Prop/model valuing?

CJ007Goldeneye

Does anyone know of a site that is able to tell you how much stuff is worth? Good to see how some of the stuff i've accumulated, over the years is getting more than i paid or not. Also like to note it all down incase i need to make a quick buck!

Gadget Meister

Craig, the easy and possibly facetious answer is that it is worth what someone is willing to pay at a particular moment in time. As time changes so do 'values', especially in the specialised field we frequent. I've had Moonraker/Star Wars/Aliens headsets go for as little as £90 and as much as £180, this for identical condition items. So knowing that, what value would you put on those headsets? The piece of information not given is the price I paid for them, which is what will ultimately decide if you believe you got value for money. As with liquidating any collection there will be swings and roundabouts and as long as you accept this when or if you decide to sell you will not be disappointed.

minigeff

Sit down please CJ (parp). Sorry CJ, defunct chair.

Just to reiterate Andy's comments, I was watching quite a rare item on ebay recently. I got outbid at the last second (bastard snipers) and the bidding ended at 20 quid. Never mind I thought, I'll wait it out for the next one to come along. 2 days later another had been put up for auction, and with an hour left it was at £91

Sometimes it's luck of the draw, others it depends on who you're dealing with and their knowledge of what they're attempting to buy.

With so many variables involved it literally is a case of 'how long is a piece of string?'

As for flogging stuff for capital, I have never sold any of my own personal collection. Many of the pieces I own are prototypes, 1st offs or very limited in number. Most, if not all of it is unreplaceable so I'd sell a kidney before putting any of it up for sale. Bear in mind what you sell for £20 might cost you £91 to buy back later if you have a change of heart.

MG -{

Gadget Meister

They can have my collection when they pry it from my cold dead fingers, and just before anyone gets any ideas, the other half has a shotgun ticket as well and she's not a bad shot -{

minigeff

My Missus is a dab hand at thermite mixing.

Explains little Em's vaporising nappy scorchers anyway.

Bond Collectors' Weekends

I/we are happy to help, I'm sure, if you want to post photos/descriptions of individual items.

dailo007

Totally agree, don't sell during the sales and prices go up at Christmas and when there's a movie either out or about.

It's easier to get a broad idea if the items you have are widely available and traded on a regular basis but for rarer and limited edition items that becomes far harder. Ignore BuyItNow prices on eBay, but watch for auctioned items with multiple bidders.

Specialist sellers such as Vectis have their place as do static and online auction houses and specialist fairs, but remember up to 30% of your value will go on seller fees etc.

Depending on what you have asking the AJB community isn't a bad starting point, but if the collection is large sometimes the bigger auction houses in London will be able to give you a valuation by their Inhouse specialist.

Ultimately the value is only what someone is prepared to pay at the time you're selling it. I have a whole host of stuff I would let go for the right price tomorrow (why would I want to keep 25+ Corgi 261's forever!) but also many items I'd say are priceless, that I'd never sell and will hopefully be passed on through my family for the next million years, but ultimately I'm sure that at some stage there would be a breaking point!

CJ007Goldeneye

Many thanks chaps, i will put up a list of my entire collection that i have made for my records. There must be a site on the net where you can type in what you got and it gives you an estimate of what to expect. Like on these middle of the day antique shows?

CJ007Goldeneye

Well atleast some of it lol note the prices by some of them is what i bought them for...

1/43 minichamps-1750/3007-DB5&DBS collection
Orc overseer bust, High elven bust, The arms of gimli-1811/2500, Saurons mace-2207/3500, Tower of baradur miniature-Danbury mint
Count Dooku bust-1784/2500-£40, (as well as his .45 lightsaber) Jenga fett bust-3071/9000-£40,
T4-T-600 bust-1221/3000-£50, Terminator factory T-700 1/6th diorama, T3-T-850 bust-2625/3000
sideshow 12" jack sparrow
Halo 3 master chief-gentle giant-3485/5000-£35
1/43 scale deloreon pt1-minichamps-0248/5003
the dark knight Joker bust-3059/6000
1/6th scale Hudson-£50, 1/72nd 01 Dropship and APC

Gadget Meister

And as I've already shown, and if you look at any auction catalogue along with the final amounts realised, estimates are literally just that and you would probably get a similar result if you estimated the collection yourself. As you know the most prolific auction house with regard to Bond memorabilia, props and artefacts is Christies. Even though they have in house experts and experienced Bond values, their estimates are often wildly wide of the mark, low and high. If you have a genuine authenticated Picasso, estimating is fairly easy with background knowledge and probably quite accurate, although you can never predict the variations on the day. On the other hand, a unique Bond prop, the TB Top Time for example, where do you start? Well they did set an estimate and it was a fair way out on the hammer. Even without the Bond connection I would have thought I'd won the lottery to pick up a Breitling Top Time for £25. So what sounds like an easy question isn't. I do remember on Dragon's Den a few years ago someone was trying to put together a web site in exactly the way you surmise, and to charge for the service. The idea was shot down by the Dragons as it would open the way for claims for incorrect valuations.

Just seen your list, one line of Bond DB5s and the rest is SciFi, I'd try RPF Craig, but they'll probably maul you. From what you said at the start I thought it was all Bond, prob not many takers here for the geek stuff

Higgins

CJ007Goldeneye wrote:

Many thanks chaps, i will put up a list of my entire collection that i have made for my records. There must be a site on the net where you can type in what you got and it gives you an estimate of what to expect. Like on these middle of the day antique shows?

CJ, there is no such list!

Others already told you that prices depend on many factors and variables.
Sometimes, it's just 2 people hunting for the same item that let prices explode.

Offering them at the wrong place, season, time, economic situation will result in disappointing prices for you but bargains for the buyer -{

Even auction houses sell item z 1 week for price x and the other week for price xxx

CJ007Goldeneye

'Geek stuff' really Andy liking Bond the way we do already makes us all geeky! Thanks for your help anyways. I've put my list up so if anyone could tell me what they think any of its worth (a best estimate). There must be others on here maybe hiding in the closet that have some of my stuff, and would like to know of the value!

dailo007

Your Minichamps probably 50-60 quid, maybe a little more with a fair wind, the rest of the list appears to be in some strange foreign language!

minigeff

Oh dear, we're going round in circles again.

Like Andy said at the start, something is only worth as much as what someone is willing to pay for it. Ende. It's that simple.

There isn't, won't be and never has been a magical biblical list of what everything is worth.

Like I said, what can sell for 20 quid one day can sell for 90 quid the next. That's life, that's human nature. And besides CJ (parp) what anyone tells you here and now will be out dated info by the time you come to sell anything.

minigeff

Ere CJ (parp) this'll bake ya noodle!

The DB5 collection mags, total RRP of over £600, I saw a collection missing parts 84 & 85 go for £190, but a complete built model fetch £6000 at AML's auction!!

Still think that biblical 'ere what's this wurf guv?' list is a goer? )

texas007

Forget about values, the values are what it is to you, you paid for the pleasure of ownership and that's it. These are just collectible and are not necessities. Being excesses it really can be any values people are willing to waste their money on. After all, they don't have to buy these to survive.