Deceased estate collection in Australia

The Fiddlebacks and some of the others should do well, but the bulk is just too common to make much anything on them. That Ti Fluted Spyderco Military is worth much more than the as new price, for sure.
 
mcjohnson81 said:
Thanks for your advice everyone, it's very much appreciated. I'm going to see if he'll take $4.6k. I think there's still a lot of value in there and I won't mind taking the time and effort to try and re-sell. Probably naive but live and learn I guess.
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There's plenty of money at that purchase price to be made selling those knives on forums, Ebay, Etsy, commission cabinets at a local antique/vintage mall, etc.

Good luck and have fun.
 
mcjohnson81 said:
Thanks for your advice everyone, it's very much appreciated. I'm going to see if he'll take $4.6k. I think there's still a lot of value in there and I won't mind taking the time and effort to try and re-sell. Probably naive but live and learn I guess.
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There is an active Australian knife forum. It might be worth joining and starting there.

Good luck with the deal. At worst you bought a super fun collection for yourself!😊
 
There are sites out there that will buy whole collections like this (which I am not at liberty to disclose, because they are not paid members) & you will take a serious loss, but you won't have to deal with the intricate details all on your own. It's kind of a lot of work. Personally, I would go with ebay with each piece. Lots of pics & your best description. ebay has a HUGE audience.
 
Maybe keep what you like, sell the profitable ones, then sell the rest to those who buy collections?

In any event, good luck with it all!
 
mcjohnson81 said:
Thanks everyone, great advice. Sounds like trying to sell to US isn't a viable option.

I think I'm going to offer about 17% of the total purchase price - $US4.6k. I think that should leave enough fat to make a profit just selling domestically.
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Skip it unless you are retired with nothing else to do. Odds are high you will burn a lot of time and be stuck with a lot of low price point to outright unsellable inventory. Hard pass.
 
eveled said:
Unless you want an instant collection for yourself it makes little sense.

If you owned a shop or had a retail space to sell the ones you don’t want. It might be feasible. Even a small display case in a barbershop or baitshop
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I think that this is spot on. I had the same thought during my SAK debacle. If I had a shop with a lot of foot traffic I might have made a little money, (not enough to justify the time spent) it was the shipping that killed it.
 
mcjohnson81 said:
Thanks for your advice everyone, it's very much appreciated. I'm going to see if he'll take $4.6k. I think there's still a lot of value in there and I won't mind taking the time and effort to try and re-sell. Probably naive but live and learn I guess.
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Maybe you will learn something. Maybe you will make a killing. Maybe you will do both. Maybe you will do neither. 😁 Best of luck, let us know how it goes.
 
Here in the states you see collections like these at every gun and knife show. It’s usually some retired old coot who bought the collection from the widow of the guy who used to be at the next table over. That guy bought it from the widow of the guy who used to be at the table next to his. They never sell anything to the public because they price it ridiculously high, and instead just adorn the tables with the same crap month after month, year after year, until they die - then the cycle repeats itself. . . 😁

Here’s the thing, if you can afford the loss there’s no harm in trying. If buying this and getting stuck with an inventory you can’t sell puts you in serious financial jeopardy then run. Otherwise just have fun with it.
 
XJ-linux said:
Guilty as charged. Describes about 95% of my pile. I wouldn’t buy 95% of my stuff to get to the 5%, but that’s me, and I don’t like dealing with me, so I guess I’m a little biased. ;)
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norcalAF said:
I prefer to deal with my taste, but I'll admit it's a rarely acquired taste 😉
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That’s me as well. I have a collection of vintage Rimfires and fly rods that cost an arm and a leg. Basically worthless to 99.9 percent of the buying public. That’ll be fun for my kin when I’m gone. . . 🤔🤣
 
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