Chip,
I would suggest that the answer to your question lies in what your
goal is. If your goal is to empty out the barn and make the most money
off of the sale of parts taking as long as necessary to do this than
using ebay or publishing an inventory and asking price would be the way
to go as you stated in option 3.
If you just wanted to get rid of them as soon as possible while making
whatever you could get then I would choose option 1. Although in my
opinion unless you had a very active TR community I would be surprised
if you could bring together a large enough gathering of interested
parties to get rid of your inventory at decent prices.
A few listers recently have posted a simple but accurately described
inventory of available parts and prices on this list and within a
matter of days they have dwindled their supply of parts substantially.
If your interest is in getting the parts into the hands of enthusiasts
at a decent but maybe not top dollar price then that approach might
work.
I dont recall who offered some parts for sale recently but they set up
a web site that had pics and prices and policies clearly listed. It
sounds as though you have some large items that you might not want to
ship so maybe a combination of the different ideas you have suggested
might work.
Just my two cents. I am sure others will have other suggestions as
well.
Aaron
Aaron Cropley
71 TR6 (Throttle Body Injection!)
http://www.triumphowners.com/108
Topsham, Maine
-----Original Message-----
From: Chip19474@aol.com
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Sent: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:45:36 EDT
Subject: Parts Barn Sale Questions
List,
We've finally realized that in our lifetime (and probably for the next
2
generations as well), we will never use 90% of the inventory of parts
we have in
the barn. So, it's time to think about finding new homes for this
"stuff"
and turning the barn into some sort of profitable venture . Has anyone
had
experience first hand or via a friend or acquantaince with selling a
standard
size barn full of parts? Specifically, here's some directed questions:
1) Should we hire an auctioner and sell all of the contents at a 2 or
3 day
on-site auction?
2) Should we chunk the parts into major categories like transmissions,
engines, body sheet metal, frames, etc and sell the chunked units
either via
auction, Ebay, VTR Ad, etc?
3) Should we separate and condense all of the parts by Triumph model
i.e.,
make a "pile" of anything related to TR2 through TR3B, anything
related to TR4
through TR250, anything Spitfire, etc., and sell via auction, Ebay,
VTR Ad,
etc?
Thanks for your thoughts,
Chip Krout
Triumph Rescue
Bally, PA
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