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Hello Rene, I’m right up the road from you in Durham and a photographer as well. I would think that the best way to realize the maximum profit from your collection would be to offer it for sale to a stock agency. The bar is pretty high, though. They have quality standards and typically need to know you have ownership of the images, but if they have historical value there may be some wiggle room there. If you can’t get a stock agency interested, then yes, an auction house that deals in collections of images would be your next best source.
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Thanks Sonia and Ryanne. I seriously wasted about an hour looking for that toady. I don’t think I would have ever found it if you hadn’t pointed me straight to it. Seems like a pretty important option to be so buried. Makes me wonder how many people just say screw it and waste a label every time.
Jay, Yes, after I set this second store up I heard you your arguments against it on the podcast, and I agree with your main point about it not being a good hedge against suspension. That was one of the original reasons, the other was that I feel I’ve built a pretty good brand up over the years focusing on vintage cameras and clothes. When I began selling in earnest about six months ago I did not limit myself to just the quality vintage items. I’ll sell anything now, but I really did feel it cheapened the brand, so I wanted to have a separate store to list all the “junk.” I disagree with you a little that people only shop the search. I have saved stores for camera equipment, like Blue Moon in Portland, that I return to again and again and I will just browse their listings and buy a few things at once. I trust them and save on shipping. Same goes for a few trusted book sellers. I think you might be undervaluing the idea of an Ebay store as a brand. But I definitely have come around to your point about it not being a hedge against store suspension, and yes it is a little inefficient to have two. I’ll re-evaluate after this year.
Thanks for the reply.
