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Hey guys, so i've been trying to clear out an excessive bitz collection for a few weeks, with a lot of interest but no one seems to have any cash.

Now I remember before GW started threatening people over bitz, you used to be able to get mega bags of bits from warstore every once in a while, I dont remember how much they were or anything

I'm thinking that is the direction I will be going, however I'm not sure how much to actually charge here

IIRC, one place had a $25 bag of random bits.

Frankly, it depends on the bitz.

Condition/Race/Material all factor into a price.

I would not pay a lot of cash for bits I wont need, or don't like the material, no matter the price.

Well I appreciate the advice of "if the bag is full of vomit it isn't worth as much" Its kind of obvious and does not answer the question, It looks like currently I'll be going with ~25 and filling bags with what I feel is fair.

That is not what we mean though. Bitz of different armies are worth more.

For example, Grey Knight Terminator Hammers go for a lot. Simply because they don't supply enough on a sprue. Same with Cannons. So if you were to sell Grey Knight bits, you would get more if it included Grey Knight Hammers vs not having any at all.

Same can be applied in any army. A bag full of random "left over" bits won't sell for very much. A bag of much needed will grab a lot more.

Throwing a mix of each in a bag however is going to devalue it. If I want your Hammers and Cannon (as a simple example) I don't feel like paying you for all the other useless bits. What you may think of fair might not be what another person thinks.

That being said, usually sprues go for 1-2 dollars each (once again, depends on the army), a sizable bag I could see going for 20-25. There really is no "set" value, it's what a person wants to pay for it.

grundz wrote:Well I appreciate the advice of "if the bag is full of vomit it isn't worth as much" Its kind of obvious and does not answer the question, It looks like currently I'll be going with ~25 and filling bags with what I feel is fair.

Now that's not very friendly.

You wanted to know how to price your bitz. The response you got was that it depends on what kind of bitz you're talking about.

Since you missed the social cue, here it is in plain language:

Without more details about the nature of the bitz you want to sell, no one here can answer your question. We'd love to help you out, but we need more information in order to provide helpful knowledge.

s_o_r_r_o_w wrote: Without more details about the nature of the bitz you want to sell, no one here can answer your question. We'd love to help you out, but we need more information in order to provide helpful knowledge.

The bitz are absolutely, completely, totally random from any number of castings, GW, PP, Dreamforge, and misc manufacturers from ~1980 -> present, if it was manufactured any time in which most people that read the thread were alive, and was for little model dudesmen, it could be in there.
Their nature is they could be, or once part of models, probably, there's some jewlery chain, guitar string, and misc conversion stuff in there as well which, I would leave out any metals/misc stuff until after the bag was at weight, then add a few.
So by completely random bags of a pound of bitz, I actually ment, a completely random bag of a pound of bitz.

Yes, If I wanted to spend days/months/years going through cataloging and selling them individually I could make more money, drive up demand, whatever, but that isn't what I am going to do, if that is what someone else wanted to do, they could have, but my offers have been in the range of "you should pay me to take them" to "this might cover shipping" I'm looking to get an approx value on a completely random pound of bitz of roughly 28mm scale mini's.

grundz wrote: The bitz are absolutely, completely, totally random from any number of castings, GW, PP, Dreamforge, and misc manufacturers from ~1980 -> present, if it was manufactured any time in which most people that read the thread were alive, and was for little model dudesmen, it could be in there.
Their nature is they could be, or once part of models, probably, there's some jewlery chain, guitar string, and misc conversion stuff in there as well which, I would leave out any metals/misc stuff until after the bag was at weight, then add a few.
So by completely random bags of a pound of bitz, I actually ment, a completely random bag of a pound of bitz.

Now that's a little more helpful.

Also, if it's dominantly plastic, that obviously cuts down the majority of the bitz from being pre-1998, as there were few manufacturers, GW included, producing significant portions of their ranges in plastic.

Including manufacturers (and excluding others eg Target, iKore, etc) helps to narrow it in again.

For what you've described, I think your instincts are good. $20/$25 per pound.

How many pounds do you have?

s_o_r_r_o_w wrote:

grundz wrote:
How many pounds do you have?

I'm estimating 50

http://smg.photobucket.com/user/GRSL/li ... %20Uploads
is, I dont know, maybe a quarter of it?

Keep in mind that sprue weight is dead weight.