"Value of primed miniatures up for sale" Topic

I am always disappointed by how much people are willing to pay for a pack of miniatures put up for sale by a private part. If you offer an opened pack of primed miniatures how much should you reasonably expect to get for it if you put it up sor sale?

20% of the original purchase price
30% of the original purchase price
40% of the original purchase price
50% of the original purchase price
60% of the original purchase price
70% of the original purchase price
80% of the original purchase price
90% of the original purchase price
100% of the original purchase price

50% of the original purchase price

40% the most. Basic wholesale price….

What you can get for it

75% of original, unless rare high demand like Battlesystem minis.

They are worth exactly what someone will pay for them. No more, no less.

What the market will bear. I put an assembled and primed 40k Vanquisher on eBay a few years and nearly made the retail cost of the model back. Guess somebody wanted a ready to paint model instead of assembling it.

I personally am always disappointed by how much a seller of used miniatures thinks he should get. The conversations verge on the surreal sometimes.

Primed miniatures are a worse value than unpainted because the buyer can't trust the priming quality, and in many cases they are chipped and the buyer has to reprime anyway, and may strip first. So they represent additional labor and uncertainty. Also since the packaging is not available, there is some worry that a bit or part may be missing.

I would say if you think of them as being worth half what a new unopened miniature is, you won't be too far off. You could hold out for a long sale, looking for that buyer who feels your minis will save him priming and assembly time. But that is more certain in person, and even then won't apply to everybody.

(See my post on your topic about unopened miniatures for the price reasoning.)

So for a long sale, 70% online, 75% in person. For a quick sale though, 25% online / 30% in person.