How Would You Price This
Just wondering how you would price this Charlie Brown / Peanuts music box that had been zombie rethemed. I couldn't find anything even close as a comp, and 2 different internet AI's and all 4 of the reseller AI programs I have all put vastly different prices on it.
34 comments
fm2000
·4 months agoSince you have a social media following, it is totally sellable! I would have guessed $75 would have been an average offer price. I'd ask $100 and take offers. The value in the item is that you made it, and someone who enjoys your content might buy it.
If I, as someone with no social media presence at all made something like that, even if it was clever and well painted... would probably be worthless and never sell. (Do you think it is worth it for a small eBay seller to have a social media presence like yours, I always assumed it wouldn't be worth the time, and unlike you and some of the eBay YouTube channel hosts there is nothing interesting about me, I don't have any adorable family or pets, some of my items are niche but not super interesting to the average person, and I have the perfect face for radio and the perfect voice for pantomime.)
(OFF explained in a video the item was already damaged, and therefore literally worthless, when he got it. He did not destroy an item of value by painting it, he could only add value to it.)
spendingcents26150
·4 months agoNo advice but.... Nice..lol
trip98
·4 months agoMight sell as Halloween Haunted House Found Art Decor or Halloween Party Centerpiece in August-Sept. There is a bar in my town called Silverstamp that decorates with very creepy and macabre Halloween decor....this item would fit right in.
funfactorychannel
·4 months agoCustom Halloween Peanuts Figurine 89.99 assuming item is at least 5 x 4. If smaller lesser price.
onefootflipper
OP4 months agoI set it at $75 as that was the most common number I was getting via various channels. I will of course be considering any offers, and marking it down using my normal markdown schedule.
funfactorychannel
·4 months ago75 is fine 🙂 i never been the lowest pricer 😄
my-cottage-books-and-antiques
·4 months ago@onefootflipper As you probably know, there's a HUGE market for repainted Precious Moments figurines, as well as similar figures. Some of these can bring a LOT more than the original item. I don't know how many are sold here, but you can find Facebook groups (and probably other social media) dedicated to this stuff, and a look around should give you some idea as to how to price this. If it were me, I would research that stuff, and then just factor in what I paid for the item (probably very little, I'm guessing), how much time and effort I put into painting it and what value I place on that, and how much profit do I want to make above and beyond that. Also, I'd probably be asking myself: Did I really enjoy doing this? Is this something I want to continue, so I should think of this as not so much a one off , as the beginning of a new side gig.
onefootflipper
OP4 months agoIt was basically a one-off. I probably spent an hour and a half on it over 2 days.
my-cottage-books-and-antiques
·4 months agoJust curious if you considered swapping out the music box itself for one with a Halloweeny feel....
gone.c-33
·4 months agoThere is definitely a market for spookified “wholesome” trinkets.
Goth/Horror Precious Moments figurines are a huge hit on instagram.
I strongly disagree with anyone who calls this ruined.
tarotfindsandmore
·4 months agoI concur! I sell a fair bit of Junko Mizuno toys/art. She's about as "creepy cute" as it gets. I've sold a lot of Mark Ryden and Camille Rose Garcia stuff over the years as well. They're both quite dark, but base work on cute, wholesome themes. The latter grew up just outside the gates of Disneyland so her work is heavily influenced by The Mouse, but very dark.
The trick is to get things in front of the right audience. (It also helps if you wear a lot of black with combat boots and a beret, smoke clove cigarettes, and are named Dieter. <----JOKE!)
Instagram is a good idea as well...
mattva
·4 months agoI wouldn't put it up for auction. Just put a price on it what you think it's worth to you. For me, I would list it at say $75.00. I would then send out offers to whoever viewed it or placed it in their watchlist. If it sits for awhile just keep lowering the price.
Just my two cents.
jonathanbrightlight
·4 months agoI would agree that an auction is a good option, and I would try to drum up interest on social media if you’re up for that. The chances of the right buyers finding it on eBay directly are probably smaller than the chances of people seeing a Facebook post or similar and tagging someone else who would love it.
slippinjimmy
·4 months agoI'm sure there are Snoopy collectors that have saved searches and other methods of searching for any new Snoopy stuff here on eBay.
The problem is the huge numbers of Snoopy stuff listed every day.
Searching - Snoopy - in the Collectibles Category I see 1400 new listings today (18 hours) and over 200,000 active listings, hard to browse that volume so additional keywords might be important.
jonathanbrightlight
·4 months ago@slippinjimmy
No doubt there are plenty of Snoopy collectors that would see it, but I’m thinking the overlap of Snoopy collectors that would want a custom zombie paint job on this type of item is more rare.
tarotfindsandmore
·4 months agoYeah, this definitely going to be a tougher market to find. Snoopy/Peanuts collectors tend to be a bit older and more wholesome than even Sanrio fans.
There's a pretty big Snoopy collecting community in Japan but they're generally leaning toward Harajuku-Kawaii items, rather than blood and guts.
hartungcards
·4 months ago"...but I’m thinking the overlap of Snoopy collectors that would want a custom zombie paint job on this type of item is more rare."
You misspelled "nonexistent" at the end of that sentence.
tarotfindsandmore
·4 months agoIs there any kind of a signature or artist marking on it? Do you know where/who it came from? It's very difficult to sell OOK items without any provenance. Most of the items that you see which actually sell on the platform are modded by an artist with a following, even if it's just a small one.
Also, do you know what the original, unpainted, musical box retailed for? That might give you an idea of a starting point.
onefootflipper
OP4 months agoI painted it myself actually. I had a lot of downtime this week due to almost no sales and me having listed everything in my input area.
hartungcards
·4 months ago"I painted it myself actually."
Since it's been ruined, I'd go somewhere around 10 bucks.
jdbelt1960
·4 months agoI agree with Hartungcards. This piece has been ruined. If you had not made it gruesome Peanuts stuff sells well. Good Luck.
onefootflipper
OP4 months agoI was already ruined, 2 of the characters were snapped off and missing and there were multiple missing hands.
hartungcards
·4 months ago"I was already ruined, 2 of the characters were snapped off and missing and there were multiple missing hands."
In that case, I'd put it in the trash.
tarotfindsandmore
·4 months agoAs cool as it is, that's going to be a very tough sell. Again, it's just a matter of name recognition. As you know already know, buyers search according to brand name and when it comes to art, the artist name. That's a huge part of why something like a %100 Dumpster Fire vinyl toy will retail for 35 bucks without a fancy paint job, but several hundred dollars from an artist with a following.
This may be one of those rare instances when an auction is a better option. There's just no way to price an item with no like items in the solds, from an unknown artist.
meme6253
·4 months agoI think you would have had a better chance selling it in it's original form, I think you probably ruined an otherwise collectible Peanuts item, What exactly possessed you to do that??
onefootflipper
OP4 months agomeme, I totally respect like 90 percent of your opinions these days, but this thing came pre-ruined. It had 2 figures already broken off and several of the other figures had missing hands.
I actually have a very large social media following (21,000 youtube, 4,000 facebook), I am going to show it in my next video.
tarotfindsandmore
·4 months agoSpeaking of which, why don't you use your channel to promote it? With that many followers you should be able to get some traffic.
ETA: I would probably omit that bit about it already being broken. As admirable as recycling/repurposing an otherwise wrecked item that would normally headed for the trash is, potential collectors aren't likely to be too keen on buying it.
onefootflipper
OP4 months agoThat is exactly what I will do. I wasn't actually expecting it to be lucrative. I mostly did it to pass the time and salvage an otherwise unsellable broken item. I just don't have any place to keep the thing myself. It doesn't fit in with the 25mm scale fantasy miniatures and terrain pieces that I normally paint.
hartungcards
·4 months ago"I mostly did it to pass the time and salvage an otherwise unsellable broken item."
And now it's even more unsellable.
wheelworkzmurfreesboro
·4 months agoIt seems very unique. I don't do auctions but you might luck up and make bank if you find the right buyer that collects Peanuts themed items.