Manchester United Programmes 1992 onwards

[Dan Dagger]

Guys,

Any help in this would be greatly appreciated. I have been trying to sell my collection of home programmes for the last 6 months or so and to be honest im struggling. You make 1 sale in 3 on ebay, is the market generally down or are United home programmes so popular now that there is no market for these?

Shall i just chuck them in the dustbin?

[grantham]

Combination of things I would say:

market is down
United are the most common programmes of all
only one season in the last 20 have any value (even they have dropped off)

My advice, stick them somewhere safe and wait for a recovery in prices

[Auchinleckian]

Doubt there's ever going to be a recovery in modern programme prices for general league and cup games. Don't forget United will produce a huge amount of programmes for each home game (is it based on about 80% of the attendance Leslie?) so you're going to keep a few hundred programmes in lot of space for basically no reason at all. Don't throw them in the dustbin, see if anyone'll buy them as a job lot on ebay - problem there will be postage costs, but you never know.

[Jake]

As Auchinleckian says, an Ebay job lot is probably your best option with a ridiculously low starting price to tease in the bidders. Maybe specify pick-up only on it or let the buyer arrange a courier.

[goonerboy]

Another option is contact the footballsportsauctions folks and put them into one of their auctions as one or two job lots with an instruction to sell ie no reserve. Whatever you make will be more than if you chucked them in bin and attendees at the auction can potentially take them away that day (assuming came by car) without the need for expensive post.

If you put them on ebay as large lots I suggest you investigate the cheapest parcel company you can find so as to minimise the impact of p&p being prohibitive. Check out www.Parcel2Go.com

[paulo]

1 in 3 sales is pretty decent. I always have about 400-500 items on ebay each time a free listing day comes around and if I get away 15-20 items I am fairly pleased.

I normally just replace the items sold with another 20 or 30 and keep it rolling. Not going to get rich but the five massive boxes of programmes in my loft have halved.

[abfootballprogrammes]

I'd hate the tax man to catch up with you Paolo