Commision sale shops ?

[fleabag]

Looking for any shops that will sell gear on commission,  not just basses / guitars. 

 

Not interested in Ebay / Gumtree / Reverb / FB etc.

 

Any suggestions , fat string pluckers ?  

 

Ta

[Webby308]

Possibly worth offering gear to Gardiner Holgate auctions.  They do a big guitar deal every 3 months.  One of my basses is in the next sale in September.

www.guitar-auctions.co.uk

 

If nothing else, browsing their latest catalogue is a nice experience!

[fleabag]

Cheers web !

[Grahambythesea]

I think auction houses charge too much with both seller and buyer paying commission, affects the sale price. Absolute Music will sell on commission.

[fleabag]

Good point  Graham

[tauzero]

12 minutes ago, Grahambythesea said:

I think auction houses charge too much with both seller and buyer paying commission, affects the sale price. Absolute Music will sell on commission.

 

Gardiner Holgate charge about 25% for the buyer and 15% for the seller, so you finish up with 60% of what the buyer pays.

[fleabag]

Gonna have a look at Asbolute Music

[pete.young]

Hobgoblin Music sell stuff on commission but they charge 40% commission.

[fleabag]

Thanks Pete.  40% ?

 

Hobgob can go eat Hobnobs  😀

[jonno1981]

I’ve had fantastic experiences selling gear at the bass gallery before. 

[fleabag]

I called them, but they were only interested in a couple of items

[Mykesbass]

Wunjo were great but my experiences were a few years back now.

[fleabag]

AFAIK, Wunjo dont do commission sales anymore

[warwickhunt]

Bassbros & Bass Direct - obviously commission off the price but I sold 9 basses through Will at BB and got more after commission than I would have selling privately.  

[fleabag]

Bass Direct  can swivel after the shameful shenannigans i went through with them, and Bass Bros only sell basses on commission, rather than accessories

[Guest]

RWB Music in York, despite giving the impression that never selling nothing to noone never wouldn't really fuss them, sold a Westone Thunder I-A guitar that not only hadn't worked for three decades, but was lacking its entire preamp, promptly and for a astonishingly good price. Maybe flogging nonsense to dreamers is their party piece, maybe they're wizards, but they've sold everything I've ever asked them to. 

[fleabag]

Worth a try  !

[Burns-bass]

2 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

Gardiner Holgate charge about 25% for the buyer and 15% for the seller, so you finish up with 60% of what the buyer pays.

How does that work? 

[BigRedX]

2 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

Gardiner Holgate charge about 25% for the buyer and 15% for the seller, so you finish up with 60% of what the buyer pays.

 

I think that's wrong. What actually happens is the buyer pays the sale price plus 25% which goes to the auction house, and then the auction house also takes a 15% cut on the sale price. You end up with 85% of the sale price.

[Burns-bass]

Just now, BigRedX said:

 

I think that's wrong. What actually happens is the buyer pays the sale price plus 25% which goes to the auction house, and then the auction house also takes a 15% cut on the sale price. You end up with 85% of the sale price.

Yep. 

[fleabag]

Absolute Music not interested

[JazzyJ]

48 minutes ago, Munurmunuh said:

RWB Music in York, despite giving the impression that never selling nothing to noone never wouldn't really fuss them, sold a Westone Thunder I-A guitar that not only hadn't worked for three decades, but was lacking its entire preamp, promptly and for a astonishingly good price. Maybe flogging nonsense to dreamers is their party piece, maybe they're wizards, but they've sold everything I've ever asked them to. 

That's interesting. I live at Kirkbymoorside but haven't thought about RWB before.

[tauzero]

31 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

 

I think that's wrong. What actually happens is the buyer pays the sale price plus 25% which goes to the auction house, and then the auction house also takes a 15% cut on the sale price. You end up with 85% of the sale price.

 

Ah yes, sorry, that's what happens. Memory fading (and I only bought some stuff from there a few months ago). But the seller still finishes up with 60% of what the buyer pays (in total), rather than 60% of the sale price.

[walshy]

What is it you're selling? I may be able to help, check out Vintage Bass Room

[fleabag]

Had a look walshy, but they seem to want vintage or rare gear, which i dont have