Where and how is best to sell models?

[Gretchen]

My Father's just sold one of these MINT Damon Hill FW15 1/18. Never been out of the box, and the box was probably only handled once!! Given to him via client or some such, For all of £25. Gutted.

I'm going to help him sell the rest of his collection from now on, after i've pilfered a few for myself .

So where's best to start and how am I going to be able to judge prices? I've looked at ebay, but things seem to vary wildly! How can I assertain a fair price? Do many sell through PH, which i'm guessing would be a good place to start?

[motormania]

ebay is the best place. Forget PH as not enough collectors know about it.

TBH some models are way over priced and I will only ever buy something that is being sold below original RRP. If no one is selling at the price I want I won't buy. I have a life outside of collecting and it will not bother me in the slightest of I can't get that last model for my collection. I collect to enjoy the model not as an investment, the two don't go together.

[gopher]

I'd agree with ebay. whilst it does have it's faults a properly advertised (ie good photo's good, honest, description with complete clarity on postage charge etc) in the right category(ies) will more often than not fetch a fair price. It does help if you have a good feedback rating as well but you have to start somewhere.

I sort of changed hobbies a few years ago and got rid of 20-30 models in this way and all went for more than the minimum I would have been happy with or I expected (I did not want to set a reserve or too high a start bid) and a few that were slightly more rare than I knew fetched well in excess of what I expected. (one 1:72 aircraft model bought for something £5 some 10 years earlier fetched nearly £40 I didn't know at the time that it was a popular model that had gone out of production around the time I bought it).

[Mk3Escy]

Also remember something is only worth what somebody is willing to pay.