Any Jim Beam bottle collectors here?

[disneysteve]

My dad and I collected Jim Beam figural bottles for about 10 years from late '70's to late '80's. Dad died about 13 years ago and Mom and I no longer want or need the bottles. I've been trying to figure out the best way to sell them. Ebay just doesn't seem very successful for them based on all the completed auctions I've researched. I think the postage costs just kill the deal as it costs more to mail them than they are worth. We've contacted a few local auction houses and a few said they could sell them but from experience they sell very poorly. I hate to just trash them. We may end up doing the auction route just to get something for them, but I know there are people out there who want them. I just don't know how to find those people.

Any suggestions?

 

[drgnfly30]

Have you tried to Google for any Jim Beam collectors forums? That way you might go right to the source....

Christine

 

[Cosmic_Charlie]

Which ones do you have?

 

[disneysteve]

Have you tried to Google for any Jim Beam collectors forums? That way you might go right to the source....

Yes, I did try that and there are a couple of online forums but none of them seem particularly active (like DIS). The majority of the posts by people looking to sell collections had no responses.

Which ones do you have?

I have a large collection of several hundred bottles. I don't have a comprehensive list but if you might be interested, I could put one together.

I have considered putting an ad in the local papers and trying to sell the collection that way. That's actually how we aquired many of our bottles - by buying out other collections.

 

[safetymom]

I had a number of Jim Beam bottles that we collected. When I went to sell the house for the move to FL I did a lot of research and found out they weren't worth much. They certainly weren't worth my time and effort. I gave some to the Goodwill and got rid of the rest in the garbage. Certainly not really what I wanted to do but didn't have storage space and didn't want to pay the moving costs.