Selling bulk items & looking for strategy on forums/eBay and the like.

[Coldkilla]

Say I have a bulk of new items (20-30 new Office 97's, 5-10 Windows 95's, 40-50 Windows NT 4.0 cd's + 50 or so others) (Older by technicality, but still in packaging). Is is a good selling strategy to:

A. Sell them all in bulk?
B. Sell them all individually?
C. Sell them all at the same time?
D. Sell them all at the same place/website?
E. Package another product with it?

Your thoughts?

 

[pontifex]

i would say B and/or E

who the hell wants to buy bulk old software? not that many people probably want to buy old software individually anyway...

 

[shoRunner]

individually, you'll get a much better price, i wouldn't put them all on at the same time at the same site as you will most likely drive down the price (more supply & same demand = lower price)

 

[Bulk Beef]

20-30 new Office 97's, 5-10 Windows 95's, 40-50 Windows NT 4.0 cd's

Are you sure that's bulk?

 

[lightpants]

If you stacked them all together would the stack be the size of a car part?
An alternator maybe?

 

[FoBoT]

are you selling beef?

 

[Ramma2]

Sell them at different times, for sure.

 

[Coldkilla]

Alright. That Works. Appreciated much.

When you say "No one wants old products anyway", when you have over 100 pieces of old "brand-new" software and you do your research, you find that each is worth anywhere from 4-11 dollars each. Throw that into how many you have (70-100+ cds), that's worth some money. Not to mention if your job pays for shipping and you ship them at no cost to yourself

I'll sell them at different times. Thanks!

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: Coldkilla
Alright. That Works. Appreciated much.

When you say "No one wants old products anyway", when you have over 100 pieces of old "brand-new" software and you do your research, you find that each is worth anywhere from 4-11 dollars each. Throw that into how many you have (70-100+ cds), that's worth some money. Not to mention if your job pays for shipping and you ship them at no cost to yourself

I'll sell them at different times. Thanks!

10 lbs is not bulk, if it is not more than 10 lbs it isn't worth your time

 

[Bulk Beef]

10 lbs is not bulk, if it is not more than 10 lbs it isn't worth your time

I think the question of whether 10 lbs. is bulk or not is far from settled, sir.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Coldkilla
Alright. That Works. Appreciated much.

When you say "No one wants old products anyway", when you have over 100 pieces of old "brand-new" software and you do your research, you find that each is worth anywhere from 4-11 dollars each. Throw that into how many you have (70-100+ cds), that's worth some money. Not to mention if your job pays for shipping and you ship them at no cost to yourself

I'll sell them at different times. Thanks!

its worth that much if people want to buy it. i don't know too many people who want to buy a copy of windows 95 thats what, 3 generations of OS old. the office might be easier to sell since i don't really think much has changed between versions, although i think there may be a problem with running older office versions on newer windows OSes

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Bulk Beef

10 lbs is not bulk, if it is not more than 10 lbs it isn't worth your time

I think the question of whether 10 lbs. is bulk or not is far from settled, sir.

is 10 lbs of feathers considered bulk?

 

[Phoenix86]

What about rubber duckies?

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: Coldkilla
Alright. That Works. Appreciated much.

When you say "No one wants old products anyway", when you have over 100 pieces of old "brand-new" software and you do your research, you find that each is worth anywhere from 4-11 dollars each. Throw that into how many you have (70-100+ cds), that's worth some money. Not to mention if your job pays for shipping and you ship them at no cost to yourself

I'll sell them at different times. Thanks!

Your job pays for shipping and you keep all the revenue? That's a pretty sweet deal.

Sell individually and at different times. The latter may not be that big a deal if the amount you have is small compared to the overall market.