Your help with Pricing

[billjustbill]

I'm getting ready to "have" a garage sale... In the pics below, would you look over the items and give me an idea of what they would sell for in your area?

The old silverware is 60 pieces of two different patterns... (I re-did the case with "Scuff Cote shoe polish"), The Howard-Miller clock is battery/quartz and solid Oak. The solid mahogany 4' level has one glass fogged from the inside and the sledge hammer has a protective collar over the handle.....


On table 1 the pipe wrenches are 10", 12" and 18" steel plus two more are 18" Aluminum body, many black wrenches and S wrenches, and several draw-knives.

Table 2, in front, has a device that holds open a horse's mouth, to its left is an railroad "F-wrench" stamped "R.I. Lines". Also there is a pair of metal/wooden hames, a horse collar with a mirror in it, a real 1906 jug, an old microscope, an old hand-crank drill, small animal trap, and assorted hatchets and axes.

The "Ford" pliers and wrench also have two more smaller 4" long "Ford" stamped wrenches, not seen, that one doesn't find so easily.

Thanks,

 

[nathan104]

Where in Texas are you? Sure would like to have that sledge with the collar and the double sided axe.

 

[billjustbill]

Would you give $12 for the sledge and $15 for the double ax? ;>)

Here are more pics of garage sale items: 1950's locomotive bell with the actual brass "Bell switch" that rings it, an old Parlor heater, old children's rockers, and a 5-piece Children's Ice Cream set...

 

[billjustbill]

Would you give $12 for the sledge and $15 for the double ax? ;>)

Here are more pics of garage sale items: 1950's locomotive bell with "Bell" switch that rings it, an old Parlor heater, old children's rockers, and a 5-piece Children's Ice Cream set...

Here are a few more things in next week's garage sale: Prices you think they would go for?

 

[Tallone]

Assuming, for the sake of discussion, that eBay is not an option.... Personally, I'd be selling most of this stuff on Craigslist. In most cases, you will get a much better price that way.

 

[mammoth29]

Could you have the sale here in Utah? I would love those hatchets... What are they exactly?

 

[nathan104]

Tell me a price on the train bell before you sell it. MY dad retired from the railroad with 40 years in, he may be interested. And, I JUST bought one of the little cast iron ovens just like that one for my wife a couple of months ago. Ours has a few more little cooking accessories with it though. Paid $40 if I remember right. What city are you in?

 

[billjustbill]

Could you have the sale here in Utah? I would love those hatchets... What are they exactly?

Thanks for asking me to move the sale, but the driveway is already too far...\

Most of the hatchets are Plumb, the rest are unmarked.

 

[billjustbill]

Tell me a price on the train bell before you sell it. MY dad retired from the railroad with 40 years in, he may be interested. And, I JUST bought one of the little cast iron ovens just like that one for my wife a couple of months ago. Ours has a few more little cooking accessories with it though. Paid $40 if I remember right. What city are you in?

I'm 30 miles away from Ft. Worth.

The train bell will have to bring between $350 and $400. It's bronze cast and the locomotive's 2-1/2" round brass switch that is made for the bell's ringer is stamped "BELL". Boy, does it ring and keep on sounding! Once mounted, all it takes is a small single air hose buried in the ground and up the backside/inside of the mounting post. No need for electricity or manual ringing, just push the BELL button air switch.... It weighs close to 50lbs, so that's why if it doesn't sell, I'll list it with Dallas/Ft. Worth Craigslist.

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

Hey Bill, how much you want for that Old Telephone?....Im in the Ft Worth area

 

[Paleo_joe]

The best garage sale I ever had was titled "Divorce Sale." I think people have always heard those urban legends about wives selling the husband's Porsche, and they can't resist coming to see what's for sale.

After some dealer knocked on my kitchen window before dawn to see the stuff before everyone else, I wish I would have had a bear trap out there, though.

 

[ARC]

Um... what's the mark on silver ware say? both sets please.
If you see the word "sterling" on any piece... DO NO TSELL AT SALE.

 

[mkulltra]

The best garage sale I ever had was titled "Divorce Sale." I think people have always heard those urban legends about wives selling the husband's Porsche, and they can't resist coming to see what's for sale.

After some dealer knocked on my kitchen window before dawn to see the stuff before everyone else, I wish I would have had a bear trap out there, though.

I actually have been to one of those sales. Lady sold me all of her husbands golf stuff for $40. I got about a $1000 worth of training and practice items some I sold and some that I kept for myself. Made a nice profit too.

 

[diggummup]

Since you are asking about pricing for your garage sale I will say... Just keep in mind that garage sales are where people like you and I go to look for bargains. If it ain't cheap people ain't gonna buy it. Whenever I have a sale, I invite a select few (buyers & collectors) people that I know from the gs circuit for a preview before I have the sale the following day. I do this because I know these are the people that (for the most part) know what something is worth and will pay a fair dollar for it. I know this because I have seen what they pay and what they buy at other sales, be it a garage or estate. I don't invite the cheapskates, they can wait till the day of the sale.

 

[billjustbill]

The long telephone case is empty for the most part. I think it has the coils for the ringer. I'll price it at $35. the shorter Oak box has the working generator and think it rings the bells, but doesn't have a crank. It's $45

 

[billjustbill]

I actually have been to one of those sales. Lady sold me all of her husbands golf stuff for $40. I got about a $1000 worth of training and practice items some I sold and some that I kept for myself. Made a nice profit too.

Two sales I quickly remember had some great gold and silver. The first one was "after" the divorce about 3 summers ago. Apparently, both found new loves fairly quickly. The lady married and was selling the contents of the house with her new hubby by her side. The two "newly weds" were selling her stuff before they move to the Metroplex to start a new life. Inside a box of those thin sandwich baggies filled with costume jewelry, there were 7 baggies marked $12 each; I bought them all when she came through and said she had put some of her "good" jewelry in those... One had a 10kt gold tennis bracelet.... The jeweler said it had 35, ten point diamonds equaling 3-1/2 karats. Still have it when I saw what those sell for on Ebay.

The other sale had a lady doing the sale for the family. There was one family member that had no rights to the contents of the property and the family had to hire a police officer for security to keep her out. It was a stressful time for all. The family didn't care about the jewelry and the lady in charge had it priced and put in baggies by another garage seller. I spent $700.00 for sterling and 10kt, 14kt, yellow and a little of 18kt white gold. By the time the rest of the weekend went by I found another garage sale with gold and silver. Then the morning of the last day, I went back to the first sale and found some of the 1gram and 2 gram thin gold chains were half price at $7, before the seller pulled other gold baggies.

This year has been a good success; I've paid for my 5KW solar electric project materials and equipment. If only gold could hit $2,000 or more.....

By testing, weighing, and adding up what all I found over that one "Thursday, Friday, Saturday" weekend, it came to just over 2 troy ounces of refined .999 gold in the safety deposit box!!!!!

 

[mkulltra]

I just remembered another one. Recently this lady had a box of civil war reenactment stuff that was her ex-husbands which she sold to me for $10 to get rid of it. I still haven't really gone through it yet even though it's been sitting around for two months.