Recently I was contacted by a couple people about pricing some bobbleheads they were looking to sell. This came out of left field, ya know...much like Delmon Young played the position, never knew what you were walking into! Crap, that's 2 Delmon Young references in consecutive blog posts, pretty sure I've met that quota for...ever. Anyway, back to the story.
After reading the email, I instantly knew I was going to help if our schedules lined up. As I've wrote about several times, simply basing everything off eBay is a huge frustration of mine and the seller probably won't sell too much. Luckily the sellers were motivated and completely understood the eBay vs. local idea. I believe they had roughly 60 some bobbleheads, ranging widely over the past 10-15 years of giveaways and retails. We met after several emails and I went thru everything they had and priced them out fairly (both for them and whoever was going to buy them). That's important to me, they asked for my help, so I certainly wanted to be fair to them. But part of being fair to them was pricing the bobbleheads at a value that would sell which leaves a fairly small sweet spot.
Shortly after I provided the help I received a thank you note saying that my "professional eye" was a lifesaver and they were so incredibly happy and gracious that I gave them my time. In all honesty, it was totally my pleasure to help them. I'd do that for most anyone. It's fun looking at bobbleheads, maybe I'd see one that I didn't have, maybe I'd look at a bunch of common ones, no matter what I'll always try to help, especially since I have that "professional eye!"
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