Re: Is anyone here a toy collection expert?
I'm currently selling my collection as well. I have around 125 carded SW figures MOMC, plus multipacks, and a few vehicles. They're almost all newer than the Saga blue cards that came out around AOTC. I used Ebay as a price guide, and after much debate, I seperated my SW collection into two groups. One group of figures are ones worth $3 or less, and the other are worth more. We have a town event this weekend (a hot air balloon fest if anyone is curious). It's the only BIG event my town has, and it pulls in thousands of tourists. My family always has a garage sale during this weekend, as there are so many people in town, and we live near the park it is held at, we would be fools not to have one during this time.
Last year a guy stopped by and bought $700 worth of my personal collection after just mentioning it to him that I was thinking about selling my stuff. I thankfully already had an inventory list with prices, but had planned to list them on a few websites. This year, I am putting the figure worth $3 or less in the garage sale for $3.50 a peice, or 3 for $10. With all the kids, tourists, etc in town, I might as well try it. Conversely, I had a lot of them listed for $2.50-$3.50 on my inventory list, using Ebay as a price guide. So I may "make" more money by selling them in the garage sale. (Even if I paid $5 for each of them originally. :facepalm )
However, I'm not doing this with anything else. The other SW figures I'm going to list on the internet, as will my comic books, LOTR collection, and other items. In fact I did the same with my LOTR collection, and overall it's worth around $250-$350. I just don't want to take the time to sell each one individually, and would prefer to sell them as one big lot. It's taken me years to decide if I want to do it or not. But with college and everything bearing down on me, I have to do something.
EDIT - I also spoke to a professor I know who collects comics, and he said that he didn't think any of my local stores would even think about buying my comic book collection. He said my best bet would be to just list them on Ebay or Craig'slist. So I don't know about your area, but apparently mine is not friendly to buying large amounts of anything right now. XD Having said that, I'm totally taking my collection with my next time I go to St. Louis to see if the stores would be willing to buy it anyway.