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So far my sales are normal for summer, but I just removed “free returns” this afternoon so we’ll see what effect (if any) that has on my sales going forward.
So true! I’ve seen so many “collections” just tossed in curb piles around here when someone dies. I’m not really into the collectibles market in general, so unless someone else takes them, they’re going to the dump. Even the thrift stores around here don’t generally want huge collections of spoons, figurines, holiday ceramic houses, etc. They take up a lot of space and just don’t sell. I’m trying to think if I “collect” anything, and I really don’t unless you count toys that my kids are into at the moment.
I agree that selling this collection in a way honors the collector as well as Jim Nabors. She saved the stuff all these years, so I’m sure she’d be glad to know that it didn’t end up at the dump.
Thanks Kate! I agree with you 🙂 To think about listing the items individually is daunting…there are so many. However, I do think I’d make more, especially if I put them all up at once. As much as I want to do a lot, there is no good way to show everything in 12 photos. Also, there is the risk that someone buys it and puts in the effort to list individually. I think I’d better put in the effort and at least make smaller lots (such as candids, signed photos, ticket stubs, playbills, etc).
I think somewhere this fan is smiling knowing her “archive of super-fandom” isn’t going to landfill but will end up with people who also love Jim Nabors 🙂
Thanks Steve! I’m going through the candids, and I’m going to fully reverse course here. Every picture is from a meet-and-greet, including the breakfast. The one pic of a guy eating at breakfast isn’t even actually of him (he was wearing something else at the breakfast from this guy), but appears to be to capture the view of the ocean from the table where they were eating with him. They didn’t stalk him…he was actively meeting his older-lady fanbase at that breakfast. I think I made some assumptions that were incorrect because my gut feeling was that this was a really weird lot. I’ve never written to a celebrity or wanted to meet one badly enough to go to a meet-and-greet, so I couldn’t relate.
There are loads of other meet-and-greet pics from other places too. What I see in these pics are a couple of older women having the time of their lives, and an older celeb who is eating it up 🙂 He seemed to love to bring the older ladies up on stage…LOTS of pics of him doing that with tons of older lady fans in this lot. Maybe he had a gaggle of old lady fans who followed him to concerts?
Even though I had to google this guy to figure out who he was, I think I’m a fan now lol!! He seems to have a warm, infectious personality that is well-captured in these photos. The one downside is that all of these photos were taken back in the day when you clicked and then hoped you got a good pic. Quite a few candids are blurry, but I’m including them anyways.
I think So Cal Joe is correct that I should make several lots, but I can’t really decide how to split it up. I’d hate to sell it and have someone do that with it though because I was too lazy.
The candids of him were him singing at his Hawaii concerts and eating at a restaurant. Maybe I was incorrect in calling them “stalkery” initially as he’s in public in every one and none are taken from a distance with a telephoto lens or anything 😉 I’m not sure that a restaurant is really personal space as he’s in public, but it isn’t something I’d do either as that feels weird to me. I guess he was unbothered if he sat down and ate with them though. Anything that looks weird to me won’t make the lot for sure though.
I’ve decided to sell it as a lot, mostly because of So Cal Joe’s post above. I think he’s correct that this is a great lot with great provinance 🙂
Sorry to ask a dumb question, but was Gomer Pile on the Andy Griffith show or was it a show unto itself? What would you price the lot at? You are probably correct that he wouldn’t have breakfast with a true stalker. Maybe my friend was right that this lady was a “groupie”.
Yeah my friend was going through the bin with me and she was like “this lady was a groupie” and I was like “more like a superfan at best”. We both saw it differently, so maybe he and his secretary did too as they actually met this lady in person on numerous occasions. Like you said, it was a different time. Maybe this wasn’t that weird to him, maybe it just comes with the territory of being famous. Who knows.
One thing I can say for sure is that this celeb and by extension his personal secretary were very gracious people.
I don’t know that I have any set ratio, but I try to buy as cheaply as possible (like a dollar or less per item) and then go from there. I mostly sell hats which I get from the goodwill bins for ~$.25 each and sell for around $11-$15 each on average. I do free shipping which works out to around $3 per hat. It’s still a very good return in my opinion even though it’s a lot of low dollar sales as opposed to fewer high-dollar sales.
Well, some things absolutely had to be him (the menus signed at the breakfast they had with him for example). All of the signatures look alike, so I doubt anyone forged his name for him. His secretary definitely responded to some of the correspondence but she signed it as such. It looks like they went to that breakfast around the time they were in Hawaii for all of those shows, and there are loads of pics of the super-fan and her mom with Jim Nabors in there too.
The weird thing is that in one of the letters, the secretary was encouraging the super-fan to move to Hawaii. I think she and Jim Nabors were very gracious people and didn’t perceive this with the weirdness that I do.
You know, I didn’t really think about it as LGBT interest, but you are right! It really could be considered as such. And yes, the letters are the provinance for authentification for sure. I googled it, and he doesn’t seem to ever have had any reported stalkers. It seems like she was just a very enthusiastic fan, and he was quite gracious in response. Stuff like this would weird ME out, but perhaps it just comes with the territory when a person is a public figure?
Would you include the signed pics of him with the fan and her mom too? That seems so personal to me, although it clearly seems like all in the pics are deceased.
It’s funny, but I have no earthly idea how these bins ended up in FL. It doesn’t seem like the superfan ever lived here, although I could be wrong.
I doubt it, since he (or his secretary) kept responding to her letters. I agree with you, sell the autographed stuff and leave her weird letters and such out of it. In some cases, he autographed those letters and sent them back, but I think I’ll just toss those.
What about authentication? Clearly I know these are real since they all came from the same lot and she clearly wrote to this guy a ton of times (and he wrote back). Also, what about the candid photos? Some are of him in some sort of concert, and some are of him just doing regular things like eating at a restaurant. Some of his autographed photos have what I assume is the super-fan and her mother in them. Should I toss those too? This is the weirdest lot of stuff I’ve ever considered listing on Ebay lol.
LOL!! I’m not that young (44), and my husband definitely knew who he was when I asked him. It’s possible that I just live under a pop-culture rock 😉
Do you guys think it’s OK to sell the letters and such that identify the super-fan? I think that that’s the part that has me uncertain. As a lot I guess I’d probably put it in there, but individually I’m not sure? There are just tons of autographed pics and such that I could list individually to drive traffic…yeah I agree, if he had one super-fan he probably had more than one.
Clicking on that forum made me laugh. That’s an…interesting…thing to collect. I am going to chuck out the ones I found. Not worth the possibility that someone will do something sketchy with them.
Now if I find that 2012 Nordstroms blades of grass card, I’m selling that bad boy lol!!
The Orlando bins are crazy lol. It’s always the same crew in there, and I swear that they would elbow their own child in the face to get a pair of Nikes out of the bins. My friend and I go for the entertainment occasionally. We live on the east coast, so those are the closest decent bins anyways.
Dave Ramsey can be entertaining, and he’s toned down the religious stuff tremendously (I assume to appeal more to the mainstream?). In the past I couldn’t stomach him as he came off as really preachy, but now some of his stuff is pretty entertaining and he does seem to get through to a lot of people. I’m still partial to Suze Orman though…she’s my girl!
