[Anonymous]

The Other Growth of my personal income has become important! 😀 😀

Have some ORIGINAL, LEGAL, blah blah ……. WPW videos in good shape .

Thinking of selling them.

Is EBAY the best/only way to go??

Anyone have experience with this OR

Tips on how to make it go well?

What’s with this PAYPAL thing?

They MUST charge ya to use it, right????

Thanks in advance.

[David]

eBay is pretty much the player in the auction market. There are some others but… well who’s heard of them. eBay charges a flisting fee based on the asking price and then a fee when you successfully complete your auction based on the selling price. It’s not much when you get down to it.

PayPal transfers money from the buyers account to your account, checking or credit card. I forget whether or not they charge the seller or not.

[AlexG]

Yes, Paypal does charge a fee, unless they’ve changed their policy/setup with eBay since this past January – many concider it a double dipping into the seller’s profit, so they don’t use it. Personally, if you’re just starting out I’d stick to Money Orders and Bank Cashiers checks as a means of accepted payment. If you want to include Personal Checks state in the listing there is a two-weeks/10 working days clearance time on them.

I’ve sold several WPW/RM tapes and Bodybuilding magazines on eBay in the past, and based upon that experiance your best time to sell them for the greatest return would be after this summer period, in the fall and closer towards Christmas when people are more inclined to loosen up on their wallets for bidding. (BTW – this is also true of most collectiables, including comic books). I might also add that if you’re planning to include any MEM or adult oriented FBBr tapes or magazines they’ll have to be listed in the Adult Check section, otherwise eBay will auto-pull and erase the listing from the public section of the site. You might want to make a bold text note (I’ve used a moving gif banner with mine) on your public listings for people to also check those listed in the Adult Check section.

Another thing occured to me, shipping – especially with VCR tapes. If you use USPS for your listed shipping method (which is what I do), at the post office you can pick up ready to use priority mail mailer boxes and Flat Rate envelopes. In both cases, its only $3.85 to ship an item (for the boxes it must weigh one pound or under) and you can include an optional offer for insurance to the customer as a part of the mailing cost. For myself I also add in Delivery Confirmation as a manitory part of the shipping to make certain the package got to where it was suppose to go and didn’t end up in Outer Mongolia.

Hope this is of assistance. 8)

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Anonymous]

WOW! Thanks AlexG !

Have all the WPW mags but keeping them for now.

Is WPW 1 actually worth anything by now?

ANYWHO….. Will definitely follow your advice!!

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If Deana Panting has been in the closet this long,

she can wait till December to come out!!

HEY, is that a double entendre!!!! 😀 😀 😀

[AlexG]

WOW! Thanks AlexG !

Have all the WPW mags but keeping them for now.

Is WPW 1 actually worth anything by now?

ANYWHO….. Will definitely follow your advice!!

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If Deana Panting has been in the closet this long,

she can wait till December to come out!!

HEY, is that a double entendre!!!! 😀 😀 😀

Panting certainly made many a fan short of breath . . . 8)

In ref to your question, I’m assuming it’s not retorical – hard to say, as I don’t believe there is any collectibles pricing guide for it, usually its a case of what someone is willing to pay for it. With more recent WPW magazines, say of the last ten/fifteen years, you might want to sell them as bundles by the year of publication, older then that then indevidually.

With single issues – Ironman, Flex, Muscular Development, etc – if its in near mint condition, a loose rule of thumb I go by would be what’s the current price of BBing magazings as a guide for a starting bid and/or observe the eBay listings of others for a while, just to get a feel for what the market is willing to bear. If its got an exceptional amount of female muscle material contained within it – say a swimsuit issue or older magazine when it was (yes, people there was actually a time when this was true) common to see workout and interview / photo op articles or even two / three-fold centerspreads, then figure in a fetish factor, but in total keep the starting bid at around $9.99 (one penny more at $10.00 and you end up paying .55 for the listing rather then .35, which can add up really fast as outflow expense with multiple listings – tricky these electron pushers.)

If you’re really uncertain and think you have a truely hot item then place a reserve price on it.

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Anonymous]

keep the starting bid at around $9.99 (one penny more at $10.00 and you end up paying .55 for the listing rather then .35, which can add up

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