Football Programmes Centre

martino · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2014 12:32 pm Post subject: Re: Brocks

treble99 wrote:

mustard68 wrote:

"they outbid two dealers.."

what makes you think they were dealers?

Well they stopped at dealer sort of levels,if you bear in mind
1 They might not have noticed the 1937 Charity Shield
2 They might not have noticed the City v Manchester United in the Lancs cup that was not noted

My valuation of full retail of possibly £25k is obviously only an opinion
Other values that have been put to me are nearer £23k

At an underbidder of £14500 plus commission you are a buyer at almost £17k
As a dealer then a profit of £6-9k represents 25 to 35% which is fair enough
After that the margins start to become tight for something that you are undoubtably going to have to carry a portion of for a fair time as after the initial rush tehre will be some dead meat

That is the basis on my assuming it was a dealer or two on the internet.

It could of course have been a collector with a budget of around £15k to spend which is fair enough or possibly a collector who got his valuation wrong
It does however feel like dealer bids at a fair level

Total outlay will be around 20K - see my earlier post.

So not a lot of margin for error if the 23 to 25K value turns out to be a bit optimistic.

Baltimore · Joined: 08 Feb 2013 Posts: 371 Location: France

Dear Barry,

Thanks for injecting some humour & spice into the debate!

Boing....boing!

BAZZABAGGIES · Joined: 07 Jan 2011 Posts: 1918

Thank you.. Brothers come in handy Very Happy

martino · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 11:21 am Post subject:

So was it the same buyer who paid £650 plus commission for the 1953 to 1962 large collection of "Manchester City home and away programmes" at Runcorn yesterday? A comprehensive collection including loads of Reserves.

Amongst it, and not detailed, were a number of Manchester United early 50's programmes including one from The Cliff in very good condition, a few tickets tucked away in programmes and a few other gems.

treble99 · Joined: 31 May 2010 Posts: 998 Location: manchester

martino wrote:

So was it the same buyer who paid £650 plus commission for the 1953 to 1962 large collection of "Manchester City home and away programmes" at Runcorn yesterday? A comprehensive collection including loads of Reserves.

Amongst it, and not detailed, were a number of Manchester United early 50's programmes including one from The Cliff in very good condition, a few tickets tucked away in programmes and a few other gems.

maybe it was a dealer

Those programmes at the Cliff are very rare