Determining parts value?

I am trying to sell a bunch of (mostly)2 cylinder John Deere parts for my folks. How do I determine value? I used the search on here and have found surprisingly few similar items. I sometimes check Ebay but any listings other than desirable add-ons(fenders, 3point, etc.) seem to be 90% dealers fishing for a sucker. Craigslist has also not been much help for anything other than fenders, 3 points, etc. I would ask about specific parts on here, but we are talking hundreds of different parts and I figured you guys would get tired of that. Any suggestions?

This is a tough question with many variables. What parts you have, condition, and your location will have a huge influence on pricing. Price them where you would be comfortable letting them go, and if you don't get any responses in a couple of weeks you will know they are priced to high. Just my opinion.

Carbs, mags, grills, good hoods, good tires sell well. Other parts are sometimes hard to sell. Value depends on condition and location. Try some swap meets. Ron Mn

If you can find them at an online salvage dealer like all states,
price them under their price. Doesn't have to be too much under
to move some parts. Other parts just don't break often so you
set on them forever it seems.

Contact your favorite local auctioneer and consign those parts. Make sure he advertises well.

I buy a lot on ebay, but I've never sold anything there - so I don't know quite what's involved on that side of things.

But if it were me, that's what I'd try.

Just put each item out there at what you feel is a reasonable minimum. Take a reasonable total that you'd like to make on this little project - say $1000 (just for example) and divide by say 200 parts. You can do a reserve of at least $5 on each part to ensure you hit your goal.

The bottom line is, if you're trying to maximize profits, you've got to know what your stuff is worth, and that only comes from spending years shopping around for like items.

Even if you are an expert on those particular parts, the demand varies enough in this market to make it difficult to know an exact value.

So, you're not in the parts business for a living, shoot for that total dollar value goal and be done with it. If you've got some truly rare, high demand parts, the pricing will take care of itself when multiple bidders try for it.

Or maybe you really make somebody's day selling them an impossible to find part for five bucks. Worse thing could happen to you.

Of course it just occurred to me you're talking a LOT of parts.

You might want to consider bundling related parts. That'd be a LOT of work shipping them all!

The tractor collector's market is declining fast. Are you looking to sell at a profit or simply to dispose of the items. You may be ahead to advertise the most valuable parts individually and offer to sell the rest in large lots at disposal prices. Often someone who buys a high priced item will be happy to work out a deal for more items or all that remains.

Scrap prices are unusually low, it may pay wait a year or two for higher prices before hauling away the scrap.

You didn't mention whether they were new old collected parts or used collected parts. If they are used wear parts you may as well scrap them. If they are what is known as NOS (new original stock) then bundle related parts and run on here on photo classifieds and craigslist. E-bay would be last resort but it does work, just have to pay 10% and then the shipping hassle. Just list for best offer and put a month time limit on it and you will then know what their value is. Market sets value,not the seller.

Others have given you some good advice. My son has thousands of parts to sell and we constantly debate / argue about how to best liquidate them. My advise for you to is to get someone knowledgeable in JD parts to take a look at your stuff if you don't know yourself. Pull out the valuable stuff and get pricing from e-bay or other sources you mentioned. Put a price on them and take offers. The common, low value stuff or poor condition stuff you could take to a local auction. You won't get much of anything but it goes away. The good stuff will also sell at swap meets. That is where we have the best luck and you meet a lot of great people. We will probably be selling more on eBay now that I have retired. How valuable is your time? That may dictate what you do.

For any that have p/n's you could go on jdparts.com, register and find prices for the ones still in their system. The JD parts in most cases will be way overpriced.

Get a Steiner catalog and others to see current prices.

Go to the parts section here on YT for prices.

Determining the value of something is very hard to do. Its always supply and demand. Ebay is the best place to sell them. If you have a lot of parts around you probably don't have anything in them anyway. Ebay buyers will tell you what there really worth. I get all my boxes from the post office delivered to my house. Notify the post office on the net and they will pick them up at my house. I use ebays shipping program. Print there lablel out to put on the box. costs with ebay, paypal will run you 16/18 percent of the bid. I weigh my stuff, look on the usps web site to see the shipping costs and list it accordingly. For the most part I just work off the assumption that I want $10 bucks for my troubles so I list it with that in mind unless I feel I have some thing that I know is a higher priced item. To me its all about getting rid of something I don't want to keep anymore and if someone can use it at a great price to them then im all for it. I don't live close to a post office so the shipping program and the usps help is really nice. Ebay started an overseas shipping program now where you ship it to Kentucky to process. The buyer has to pay all the feed from there. Ebay has gotten bad because of all the dealers with there hi priced ads and shipping costs. But I suspect theres a few people reading this ad that are trying to find some one like me that not all that concerned about the money but rather cleaning out my garage which was how ebay was founded. Times has changed. If you have any questions on ebay email me and I will try to help you. Decision is yours. Sell it all out at once and they will do the ebay thing, sell it to a scrap dealer which your basically giving it away, try craigslist and learn the name of all the scammers but if you do use craigs list do be careful. Hope this helps ypu. Norm

Or maybe consign them at the next BIG Mecums auction ? Don't know if they do parts ? It might depend on what the parts fit ?