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He started on the Andy Griffith show in the early 1960’s with sporadic appearances, then was spun off onto his own show. He also did the Carol Burnett show and others.
Without seeing everything and doing the research I wouldn’t know what to price it at. Personally, I’d probably break it up into groups. One group might be the items directly related to this particular collector.
Good Luck..
I wouldn’t worry too much about the stalker aspect. I imagine celebrities generally don’t write back to or have breakfast with stalkers. It sounds like the relationship was on a friendly level and possibly more.
It also sounds like all the parties involved are long deceased. I’d sell it all. How many listings you create depends on how you want to group them. I would keep the personal related items (photos and letters) together.
I think you’ve found a gold mine with great provenance. Someone somewhere is going to be very happy to buy this stuff from you.
You’ve got the Andy Griffith Connection, the Gomer Pyle connection, the singer connection and of course the gay celebrity connection.
If I’d purchased it, I’d be a very happy guy. Don’t be surprised if you get some interesting questions once you list it. people will want to know if you’d ever met him etc..
FYI- If you are uncomfortable selling any of it, just send those items to me and I’ll happily pay the postage.
Good Luck with it..
Wow.. you had to look him up.. wow. I must be getting old.
You’ve got to see him on the old Andy Griffith Mayberry Episodes. Way too funny.
I would think of that as a pipeline..
The bigger question is, how much time do you want to put into it? I enjoy the old movies and Hollywood celebrities, so it would be a lot of fun for me. Sure it’s long tail, but the really good stuff generally is. Also the quantity of listings will bring the Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle) fan traffic to your store.
If he had one Superfan, I’m sure there are others.
Good Luck
I was at an Estate sale on the last day over a year ago and filled up a large box (paid $20) with really nice pillow cases, some sheets and lots of fabrics. It turns out I couldn’t identify most of the stuff, but some of the fabrics were labeled. After being listed over a year, I made a couple of sales.
I took a best offer of $85 for this. https://www.ebay.com/itm/132659363225
This sold for $49.98 https://www.ebay.com/itm/142813601045
I have a few more items still listed.
I just don’t list multiples of an item anymore, unless they are light enough that I won’t get burned on the shipping (Like some of my shirts). Once a sale is made, I just sell similar to keep the listing up.
If it’s something I think they may want to buy multiples of, I’ll either create a listing including more than one, or I’ll note in the listings that I have multiples and the buyer can contact me for more.
Once in a while, I still get burned, but not too bad. Generally, if someone buys multiples, I’m so happy for the sale, that I’m willing to eat some shipping.
The Ebay combined shipping calculator, just makes no sense for me.
Let me guess.. they bought inexpensive items…
At this point it becomes an exercise in appeasing an unreasonable buyer. Since the buyer, seems to have all the power these days, I would give them a refund and say something nice to them. You can’t fix whatever is really going wrong in their lives. It makes sense to appease them and don’t engage unnecessarily.
My favorite strategy for getting over it is remembering all the good buyers who pay full price and leave me great feedback.
Good Luck.
Did you know that you can configure your store to be divided into Ebay categories?
In certain situations, it should make your store easier to navigate for your customers.
Just go in to edit your store and change the setting. Later, you can always change it back if you feel your own categories are better.
Sorry for Hijacking the thread, but I figured you’d read this Sigilini..
Joe
Good for you Julie.
A lot of these employers don’t know how to deal with someone who doesn’t need their job or their money.
As Mark says, they may offer you a sweetheart deal to stay.. Whether you do or not, is entirely up to you.
Being debt free is cool.. very cool.
If you do create an identical canned feedback message, don’t forget to include the name of your store in the feedback… It’s free advertising to anyone who happens to read it.
Good Luck..
It works on Firefox and Opera, so I guess it’s just Chrome. I don’t use Internet Explorer and Safari stopped working on my Apple years ago.
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