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Hi all.

 

I was thinking about trying to reach a wider audience through online web sale of a couple of pens I'm trying to get to re-home, but I'm not really sure of any other decent places to list the pens for sale. One alternative, facebook buy sell groups I don't have access to not being a member of having the interest to be a member of that platform.

 

I noticed there is a buy / sell section here on fpn, although as I'm from the UK and the prices require USD I can convert the prices. But for two ads is it free?

 

Any other site ideas welcome - ideally free

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The rules for selling on FPN are here:

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/blog/7/entry-85-classifieds-rules-october-28-2013/

 

As long as it's only a "couple of pens" you should have no problem.

 

Other places to sell pens are:

fountainpenclassifieds.com (pending an upgrade)

newpentrace.net

fpgeeks.com/forum

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Reddit has a sub called pen_swap that is extremely active as well. Make sure you check out their rules too, please. Be respectful.

 

Good idea Ghost Plane. I didn't think about a consignment seller. I've got a pesky mid-range $200+ dollar pen that I can't seem to sell. I might have to look for a consignment seller.

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Or you can use a consignment seller. I’m sure someone will give you names where you are.

What's a consignment seller? I would imagine that they take a commission, but what else do they do?

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There are two bases for consignment selling. In neither do they purchase the pen from you directly, so you own it until sale.

 

In the common case they sell and remit sale price minus a previously agreed commission (percentage). They can also sell it and remit a previously agreed base sum (as if they had bought it) meaning they make whatever margin they happen to get.

 

eta: what they do is sell it alongside any other stock they have.

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