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Topic: 16mm collection selling strategies?
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Logan Rothstein
Junior
Posts: 5
From: Raleigh, NC, USA
Registered: Feb 2017
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posted February 25, 2017 11:56 PM
A couple of days ago I put up post in 16mm films for sale/trade/wanted about selling my collection. It can be seen at:
http://16mmsale.com/
Films include educationals, features, TV shows, home movies and cartoons. There are many rare prints like old declassified military film, Star Trek episodes, Lost in Space, Barbarella in Cinemascope, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Superman, commercials, home movies as old as the 1920’s, Wonder Woman, the Mary Tyler Moore Show and even some Adult films from a porn theater in Brooklyn that shut down in the 1970’s.
Also there are educational films ranging from the 1940’s – 1970’s and include topics such as VD, school bus safety, health, driver’s ed, seatbelt safety, drugs, hygiene, manners, bicycle safety and much more.
It was my first post here and Doug advised me that to do it per forum rules, I should set a price on it. And while I think if I parted it out, it might hit around $20k (US) but of course as a lot, I would take much less.
Doug was kind enough to talk with me about it via email and he suggested that I set a lower price so buyers feel they'd be getting a deal. But my concern was that if I knock, say 25% off, then in negotiation I lose another 25% it is starting to hurt. But with a small lot or one film, I could see how a set price would be better for everyone.
In any event I went ahead and listed it on Ebay with an opening bid of $13470 (which was the highest my account would let me go) - and have already had some people offering to make a deal with a discount from the OPENING BID PRICE!
I haven't bought or sold film for 15+ years and really don't want to make selling this collection a new hobby. But at the same time, I realize it's a huge collection and may be difficult to sell as a lot because of the size.
I guess short of redoing the post like Doug suggested and lowering my asking price, what other strategies do you think I could use to try to offer a good deal to buyers, yet still get a fair deal for what I put into the collection, and for what it is worth now? [ February 26, 2017, 02:38 AM: Message edited by: Logan Rothstein ]
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