I have a vintage Scotts Silent reel mower with mulch bag. What's its value?
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Determining value is a challenge as I would need to know the exact model and condition and then how I value is go to eBay and look at SOLD auctions and see what they are getting. If there is more than one, I average together the prices (use sold price + shipping cost).
If none are UNSOLD, and there are just current auctions, I set up a watch on eBay and watch it to see if/when it sells and for how much.
I do this because value is only what someone will actually pay for an item. People can ask the world, but if someone won't pay for the item it is "valueless".
There was 1 vintage Scott's mower UNSOLD on eBay, someone was asking $123. All that tells me as at the moment, no one wanted to pay that much for that particular model in that particular condition on that particular auction period. Tomorrow that could change :)
It is important when doing doing the match to eBay to use the EXACT MAKE/MODEL AND CONDITION to judge the value. There are often similar items where one is VERY valuable (more rare or desirable) and one not so much. Obviously a pristine still in the box version would fetch more than one that had been run hard and hung out to dry also...so condition does matter.
By doing apples to apples, you can be comfortable in the value of your EXACT piece.
Hope this gets you started in valuing the item.
This person is asking $50.
There is a similar mower listed on eBay for $50 but so far, is still unsold.
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