[Milsurplus] How to sell rare stuff

[Don Davis]

Rare is as rare does.  The only way to determine market value for
infrequently traded items is with an open, no reserve, low opening bid,
auctio, without the buy-it-now option.  Period.  If you don't care about
getting market price, then make up a price and offer it on the NGs.  You'll
get lots of emails ragging you about "...how overpriced your piece of junk
is, and why not sell it to me for $10...."

I buy and sell on the NGs and on ebay both.  When I advertise something on
ebay to the NGs, I offer a 15% discount to NG members.  Makes up for using
the NG bandwidth, and has an element of "fairness" about it.  I offer things
to the NG when they ae "commodity" items with enough buying and selling to
set a consistent price.

Your milage may vary..

73s

Don  AD6PB

John said:

> I'm thinking about selling some excess, rare WW II radio items and am
curious
> about what other listers think is the best way to do it. Problem is, some
are
> very one-of-a-kind.  My options seem to be: