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Message:: [QUOTE="afantiques, post: 77779, member: 25"]Unless it is quite remarkable stuff it is likely to cost more to ship than it is worth. It may seem that the buyer pays the shipping but it is really the seller. I argue this thus. The piece is worth $100, we'll assume a local buyer and a distant buyer would both agree on this. The distant buyer faced with a $50 bill for delivery will offer $50, so they pay the gross value they put on the piece. You get half the money you would have locally, if you could find a buyer there. You'd need someone dumb enough to totally disregard the cost of shipping to get the same price for your item, and anyone that dumb has usually been cleaned out by earlier ill considered purchases, if they ever had any money to start with. Therefore budget is important. I'd make it local collection only, or consign the lot to a local auction house. That way you'd only have to pay for one van journey. If the value is modest and you live somewhere very isolated, and you simply have to get rid of the stuff, the least cost option may to break it up and burn it where it stands (more or less, you can move it outside). When faced with this situation recently the most  economical solution was to give it all away. The incidental costs of selling the stuff would have been more than it would have fetched.[/QUOTE]