all mine to a little girl who lived next door!! I'll kill her for that! lol! :eek:

Lol, I help run one of the biggest collectors forums for MLP on the net, and trust me, its silly money.

In their wisdom the company only released certain ponies in certain countries, so you get lots of UK exclusives and variations. this being one:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/My-Little-Pony-Alternate-Birtflower-Dafodil_W0QQitemZ260197395226QQihZ016QQcategoryZ375QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Lots of money to be made if you know your ponies lol

A few of the newer ones do go for more, but nothing as significant as the originals.

StaffsSW

I would not even bother weighing it - simply reply that it is not worth your time and inconvenience to send these.

I speak from experience - I listed 5 huge teddy bears as local collection, the winner was in Peterborough, and pestered me about sending them via Parcelforce, and would pay me for it. I stupidly agreed to this.

They paid me £8 - for a £7.99 courier charge - but i still had to package up the teddys in loads of binliners, then parcelforce refused the collection on the basis of inadequate packaging - a trip to the supermarket to scavenge a huge box, repack the lot, wait in for another collection - it really wasn't worth it. It also seems the buyer thinks that all this effort is only worth 1p over the postal charge - I hope they had the decency to leave me 5 stars for P&P.

I explained all this to the buyer, who never responded except for a simple positive stating "thanks"

Just to cause controversy on here - I left them a neutral. If I list something as collection only in future, it is exactly that. Collect when it is convenient for me.

With all the faffing around with scales and packaging, I' sure you'll realise too why it was offered as collection only.

charlottevwa

pulliptears wrote: »

Lol, I help run one of the biggest collectors forums for MLP on the net, and trust me, its silly money.

In their wisdom the company only released certain ponies in certain countries, so you get lots of UK exclusives and variations. this being one:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/My-Little-Pony-Alternate-Birtflower-Dafodil_W0QQitemZ260197395226QQihZ016QQcategoryZ375QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Lots of money to be made if you know your ponies lol

A few of the newer ones do go for more, but nothing as significant as the originals.

I actually think i'm starting to hate my mother lol.... really, i've never been so gutted in my life!!! Im actully sure i had one very much like that in the picture there aswell. I had about 20 of them, all wil be about 20 years old now, and they were good condition as i never played with them alot.. i was more into barbies!

mumhug

thanks for the advice theese are mostly new ones there are a few pre 1960s that I picked up from car boot sales. I dont really want to send them but I only have the 1 watcher so feel I have to.:rolleyes:

frivolous_fay

pulliptears wrote: »

Lol, I help run one of the biggest collectors forums for MLP on the net, and trust me, its silly money.

Do you happen to have any links on the full UK range... or identifying a pony? I used to have one (was a gift, not the sort of thing my mother approved of) and I'm curious about whether it was anything special.... just in case there's a remote chance it didn't end up at the village jumble sale years ago

mumhug

do the older ones still have my little pony stamped on them or just hasbro?

pulliptears

frivolous_fay wrote: »

Do you happen to have any links on the full UK range... or identifying a pony? I used to have one (was a gift, not the sort of thing my mother approved of) and I'm curious about whether it was anything special.... just in case there's a remote chance it didn't end up at the village jumble sale years ago

Of course Fay! You can try here and identify it yourself:

http://www.kimsites.net/dreamvalley/identify/identify.html

Or, if you give me an idea of colour, type (Unicorn, standard pony, pegasus) and symbol I can probably tell you off the top of my head anyway.