Online Selling Shockers

When I sell, I go on eBay, I use the pricing tool and eBay aranges the list from lowest price to highest price.

I then sell my item below the lowest price as long the other item is not in really bad shape.  The market is the market.  This system works for me.

The problem with my system is when I'm selling a really rare item or something NIB and there's nothing on eBay to compare. I then have to make a stab in the dark on the pricing.

Also keep this in mind, they don't make good quality items anymore.  Well not like they did in the early 2000's.  Besides, who wants a short and stumpy baby faced Thomas.  The dome is suppose to be short and stumpy, not the whole loco.  Give me a snark face Thomas any day. Plarail is the best by the way.

So each day that goes by, there's more and more collectors coming into the market place and less trains.  The prices goes up.

I remember in 201?'s, you could easily find 1st, 2nd gen talkies, Powerful Gordons, Talk and Actions, and other Plarails on Japan's online auction sites, now their becoming even rare over there as well. It's the way of the world.

But, then in some flea markets, you can find some rarer things to find, usually for a cheap price, it’s because of the fact that people in flea markets want it gone asap, so if you find a TNA there, the seller will say, $5, $10 something like that because they wanna get rid of it, eBay on the other hand, you can find some really good items there,, but most of the time, it’s just people selling a “number 11 green motorized train” for $90 +

I'm not saying you can... but I've never found a Tomy Plarail Thomas of any kind in my local central Florida flea-markets. Most of the time, if I see a Thomas at the flea-market they're the new baby face stuff, or if its an old Trackmaster it looks like the child played fetch with it with their dog.

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When I sell, I go on eBay, I use the pricing tool and eBay aranges the list from lowest price to highest price.

Wait...there is a Pricing Tool on Ebay???

I usually check Facebook Marketplace for Thomas stuff. I got the complete w/box Thomas at the Timber Yard set (Thomas & Terence Deluxe Set), both Trackmaster Henry and Trackmaster Fisher Price Talking Thomas with free book. All for very cheap and reasonable prices. I never went to a flea market before.

Super... yes just search for the item you want, and when you get a list of items, select (Sort) at the top right and then select (Lowest price). There you go. My good deed of the day.

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Thanks Mike...I thought there may have been a special tool that I had missed.

Super, I must have got something wrong in translation... you already knew about the sort feature, right? 

Right!

I knew I didn't know something about eBay that you didn't already know about. 😊

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Thanks Mike, yes, I knew about the 'sort' but admittedly never used it to price an item, frankly never thought of using it to help it that way. I was hoping that there may have been a tool that also took into account the 'Sold' items too.

Thanks Mike, yes, I knew about the 'sort' but admittedly never used it to price an item, frankly never thought of using it to help it that way. I was hoping that there may have been a tool that also took into account the 'Sold' items too.

Yes...  that would help out alot.  It could help to maintain an understsnding of what the item sold for in the past, so one doesn't over pay in the future.