Need to sell sound equipment that was my father-in-law's who is now in a home.

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I need some help. My wife and I need to sell my father-in-law's sound equipment. I don't know anything about this equipment. How do I price the items and where can I sell them?
 
Start by searching each make/model. Check the "shopping" option once you've done a Google search to see what the asking price is for certain products. For smaller items that are easily shipped, check the completed sales on ebay.
 
+1. Trying to be helpful, not pedantic, but with eBay be sure to filter by 'sold' then manually go back an uncheck 'completed' (they auto-check it for you).
I think completed shows finished auctions with no bids, which then shows often misleading starting prices that no one ever paid.

If you have a list of names that you want to post here, feel free.
Probably better getting public input than one on one. ;)
 
Right, sold rather than completed. I don't do it often enough to remember it that precisely.
 
Yeah...post some of the items with brand/model that you're trying to price/sell...you might get some quick answers for what you have.
 
You might also look on Reverb.com. You can look at sold items, and many times it has a graph of historically sold prices.
 
It could be better to see if any of his friends were musician types and let them do this. So much sound kit is publicly worthless despite being expensive to buy, but some bits and pieces are collectors items. I've told my son he must sell my guitar collection for their real prices and not what I told my wife I paid! Second best is the list here, it will be interesting though because of geographic differences. I'd love to see the list to see if the UK prices follow US? Maybe something is common and therefore cheap in the US but UK Ebay would get far more?
 
rob aylestone said:
It could be better to see if any of his friends were musician types and let them do this.
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+1 to that. I was once asked to handle sale of audio gear that would other wise have gone through auction house-clearance.
The family didn't get the impression that the masses of old unknown-condition audio gear in that house would do well at auction, and thought that someone with specialist knowledge would do better.
The fact that I was able to test everything, maintain/repair if necessary, and sell as 'tested and working - see video' made a huge difference to final values.

Depending what you have, it could really be worth getting a range of gear-head opinions and, if possible, some testing.
 
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