If you read my reply just before yours it says I gave all my extra little pages to a young car builder in the Lead Kings Car Club. I felt giving them to a young car builder was better than me sitting on them waiting for a sale.
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I am just curious if there is still a market for car magizines.I have probably got a thousand or more. There are many different titles ,all the big ones and some very old obscure titles as well .There are even stacks of old auto traders and other pre internet cars and parts.So the question is is there still value in them,is there still an interest or is everything on line now.I have been taking some to the vareous antique car ones to retirement homes,but they can only use so many.I would like to sell them but what is the going rate .If there is an interest I will make invintory and list it . Ed
Cant hurt...Back in the mid 90s, i used to sell them on eBay. I had Hot Rod, Car Craft anf Pop Hotrodding from the early 60s to the 80s...some 1950s too. I sold most of the 50s-mid 70s at decent prices. Got about $1500 all told. The late 70s and 80s didnt seem to sell at that time....might now, I still have them.
If you want them sold, I agree that eBay is your best bet. Gives you access to a huge market and with it being an auction ... you can't help but get the best price. If you want to see what old car magazines are going for on eBay, us the "view completed auctions" so you can see what the true final selling price was. I'd personally sell them as singles and not batch them off in groups.
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80,s mags sell for 50 cents to a buck. Depends on the topic. Don't see them too much anymore cause they are pricey. $6.99 and up. Good for when u are at camp and there is no Internet connection. Old autos still puts out a newspaper though. Pretty good read. Then you can use it to start the wood stove. Subscription is reasonable and it's published every two weeks with all the swap meets and shows for the summer. Best of all it is mostly Canadian content
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I have a flea market booth and have vended all over Ontario. To put it as honest as possible there is no real market for them. You can try Ebay but lots of work for little return. The last bunch of double little pages I had I gave to Ricky Dunn the guy with the chopped 53 Chevy in the LEAD KINGS.
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This is my booth at the MORRISBURG Ont flea market. Iam lucky to sell two or three magazines a week at $2.00 each usually 3 for 5 bucks. Thats my reality every Sunday.
This is my booth at the MORRISBURG Ont flea market. Iam lucky to sell two or three magazines a week at $2.00 each usually 3 for 5 bucks. Thats my reality every Sunday.
So, how and why do you continue to rent a booth and spend your time there every week? I'm not being a smartass, just wondering what the point is if you are at a finacial loss weekly?
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I'm a packrat - still have a bunch of mags and model car kits from my teen years. Anyone remember the automotive equivalent to Easyriders mag called Autobuff? (topless models with some layouts) Wonder if they are worth anything? I have every issue printed and haven't opened one of those for almost 30 years
And just before the smart remarks happen, NO the pages are not stuck together.
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This is my booth at the MORRISBURG Ont flea market. Iam lucky to sell two or three magazines a week at $2.00 each usually 3 for 5 bucks. Thats my reality every Sunday.
So, how and why do you continue to rent a booth and spend your time there every week? I'm not being a smartass, just wondering what the point is if you are at a finacial loss weekly?
I have way to much stuff not just car magazines. I make a little bit of money (not much) but it is fun to get out a meet people over the winter months. Kind of like going to a car show in the summer knowing your never going to win anything. I GET BORED I dont have a garage and it kills me every time I burn hundreds of old magazines in the burn barrel. Yes I have had car magazine bon fires. A small finacial loss is still cheaper than going to the movies once a week or a N.H.L. hockey game. I took a large loss going to the shows at Shannonville. We had alot of fun doing it so is it really a loss?
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I am just curious if there is still a market for car magizines.I have probably got a thousand or more. There are many different titles ,all the big ones and some very old obscure titles as well .There are even stacks of old auto traders and other pre internet cars and parts.So the question is is there still value in them,is there still an interest or is everything on line now.I have been taking some to the vareous antique car ones to retirement homes,but they can only use so many.I would like to sell them but what is the going rate .If there is an interest I will make invintory and list it . Ed
i was actually going to say, i know this guy named ed white, im sure he would be interested, but i see now who posted the thread hahahaha!
This is my booth at the MORRISBURG Ont flea market. Iam lucky to sell two or three magazines a week at $2.00 each usually 3 for 5 bucks. Thats my reality every Sunday.
wow and i thought i was keeping it extra real, thats an impressive collection and like pro style display, no milk crates full of magazines there(pay attention Ed)
The Milk krates are holding up the table. I use crates for transport and storage only. Covers get ripped off way to easy if people try to pull an issue out from the middle of a crate.
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I sold about a thousand 20 years ago ,but it seems no-one wants to buy now. Of course, that might be because the ones I have are a lot newer than the ones I sold. My daughter is a high school teacher so I have her take them to school and give them to the auto shop teacher - the kids seems to enjoy them and it might build some interest for Hot Rods in our youngest generation.
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Ah, something I know about! I've been selling car magazines and assorted automotive ephemera on eBay since 1999. I've sold car magazines mostly and I ask $5.50 for a 1950s mag, $4.50 for a 1960s mag, $3.50 for a 1970s mag and $2.50 for any mag from the 1980s or newer. I list 80 or more items at a time and usually sell 30 to 40 of them, with many getting multiple bids and therefore selling for more than my initial asking price. Even the early 2000 mags sell well but the 1980s seem to be hot right now. I started selling off my collection of 10,000 plus magazines (plus a lot of books and specialty publications) because my house was starting to look like a library, and it is funding the building of my hot rod. All told I've made a little more than $15,000 and I am not half way through yet. I average $8.09 each, I keep records. Some sell for their opening bid and some have sold for just over $80, but it works out to $8.09 each. There is a trick to doing this. Excellent item descriptions, listing on eBay.com not the Canadian site, and mostly avoiding Canada Post. When I started Canada Post they had a book rate, then they eliminated that, then the rates kept going up and about 2 1/2 years ago I could no longer compete with the US sellers. Anything over 250g costs about $7.50 to ship to any US buyer, where most of my customers are from, and it costs no more than $3.50 using USPS. An extra $4 shipping on a $5 mag means "no sale". I live in Niagara so I just said to heck with it and cross the border, (fill out proper forms, present invoices and pay $10.75 fee, thank you) and ship via USPS. I even ship the heavier items that have to go to a Canadian address via USPS because believe it or not it ends up much cheaper to ship to Canada using USPS than to use Canada Post and stay within Canada! Unless it is less than 500g. If you want you can check out my auctions on eBay.com, I list on the last Saturday of each month, at the top right click "advanced" beside "search", in the items box on the left click "by seller" and where it says "enter seller's user i.d." type "avro2". Be glad to help any other eBay sellers with advice.
I got them with a bunch of old 1940's Mechanix Illustrated magazines, Back in the day when you could buy plans for a hovercraft, helcopter, one of the ass shaking exercisers for your wife, a .22cal Pistol or skies for your trackor...... all from a magazine! The ads are hilarious and the point of view of the writers is pretty funny and way too optomistic of the future. Remember? We were supposed to be flying around in personal space ships already! They also took way too much poetic license and exagerated the truth in advertisements to the point of being outright LIARS. Funny stuff in MHO!
If anyone wnats me to get them some of these old magazines and are willing to pick them up, let me know they go for $1 or $2/box!
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Looks like Ebay is the way to go to cash in. Not for me I like to meet and talk to the people I sell to its the most fun part for me not all about money. Thats why im a LOSER.
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Agree with Atomsplitter about the old ads, many predictions of the future even before 2000 are such stupidness, and wildly exagerated by the writers. I suppose it sold the magazines though. I have around 150 old Pop mechanics back to 1935, the ads then and the prices are interesting reading as this was into the depression era. Funny reading with articles on "Make Do" cobbling things up to keep using them till they just wore out.
Ya it was a differen't time .Now they accept the fact that things don't and when they brek they throw them away and buy a cheap replacement.No one understands "Make Do" anymore. Ed
