No idea of value. I'd probably pay no more than $200 for the lot, but thats just me and you could probably find a better offer elsewhere. (No, I'm not offering to buy, I'm just saying what I would pay.)
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That's like $1.30 for each issues of a magazine full of adventures most new players have never seen! Adventures that crap all over some of the material published now days.
There's people on eBay selling single issues for as little as $4 to as high as $70 each!
$200 for the lot? Yeah... pass. Thanks for your input anyway.
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If you want to make more than that, you will need to sell each issue individually, and you will need to spend up to three years in online auctions to move it all. If you want to move it as a lot, it will take you much more effort to find a buyer willing to lay out several hundred dollars at once. You will take a huge in in potential payout to save yourself the hassle of selling individually.
Well, you could let others determine how much they would pay for it. Do an online auction and publicize it well, that way you'll have those who really want an entire collection bidding. You could have the STARTING bid at $200 perhaps with a reserve of how much you'd be willing to sell it for and see how high the price goes (or doesn't go).
That would probably be a good way to sell it for whatever the going price for the whole collection should be right now...or at least I imagine that would be a good method.
Books, especially magazines, are very difficult to resell.
If you want to make more than that, you will need to sell each issue individually, and you will need to spend up to three years in online auctions to move it all. If you want to move it as a lot, it will take you much more effort to find a buyer willing to lay out several hundred dollars at once. You will take a huge in in potential payout to save yourself the hassle of selling individually.
This. If you want to sell them all as a whole, people are going to give you lower bids because there's only so much cash most people can shell out at one time.
Selling them individually will net you more profit, as people can spend - and are comfortable with spending - more total money with the payments spread out. But it will take significantly more time.
Alternatively GreyWolfLord's method is your next best bet - put it on Amazon or eBay or something and pray you get someone willing to shell out a large lump sum for a complete collection.
I wish you the best of luck in any regard. I don't have much interest in physical gaming products anymore, I've been all-digital for years myself. Which is another hurdle you'll have to make - you'll be competing against Paizo themselves and other merchants selling digital PDF copies online, meaning your main target audience will be people who don't want digital copies at all. Collectors and the like, especially if you're trying to sell the lot as a whole.
I don't have much interest in physical gaming products anymore, I've been all-digital for years myself. Which is another hurdle you'll have to make - you'll be competing against Paizo themselves and other merchants selling digital PDF copies online, meaning your main target audience will be people who don't want digital copies at all.
I might point out that you can't buy the AD&D issues of Dungeon in digital form. I don't think I'm alone in the opinion that if you want good AD&D adventures, you can't do much better than Dungeon magazine. So you could find buyers for those.
That's a fair point. Like I said, I'm not the target audience for this =)
I'm the target market for this kind of thing, although have now got my collection done, so I guess I used to be the target market. I'd have easily have paid $5-$6 an issue for a complete collection, including the inserts/maps and so forth. (What I actually did was pay much more for the early issues and not much for the later ones, if you decide to sell them individually - issues 1-10 were the hard to find ones when I completed my collection).
However, the fact they are incomplete drops their value by quite a bit. I wouldn't buy a "complete set of incomplete magazines" in one go for very much at all (I'd pick and mix to get the whole lot). I think in terms of maximising value, you'd do much better selling off issues 1-20 (or so) since they didnt come with inserts anyway, so depending on condition you won't have lost much (I've seen near mint copies of issues 1-6 be advertised and sold for $50+ each).
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I will try and sell them as a lot at a local gaming club because I just don't have the time to try and sell 150 issues individually on ebay, would be nice though.
While I wish you the best of luck, I have to say, that in my experience, game clubs are very cash poor, and so would not be willing or able to pay very much money.
If the game club thing does not pan out, instead of trying to sell the magazines individually, you could divide them up by year published, placing them into lots of 6 for the earlier issues and lots of 12 for the latter issues and sell them that way; granted, that would be more "leg-work" than trying to sell them as a whole, but a whole lot less than selling them individually...
Noble Knight Games is usually good about buying stuff like that.
I'd like to have a complete run of them myself, but I'd strongly prefer to have the posters and inserts, and definitely wouldn't want any in "very used condition." Also, even in mixed condition the lot of them should easily be worth an average of $3 per issue, and I don't happen to have $450 lying around.
I've got the complete run of Dragon magazines in print. I think one of them has a damaged cover and all the rest are in excellent shape. I have idly wondered from time to time what I could get selling those, but I'd probably hate myself once they were gone.
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How big are your arms.
You could pack them in luggage and ship your clothes.
:)
Afterall, you have to have priorities in life!
Keep them for the sentimental value. I have family that are Ebay-ers and yes, collections sell faster and higher if they are split up, and to a seller, consistent and rapid turnover albeit at moderate profit is superior to praying you get that one Neckbeard with Daddy's credit card.
If I need a Dragon Magazine for that ONE thing I may need out of a whole plethora of ads and odd articles, I'll just hunt down the individual PDFs like I've done to make a character that was Unseelie Fey, Arctic, and a Wild Reaper variant Druid.
I've debated burning my 3.5 collection just to spite the resale market, but realized that I'd rather find some aspiring DM/worthy group to gift them to someday. That, and its one of the most common systems out there that people are familiar/comfortable with. A whole generation of RPGers were active during 3Es run... and the spirit of 3E is still alive today in PF.