Seeking advice on selling pens

[stephanos]

I'm writing to ask for advice about selling pens. After many years of being a magpie wide-spectrum accumulator, I've started focusing (largely on Pelikan). Alas, cash-flow is an issue, so I need to sell some nice pens to be able to afford anything new.

 

For example, I have a Delta Israel 60 LE, a Visconti Opera Master (blue) LE, a Visconti Wall Street (red), an orange Visconti Opera, an OMAS Milord HT, and a couple of OMAS Ogiva Cocktails. These are all beautiful (and fairly high-value) pens that I could bear to part with, as I almost never use them. I'm still on the fence about some other pens, like my OMAS Prototipo (same shape as my 360, but slightly smaller and in demonstrator yellow) and my Classic Pens LM1 (red).

 

I did sell a pen (almost by accident) once, but I have never actively sold pens before. I know that I could go via eBay, but I am not a huge fan of that platform. However I go about it, I would want to send them tracked and insured, of course. Alas, I'm in a rural (for Europe) region, so in-person selling is completely out of the question, though I am planning to attend this year's Pelikan Hub later this month.

 

My question is: what would you recommend as the best approach to take in selling some pens, bearing in mind that I'm not in a rush?

 

 

@Moderators: I wasn't exactly sure where to post this: "Fountain & Dip Pens - First Stop" and "The Mall" were possible, but in the end I decided that the Market Watch forum seemed most appropriate - if you think a different forum is more suitable, please move it there...

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[Mark from Yorkshire]

@stephanos where are you based Eurasia and the Euarasian plate cover a large and vast area. Rural Europe also covers a whole host of sins. Please at least narrow it down to a country. Germany, France or Eastern Europe (Estonia) etc.

[stephanos]

17 hours ago, Mark from Yorkshire said:

@stephanos where are you based Eurasia and the Euarasian plate cover a large and vast area. Rural Europe also covers a whole host of sins. Please at least narrow it down to a country. Germany, France or Eastern Europe (Estonia) etc.

 

Hi, Mark. I'm in Germany; pretty much bang in the middle.

By German standards my location is pretty rural, though the term is definitely relative: I'm about 1¹/₄ hours from Hanover.

 

[Mark from Yorkshire]

@stephanos thanks for that, Germany compared to UK is a large country still we also have areas out in the sticks similar distance from a main town.