I've got a lot of parts but can't sell them?

[pfeappliance]

Hey all,

I've been more of a lurker of this site, never really posted much. I have a ton of vintage appliance parts from washers, to refrigerators, to ranges. I'd like to get rid of them - so I've been posting a bunch of things on eBay, slowly but surely.

See, I used to get a lot of sales, but lately I haven't had anything. Most of these are my personal parts and do not belong to the business.

I'm wondering if I could get some help managing this eBay thing? I'm thinking I'm doing something wrong, nothing is really selling and I'm near 750 items(and I have thousands more).

Just looking for advice, folks. Thanks for any help. I've got the ebay store link shared here.

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[lorainfurniture]

Price,price, price

If you want to sell a part on eBay, you need to price your items a few pennies cheaper than the lowest price new, or used item. Sometimes (often) that involves selling it for less than what you paid for it.

People on eBay are looking for a deal. Period.

Vintage stuff that is nla and hard to find you can ask pretty good money for but keep in mind that there are very few people looking for them.

 

[pfeappliance]

prices

I've undercut the prices on appliancepartpros and a few other websites by a percentage, but ultimately still nothing.

A lot of the hard to find parts haven't had any views as well. I'm just afraid I may be missing details on my listings or keywords or something of that nature.

Appreciate the response.

 

[lorainfurniture]

Your have to undercut the prices on eBay. These cheapskates aren't looking at appliance parts pros.

Some of the vintage stuff may never sell. Some take years.

 

[DADoES]

 

I bookmarked your eBay store for reference. Parts sales depends on whether someone is looking for the item.

 

[firedome]

It's price, depends how much you really want/need to sel

sometimes you just need to cut your losses and price really aggressively, it does cost $ to hold inventory. I've bought mint KA 17 and 18 series d/w for $50 and even gotten some for free, you're in competition with that, plus shipping costs also detract from sales. Market audience for vintage parts is very small. I sold electronics on eBay for 2 decades... it always comes down to price!

 

[pfeappliance]

Thanks folks.

One thing I was thinking. I do have quite a few vintage ranges and fridges.

Frigidare SV76, from 1954 fully restored. Having a hard time finding pricing on it. Along with that is a Detroit Jewel and a large array of fully restored 1930s-40s ranges.

Unfortunately in my location there isn't much of a market for these kinds of things. I've a bunch of old wringers, washers, coke vending machines from the 60s. All kinds of things. Is there anywhere else I can go to try and sell those things aside from eBay?

If you folks here might be interested I could post pictures. Either way they're really cool.

 

[goatfarmer]

Washers, and vending machines, pictures, please. And where in Illinois are you?

 

[pfeappliance]

I'm in Decatur. About 45 minutes east of Springfield.

I'll get some pics for you in a bit.

 

[pfeappliance]

I've a few more ranges and I have some dishwashers I can't get to right now. Is there any market for late 70s-80s stuff? I have more of those than anything.

The vending machine is a vendo model h63a. All works, needs a key.

I couldn't get to the other one on the left, it's behind a bunch of other old freezers and the like.

 

[DADoES]

 

Love that KDI-17 but have nowhere to stash it.

 

[backintime]

How much for the frigidaire?

Also I bought many items from you on ebay but ran into a brick wall on some things I still need. I gave a list to a girl in your office but never heard anything back. Maybe you just didn't have what I was looking for.?

 

[super32]

WOW

I have had both of those Jenn Air's (or close variant) thru the years. Its funny i was just thinking of my last JA just a few days ago.

I also saved your Ebay page as we have a set of old Maytags and Lady Kenmores.

 

[goatfarmer]

Nice Vendo, what price range are you looking at?

 

[combo52]

Selling Newer and Older Appliance parts

Hi Aaron, I like you have 1000s of new and 10,000s good used appliance parts we would love to sell.

 

I have scaned over your Ebay listings a few times and most of your newer parts are priced WAY to high, and the cool older stuff there is just almost no demand for.

 

I sent you a note a month or so offering $20 + $7.50 shipping for a KA detergent cup [ M-79439 ] you have listed for $39.95 + $7.50 shipping, I never heard from you, if you really want to sell stuff get realistic on the pricing and work with people.

 

I would probably buy stuff from you now and in the future, but you have to keep in mind a large part of your market are folks that fix appliances for a living and we can buy the newer stuff wholesale.

 

In may 40 year + experience repairing appliances you will be very lucky to get even the orignal retail price for most old NLA parts, I would still buy the KA  DetCup you are selling but the last retail price I found for it was only $5.27, again I would still pay $27.50 including shipping, otherwise I can just fix the old cup.

 

John L.

 

[combo52]

Selling Newer and Older Appliance parts

Hi Aaron, I like you have 1000s of new and 10,000s good used appliance parts we would love to sell.

 

I have scaned over your Ebay listings a few times and most of your newer parts are priced WAY to high, and the cool older stuff there is just almost no demand for.

 

I sent you a note a month or so offering $20 + $7.50 shipping for a KA detergent cup [ M-79439 ] you have listed for $39.95 + $7.50 shipping, I never heard from you, if you really want to sell stuff get realistic on the pricing and work with people.

 

I would probably buy stuff from you now and in the future, but you have to keep in mind a large part of your market are folks that fix appliances for a living and we can buy the newer stuff wholesale.

 

In may 40 year + experience repairing appliances you will be very lucky to get even the orignal retail price for most old NLA parts, I would still buy the KA  DetCup you are selling but the last retail price I found for it was only $5.27, again I would still pay $27.50 including shipping, otherwise I can just fix the old cup.

 

John L.

 

[trainguy]

Prices are still very high on parts. Maybe offering a discount to AW members will help parts to move. Remember, there is a very small market for vintage parts.

Good Luck!

 

[trainguy]

Also...

you really may want to answer questions sent to you on eBay.