"Pessimippopotamus" (pessimippopotamus)
09/01/2014 at 20:34 • Filed to: VICES
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"Pessimippopotamus" (pessimippopotamus)
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I have more than a decade's worth of car brochures that I've collected over the years. Many of them duplicates. It's like 100lbs, and I only want to keep some of them. What the hell do I do with the rest?
jkm7680
> Pessimippopotamus
09/01/2014 at 20:37 |
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EBAY!
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Pessimippopotamus
> jkm7680
09/01/2014 at 20:38 |
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Do people really spend money on these? Some of them are beat up, and these are from auto shows, so I assume there are tons of people who have them.
GhostZ
> Pessimippopotamus
09/01/2014 at 20:41 |
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Woah woah woah. Don't get rid of them. Upload that shit.
Take them to a library and see if they'll scan them into PDFs for you, if you don't want to do it yourself. They must be preserved for posterity.
Then, I would call up local dealerships and/or museums (got any corvette brochures? Call up the corvette museum) and see if they want them as memorabilia.
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Pessimippopotamus
> GhostZ
09/01/2014 at 20:43 |
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These aren't particularly rare. They're auto show handouts from 2002-now. I don't think anyone would consider them that valuable? And I wouldn't want to trouble library people and ask them to scan like 100 brochures.
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jkm7680
> Pessimippopotamus
09/01/2014 at 20:44 |
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I'll bet that if you sell bulk loads, people will buy them.
ly2v8-Brian
> Pessimippopotamus
09/01/2014 at 20:48 |
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Cool to see these in retrospect. My grandpa has a collection like that of GM brands from the 1950s to today. It's cool to look through.
NoahthePorscheGuy
> Pessimippopotamus
09/01/2014 at 20:55 |
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Ill be happy to take any Porsche ones off of you . Are they all recent or are there any vintage?
Boxer_4
> Pessimippopotamus
09/01/2014 at 21:12 |
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Some advice from someone who has over 260 brochures and other similar literature and has been collecting for ~14 years:
Don't be so quick to discard any. There is a pretty good market for brochures and other literature, especially on eBay. Typically, the older the brochure, or the nicer the brochure, the more it will go for. Model Specific brochures go for more than Make Overview brochures. European makes and rarer cars (from all countries) fetch more than domestic and Asian makes and more common cars. The more pages, and the bigger the brochure, the more it will fetch.
Personally, if you are serious, I would inventory what you have in a spreadsheet (I use Excel), and figure out what you have.
Also, I might be interested in any Subaru brochures that you have that I don't have.
As an aside, your picture reminded me of what my basement looked like when I did some reorganizing a couple of weeks ago.
These are the contents of the bottom right corner of the top picture.
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Pessimippopotamus
> NoahthePorscheGuy
09/01/2014 at 22:01 |
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All from the last decade or so.
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Pessimippopotamus
> Boxer_4
09/02/2014 at 18:05 |
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You've convinced me to keep them, for now. I'll box them and put them somewhere out of the way.