Selling Large Amounts of Items Advice

[crowbb]

A relative with a large collection of sports memorabilia passed away and I have been charged by the executor of the will with selling it off. I know the market is in the toilet, but he does have a lot of serious stuff like signed uniforms with COA, bats, cards that are signed and low production numbers including 1/1, 1/2, 1/60 stuff like that. Much of this stuff is of big name players. Even at fraction of book values I expect the amount of money coming in for this stuff to be a large number.

My question isn't really how to unload this stuff but the ramifications of me going from a mostly buyer and extremely rare seller on eBay to selling thousands of items. Amazon is an option too but I have never sold anything there.

I use Paypal regularly as well but again I'm mostly a buyer and have never sold large amount of items in a short time period.

I plan to look through the selling sections of all 3 but I know a lot of people here sell often and might have some hard learned lessons on things to do/not do. Mostly I'm looking for info on not screwing up my eBay/Amazon/Paypal accounts as I plan to use my existing eBay account to deal with this. The Paypal money will go into a new bank account created for this purpose, however.

I know very little about caps on selling and stuff like that. Any help/advice will be greatly appreciated.

 

[preston181]

Do you have the knowledge to properly appraise the items?

Personally, I'd have the items appraised, and sell them at a collector's auction, in the real world, and not on eBay. You not only won't have to photograph and list thousands of items, you won't have to deal with the logistics of micromanaging the whole deal with questions, auction times, and the costly shipping expenses. You'll also likely get more serious collectors bidding on the items in a real world auction, and less of a risk of someone trying to rip you off.

Just my opinion...

 

[crowbb]

He would continuously research and price his stuff so I'm not too worried about that, except for the really unique 1/1 stuff and the like that even he couldn't find a value of so me finding it is not likely. Shipping is paid by the buyer so again not really worried.

The stuff I am worried about is do I need some kind of special upgraded account to sell more, and stuff like that. I didn't know that the $20,000 tax rule that just went into effect in January includes things like eBay's seller fees until I researched it today. With the sheer amount of high dollar items I'm looking that that is a realistic concern and I'll have to keep careful records.