Advice needed on selling my Vision Line Big Boy

what is acual item number? Thanks

Take the cost of the item, add in what it might cost to ship and offer free shipping.  I don't know why people rag on eBay, it is probably the best peer to peer selling tool in the internet age.

Don't quote me but I'm betting you could at least get what you payed for it.  That engine has a lot of nice features.

Jim, The Lionel # is 6-11437. Picture of label attached.

Ebay has crazy prices on them. I wouldnt get a VL but they're hard to find. The legacy Big Boys sell for 1900-2100 from dealers. I would sell your Big Boy for mid $2500.

Check the Wanted forum. I think there is someone here looking for one. The For Sale forum is an easy place to start to list it.

I sold one on this forum for $2500 maybe about two years ago.   New in the box never opened.  That price included shipping which depending on how far it’s going could be well over $100 via UPS

i think you could still get in that neighborhood.  New in unopened box are harder to find

Ask for $3,500 and take the best offer over $2,800 plus shipping.

@POTRZBE posted:

Take the cost of the item, add in what it might cost to ship and offer free shipping.  I don't know why people rag on eBay, it is probably the best peer to peer selling tool in the internet age.

That sounds like the right plan to me as well. And I agree, fees or not, the audience you get working with eBay is unparalleled. If you want to move an item that's the place to do it. I've had much better success there than anywhere else. Even factoring in the fees

Put it on eBay for $.99 In a week you'll know what it's worth.

Often bidding wars drove the price up substantially.

As far as selling on the forum you have to consider that your selling with no guarantee and if this locomotive has any warranty from Lionel. I don't know that it's transferable.

In my experience items in the forum usually sell at a lower asking price likely for the reasons I mentioned.

Having said that. You pay no fees to sell here so things balance out.

I also agree with the free shipping . That eliminates one variable that folks consider when making a purchase.

Lastly,IMO. Forum history is also a bit if a factor too.

Long time members that have sold items in the past likely have more confidence from buyers.

FWIW.There is an "o Guage flipper" on here that might make the job easy.

His secondary market prices are rather inflated so you could very well get what you want.

I beg to differ on a very low starting price.  It has been my experience that you should price it at the very lowest cost you are willing to accept. If it sells great, at least you didn't feel you undercut yourself. A really great auction is when two people really really want it and bid it up considerably.  That does not happen on this forum, lcca, or Craigslist.

@POTRZBE posted:

I beg to differ on a very low starting price.  It has been my experience that you should price it at the very lowest cost you are willing to accept. If it sells great, at least you didn't feel you undercut yourself. A really great auction is when two people really really want it and bid it up considerably.  That does not happen on this forum, lcca, or Craigslist.

Obviously, there are no auctions on this forum. I was merely implying the notion that something is worth what someone is willing to pay for and ebay is a good barometer for that.

More often than not. I've watched low starting bid items get more than the same items with a fixed price. Once that bidder adrenaline starts flowing it becomes...eh...I'm already at $1xxx anyway. Whats another 10 bucks.

A conventional hudson probably wouldn't do well on ebay, but a sealed VL bigboy probably would.

The forum is certainly a fine option but the market is much smaller and generally speaking, I thinks folks here prefer "better" deals, for reasons I mentioned above.

I suspect the O.P. may have already even received some offers by virtue of this very thread.

Interesting as I have a friend who is a TCA member but is not on this forum. He has this same engine never removed from its box and He wants rid of it. He keeps asking Me what He could get for it. I didnt know what to tell him. I will watch this thread.

The only Problem is the buyer has no warranty if something is wrong.

Mikey

Why no warranty?   If the item is unopened and it was not registered with Lionel, how would they know who the original purchaser was?

Now if your talking timewise since the item was released, the buyer would have no warranty anyway.

@POTRZBE posted:

I beg to differ on a very low starting price.  It has been my experience that you should price it at the very lowest cost you are willing to accept. If it sells great, at least you didn't feel you undercut yourself. A really great auction is when two people really really want it and bid it up considerably.  That does not happen on this forum, lcca, or Craigslist.

That's pretty much the way I work as well. But to be fair there are people in both camps. There are highly experienced sellers that start all auctions at 99 cents, they believe more often than not they do very well. RicO is correct, I have seen auctions explode once the frenzy starts. So there's two ways of looking at it. I myself set a Buy It Now price for the minimum I'm willing to take. But like I said, there's some highly experienced sellers that start alil their auctions at 99 cents because they say they get the best prices. And at times they are definitely correct. Once the frenzy starts people have a tendency to keep it going

Hi Guys,

Thanks for all of the comments. I didn't realize my email address was not in my profile, so I just went in and added it (I hope!). Not trying to circumnavigate anything...was just looking for opinions from those that I trust. Many thanks again!

Wyndham