I've been clearing some old stuff out for the last couple of years and I finally got round to selling some of my old 'toys' after making some good money selling my sons old toys (Games, Lego, Playmobil, Nerf guns etc)
I am truly amazed at how much some of my old Dungeons and Dragons and Games Workshop stuff sells for!!!
Today I worked out that I have sold about £500 of stuff in the last 2 months and I have about £800 listed to sell.
Simple/small things like metal miniatures from vintage Games Workshop have recently sold for circa £35. Some complete and good condition GW boxed sets sell for £150-£200 and I have three of them plus an expansion worth a similar amount.
I've just found a couple of extra boxes of D&D stuff and 3 items are worth about £220 between them 😳
I know its not actual money until it is sold, but so far the stuff I have listed based on recent UK Ebay sales have gone for similar prices...
Check your loft/shed! You may be storing enough to pay for a Valentines meal out/holiday/new bike .
If you cant be bothered to do it yourself, send me the details and we can share the spoils 🤣
PS - Yes I know HMRC will get interested soon, but so far I have spread it out enough not to worry and as most of it is just old stuff I am selling on and not stuff I have bought to sell so I should be OK.
PPS - I donated a four figure sum to the Hospice that looked after my mum in her last few months after clearing her house which is what gave me the idea of checking the value of our stuff....
PS - Yes I know HMRC will get interested soon, but so far I have spread it out enough not to worry and as most of it is just old stuff I am selling on and not stuff I have bought to sell so I should be OK.
eBay will send the data to HMRC once you pass a certain threshold but no tax is due, you aren't trading.
And I sold a load of old Warhammer stuff last year before I moved house, well over £800 and I've still got some left. Slightly sad to see it go, I'd put aot of time and effort into it but it hadn't been used in over twenty years. Built a Cotic BFe jump bike with the proceeds
Nerd stuff can be worth a fortune, I've got a stack of 90s gw stuff that I hope will fund my retirement, I sold one book for £125 a little while back but I've never taken the time to dig out most of the metal minis.
But it's not just things like this, I mean I think everyone knows about lego but I found a box of old centurions toys that went for £100, some random he man crap went really well, and my brother cleared out a shitload of battered old action force for hundreds.
OTOH some stuff you'd think is worth money, ends up not being, like I was sure our old scalextric would have some value but nope. Or some lovely fisher price stuff. Sometimes the weirder and more niche it is the more it's worth, other times it's just forgotten.
ive got some hornby stuff that i keep meaning to sell. It is crazy, some is valuable, some not. Essentially its all the same though.
Sometimes stuff that was really commonplace is now worth heaps as nobody thought it was valuable so binned it - charles and diana wedding mug anyone?
Also 20 quid is not seen as a lot of money these days. Or 50 even. And older toys are often really nice objects in their own right - handle a matchbox car and it is a really pleasant tactile object, in an interesting colourful box that was designed before a computer did it all
Timely prompt. I’ve got a box of Action Man stuff in the cellar that I keep meaning to eBay. Most of it is in ‘well played with’ condition so unlikely to fetch much but I expect someone somewhere wants a ROM space knight, The Intruder, or German army motorcycle, sidecar, and rider.
charles and diana wedding mug anyone
Didn't look so be worth the effort when I was getting rid of one a few years ago.
I sold some old Corgi and Dinky toy cars that had belonged to my Dad, some got a decent price. A few had original (scuffed) packaging and that really helped raise the price.
Equally, some of it got virtually no interest at all and was snapped up in a last minute bid at £3.
I am hoping that my boxed mamod steam roller will eventually turn up in my parents place. I have all the other bits but the steamroller it's self seems to have disappeared - shame as they seem to be going for good money especially as mine is in its original box with accessories
Got any Britains Deetail 🙂 Always interested in Britains Deetail. I dont want all the horses or vehicles...... I dont, I dont....well possibly 🙂
Remember the M.A.S.K toy line up and cartoon from the mid to late 80's? They're worth a decent chunk, especially the rarer ones. 80's Tamiya R/C too although since most have been re-released it's only really the top condition originals that sell for ££££££ these days.
Bike related you'll get £10 each for pre-97ish MBUK's. Doesn't sound like much but if you had a subscription bitd it could be worth a few hundred quid easily enough.
Bike related you'll get £10 each for pre-97ish MBUK's. Doesn't sound like much but if you had a subscription bitd it could be worth a few hundred quid easily enough.
Same with other 'low cost' items. I had about 15 Audio books from Games Workshop and they sell for between £5 and £15 so it's wracked up to about £90 so far with a couple left to go. Some old slide film Cassettes for a projector; about £5 each and I had about 15 of them (about 6 left to go)
A mate of mine has always been a wheeler-dealer type, always had some scheme or other on the go.
Last time I saw him he was telling me about his lad who seemingly hasn't fallen far from the tree. He's earning extra pocket money by hoovering up Hot Wheels cars from discount stores like B&M and flipping them on ebay. Cute, thinks I. My mate goes "actually, I haven't checked his account in a while, let me just look..." and pokes at his phone. The kid's made over four grand!
eBay will send the data to HMRC once you pass a certain threshold but no tax is due, you aren't trading.
Yep, I got an email from eBay at the end of the year as I have gone over the £1730 threshold so they have informed HMRC. I will see what happens with the Simple Assessment and whether I have to prove (not sure how) I am not a trader on the side in a months time I guess.
Stuck a load of old PS2 and XBOX games on ebay, most for BIN £2-£5 depending on what ebay suggested, then one obscure Japanese horror game went for £60 in a matter of hours!
Oh yeah this one shocked me a bit but my brother's been selling old band tshirts and bloody ticket stubs. I wasn't surprised there was some sort of market for it but he got £200 for a nirvana tshirt that he bought in hmv for £6 in the 90s, even though it was pretty much worn out. £100 for a random Metallica tour shirt, £100 for a completely boring Placebo one. I had a look and I've definitely used stuff worth real money as rags in teh garage 🙁
the ticket stubs is just as weird, a lot just go for a few quid (but of course they cost nowt to post) but some go for £20, £30. And again not necessarily anything you'd expect.
Oh yeah this one shocked me a bit but my brother's been selling old band tshirts and bloody ticket stubs. I wasn't surprised there was some sort of market for it but he got £200 for a nirvana tshirt that he bought in hmv for £6 in the 90s, even though it was pretty much worn out. £100 for a random Metallica tour shirt, £100 for a completely boring Placebo one. I had a look and I've definitely used stuff worth real money as rags in teh garage 🙁
the ticket stubs is just as weird, a lot just go for a few quid (but of course they cost nowt to post) but some go for £20, £30. And again not necessarily anything you'd expect.
I sold a Black Sabbath tour program for about £12 (plus postage). Chap that bought it left me amazing feedback based on the memories it bought back... I need to list the other programs I have (Judas Priest, Meatloaf and some others I can't even remember)
I also just found two small metal sprues of weapons for a Games Workshop army. Last one that sold on ebay went for over £20!
Bike related you'll get £10 each for pre-97ish MBUK's.
Ooh, i wonder if my 1993-96 stash is still in the attic at my folks.
And my old ticket stubs - I've got one for the Foo Fighters first ever uk tour (£8) somewhere...
Whiskey bottle boxes and empty bottles sell well on ebay. Americans want them to decorate their homes and bars/sheds.
1. Check what old stuff you have in the cupboard.
2. Contact Netflicks etc, ask them to commission a show featuring that item/stuff.
3. Profit.