Wanted to help a widowed friend who is selling her deceased husband tools, and want her to get a fair price to the tools. They are used but is good condition. Here is the festool tools she has Ct 48e Fs 1900/2 Domino DF 500 TS 75 We know the new prices and know festool usually hold their value but want to make sure she is asking an honest price. Thank you for any input!!!
Used festool prices
- Thread starter Kelbus
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In order to provide help, knowing a geographical location, age, and condition would all be pretty important to know before any sort of even remotely accurate information would be needed. Lacking that, a search in her area on used item sales sites would be a good start.
Peter
Peter
Hipplewm
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If you look at FB market place around me - 75% of the Festool items are more expensive than recon site, so I just buy everything from recon instead of dealing with people and I get a 1yr warranty
onocoffee
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There are some factors to consider. First, how interested/desperate is she to sell the tools? The lower the price, the quicker it will move. Most of the Marketplace sellers think they can get nearly retail but the savvy buyer knows the msrp and the related value of that tool. Factors that should be considered are: age, condition, manufacture date, model generation and location.
If maximum dollar is the goal, then she should be prepared to play the long game. I recently put up my 2014 RO150 on Marketplace to see how it would do priced at $635. Comparatively, another seller has an RO150 listed at $450. Both have sat there for over two weeks now. On my end, there has been little interest and since the $450 hasn't sold, I think there's little interest there as well.
The other day, I went to a seller and picked up two SYS3 M187 systainers ($40 each) and a SYS3 M437 ($75) and the seller commented to me that he thinks he "undervalued" them because he's had a lot of responses. They weren't "undervalued" - he had actually priced them at the right price point for people to see the deal and want to get them. Had they been priced higher, the response would have been more tepid. The seller had a couple more systainers (a T-Loc 3 for $75 and two Classics at $40ea) I passed on those because he wasn't willing to move on those prices and I hate the Classics, so not worth the money.
On that same day, I stopped by a seller who was selling a CT22 Boom Arm for $45. That is ten percent of the MSRP and I jumped at it because it was excellently priced. Turns out the seller had it for years and never assembled it. Now, he wanted it out and just wanted it gone - so he priced it at a price any knowledgeable person would rush for. He could have put it up for $150-250 and would have sold it, but at a slower pace than he did.
A couple days ago, I saw a post for an HKC55 with batteries for $400. An excellent buy. Was going to go get it the next day and the guy jumped the price to $600 (an okay buy). Messaged him about it and he got all huffy. Well, I'm not pressed for an HKC. Later that day, I went by a legacy dealer who had the corded HK55 (more power than the battery) on clearance at $400. God works in mysterious ways.
All this to say: consider the intent. If she wants it gone, price it down to get it all out of there. Maximize? Be prepared to wait. She may have some gems, like the LS130, RS2, CMS or VacSys. Those will command better prices despite being very discontinued. The CMS will find a buyer around $1500-2000, and the VacSys seems never to falter at $3500. At those prices you will have to find the right buyer but they are out there looking. And if you fire sale a VacSys at $400, like a seller in NC did once, you will have people clamoring to buy it from you - and probably some of them will over you more to hold their spot.
Good Hunting!
Is that the 75% that forever sits and is actually never sold?
I would have it delivered to my home for €666, then claim the €100 cashback. That would be $655 bottomline, already including the 19 / 21% VAT.
Lol ridiculous for an at least 14 year old plastic box.
