Where to sell parts now?

I have a question about where is the best place to sell used Mopar parts now? I have TONS of small parts left over from when I was in the parts business and have not been able to find a place to sell them. I have thousands of pieces of original hardware, trim, interior small parts, etc. but nothing that would be considered "home run" items, they were sold years ago.
I used to sell on ebay but that place is a joke now with their super high fees, absolutely NO seller protection and the search is totally broken. I would be lucky to sell 2 - 3 item a week there.
I have tried Facebook and even though I am listing on most of the major Mopar groups and get lots of "likes" I only am selling maybe 10% of what I am putting up. I am listing CHEAP there just to move the parts but it seems like things get buried so fast they become invisible.
Trying to list on the forums does not work much either as traffic is way down on these sites
Is it going to be like the old days where the ONLY way to sell was loading up and taking parts to a swap meet?
Any thoughts as I am just about ready to throw all these parts in the dumpster!
Thanks, Steve

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I'd try to offload all of it in bulk to another parts place that needs it

guy local to me wheels and deals , call Brad , he sells Mopar parts all over the world .. better to text than call 1-605-351-0633

Its not that easy anymore to move parts. As sad as it seems the hobby is slowing down, there are many reasons for this that have been discussed here before.

I have been to a closed up shop lately buying tools and shop equipment from the late owners son. He has a shipping container full of old parts from the 70's and early 80's .
I still have to go over and cherry pick the old tune-up cabinets form NAPA Echlin and Standard Plus. They have lots of NOS points and ignition parts like older coils and wires.
One box I seen has 6 NOS gas pump handles in it. This guys dad owned an Amaco gas station from 71-97 so he has a bunch of radiator hoses and Atlas wiper blade displays.
He wants me to make an offer on the entire container but it's so hard to put a price on all the crap and good stuff in it. I would have to sit on all this stuff until some person wants to give me penny on the dollar for the stuff.

Gus

I wish ya all luck... times have changed.

I was able to get six good older mopar white box performance cams before this below happened.... the rest the owner insisted went to scrap.

Honestly if its causing you this much grief and your out of the business put it all up in one lot and if it dont sell scrap it and move on and be happy.

Ive tossed so much this past year... people dont want to or cant afford shipping, demand is LOW. For me its foolish to put in the time to pack and ship for pennies.

I don't see anything of any value in that bin !

I have pretty much given up on selling parts anymore, only at swap meets now. I am about to eliminate my 150,000 parts as I am moving to Tennessee and can't take them with me. I will be having one more "swap" meet in June, then the dumpster comes. I was thinking of an auction, but like you most of my good stuff is long gone. The people who were into these cars are getting pretty old so parts just do not move quickly anymore. I appreciate the bulk I bought of you a couple years ago, but still have probably half of it and will end up going to the scrap yard soon...

I stopped selling on here cause A, low traffic and B, all sudden most of my pictures are to big now.
I do fairly good on the "other " Mopar sites. I don't care much for Facebook but do sell quite a bit on their Marketplace.

same here,am saving up my big stuff and taking to our local mopar swapmeet,fakebook is a joke,easy to hide behind a keyboard and a lot of no shows or not in there budget right now,lucky i have a grandson that is into this stuff,so he will probly inherit it.

eBay is a PITA but still the best place to sell stuff and get the best prices. Facebook marketplace is good too but has it's own problems. Craigslist is kind of a joke anymore, nobody there. I buy up collections like yours but being on the west coast doesn't make it practical. Also been my experience that once you to get the point of trying to get rid of stuff all the good, small, easy to sell stuff is long gone and it's the heavy stuff that doesn't have a ton of value.

Here is an idea of what I am talking about. There are tons of trim pieces for a b e and some c body. Most is decent driver quality with maybe a dent or two. Boxes full of gas pedals, brake pedals, door latches, linkage pieces, small hardware pieces, original attaching hardware by the hundreds, clips, etc.
I have already sold off all the really big stuff like sheetmetal and engines. Never again will I mess with these big parts! Way too much space and super hard to ship. What I have left is thousands of 20 - 50 dollar parts.
I have had really poor luck with ebay in the last few years and almost no luck with Facebook.
If I was to sell it as a lot I would get maybe 2 cents on the dollar or less and I hate to do that. It would be basically giving the parts away just to clear space. I am however super tired of dealing with this mess and part of me just wants it gone.

Economy's down so it's a buyer's market right now. I see lots of people selling their high dollar toys as of late, worried about impending doom. Suggest sitting on it until after 2024 and things start to bounce back. When they have articles being written about how people making $100k/yr are living "paycheck to paycheck"(they're doing something wrong if that's the case too) just imagine how those of us living from part bought to part sold feel.

I did a search and couldn't find one 'for sale' ad from you dating back the two years that Moparts lets me search. So.....

"If I was to sell it as a lot" If you were closer, I'd be there. I still buy this stuff, and in big lots as well. My sales have been good, and 'small' parts (OS2 and smaller) are the best to sell and ship. I've unloaded most of my heavy parts, too, just too expensive to ship now, and I don't go to nation meets anymore. The thing is, to sell the parts you have piece by piece might make it a full-time job for someone, by the time you figure in cleaning, pictures, descriptions, uploads, packing, and dropoffs to carriers, as you know.

The parts you have are too good to scrap, though, and I would think that just putting a listing on eBay (even as an auction) would get decent pricing for the lot, especially if you had a couple of semi-local guys going for it.

I think he used to be a sponsor or run a banner for his business.........

I remember Steve selling a lot on here.

I feel your pain Steve, I just want it gone too...

Yes I was a sponsor for many years and sold parts full time. I also had a small Mopar specific salvage business with a couple hundred cars. I was relying way too much on ebay and when things changed there about 10 years ago my sales died. I struggled along with sales dribbling in on ebay and finally had enough and crushed out the salvage, sold all buildable cars, sold hundreds of cores, sold multiple big parts lots and finally gave up trying to make a business out of this. I then went back full time restoring and painting cars, which I had done professionally since the early 80’s.
I now have a really nice professional restoration shop and have several hemi and six pack cars under construction as well as some other make cars. I have absolutely no interest in ever making the parts a business again, just wanted to sell some of these items as I am tired of seeing the just sit.

Hello Jim, I think I recognize some of those parts.

Hey Jim I need that 3rd axle on the left.

There's your solution there. You have no interest, so just easily scrap & pocket the $$. Put your time/effort into your Resto Shop. Then you'd have 1 less headache in life.

For sale ads are removed from the archive fairly quickly.

Problem with selling parts on forums and places like CL is it is local buyers only. I have seen stuff i would buy but not sending $ to a total stranger and hope they do the right thing and ship me the what i bought. I used to like Offer up until you had to give them your drivers license info and pic so they can post it to verify who you are. I told them FU and closed my account. I stay away from FB like the plague. Haven't tried Mercari yet. All the issues with ebay i think is still the best place other than swap meets.

Only problem with ebay, as others have said, are the ridiculous fees. I just listed something on there yesterday to reach a bigger audience and their fees have gone up even more for sellers since as soon as 5 or 6 months ago. It was 12.9% they take out from the total of an item sold. Now it's gone up to 13.25% which is just outrageous. That's why you'll see parts on ebay for 2-300 more than what they normally go for and sometimes it's even worse than that. I've seen people listing a '68 Charger park lamp for almost $400 for one when I had to sit on a good pair for $125 for almost a month elsewhere. As for marketplace and CL, that's why I always ask if they use PayPal and if they look like a reputable person who's been on there for years with other listings that have either sold or are for sale I'll go ahead and take the friends and family risk. If not, it's worth only the 4% fee for goods and services that way if you never get your part you have recourse to get a refund.

"There's your solution there. You have no interest, so just easily scrap & pocket the $$. Put your time/effort into your Resto Shop. Then you'd have 1 less headache in life."

"For sale ads are removed from the archive fairly quickly."


Learned something today. But in any event, I'd give it another go on Moparts and the For-X-Bodies Only with some fire sale pricing and see what happens. I'd bet most of it would sell. But then again, I don't know exactly what you have.

Dont forget ebay also charges you 13.9% of shipping as well as 13.9% of the sales tax they collect. I sold a fairly large expensive item a few months ago and the overall fees were close to 30%. Also, if you sell international and for some reason the customs delays the package and the customer does not pick it up on thime you will eat all the shipping and give the part away! Ebay will NOT refund your shipping cost. I am 100% done selling internationally after I had this happen to me.
Also, ebay throttles your listings so you can only sell a certain amount every month. It is absolutely not a place you can count on to have your items get seen. To get decent exposure you have to list pretty much every day and this turns it into a job except it is a job you never know when you can expect to get a payday from!
Bottom line is ebay is not the place to sell parts anymore

As a former online retailer, I understand the frustration of rising fees, deadbet bidders, and stupid shipping fees. These are the exact reasons I got out of the business.

As an enthusiast who occasionally needs parts, it breaks my heart to see huge stores of original parts get scrapped for $100 a ton.

Certainly some things will rarely or never sell...Hubcaps, leaf springs, t-bars, scratched glass, dry rot rubber parts, nuts and bolts, so there are some places you could start pitching things out.

Your stuff, so you can do with it what you want. I'd hope you give it away before you would throw it away. But it does have value and it does take time from you to dig through and pull out stuff for piece meal sales/donation. I hope you find someone willing to take the whole lot of it.

I too sell for a living and I gave up on EBay a few years ago. Just to much bs to go through along with their fees.
Steve I think you should try to sell it all as a package deal for a bit before scaping it. But it is your stuff and do what works for you. Not the end of the world if you scrap it. You might call Jeremy at DD auto 435-999-4423 They buy up lots like yours. They are the guys on U Tube that bought all the cars and stuff in NY and couple years ago. I'd be interested in all of if you were closer.

Steve and Rhinodart, it's such a shame the way things have become on Feebay because I can see you guys have a lot of stuff that I'm sure people need and you would gladly sell at a fair price! What was once an onliine garage sale, Feebay has become what I see as a poorly managed greedy company. The keyword spamming is out of control for example. And the fees just keep going up as the site gets worse.

I wish I knew of an answer for you both, but I sure hope you don't scrap the stuff.

Sounds like it is time to start up a new online auction site with lower fees. Maybe a car part only auction site, none of the nonsense getting in the way. Could also get together with a shipping site, like Shippo or others, to get a good discount on shipping costs.

My wife and have been selling on ebay between classic mopar car parts,toys and clothes were able to move stuff.

Selling parts has become a swamp. It used to be you could sell pretty much any good part you took the effort to remove from a car or truck and make a little money off of it. That just isn't the story anymore.

The difference between then and now it back then, people were actually driving and using the cars and trucks, many daily, or at least weekly. Things happened, and parts needed to be replaced. replacing the bent chrome trim piece with one that was straight was better then not having one, even if the chrome wasn't as nice.

These days, in case you haven't noticed, not many people drive these old cars any more. Almost none are daily drivers, and very few are even moved once in a month. Most have become a museum or a garage decoration. They are stored in some environmental controlled building until it rolls into an enclosed trailer, is transported to the show to be displayed, if the weather is nice. Then it gets loaded up to go back to its storage facility. Not much stuff needs to be replaced, and if it does, its not going to be a "daily driver quality" part, most owners threw that crap out years ago, when the car was restored..

So here we are, us old guys that remember the days we could make a few bucks selling good parts to the guys for their daily drivers. We have saved a bunch of that stuff because it was "too good to throw away". The good news is, we can still sell those parts to the guys that are still daily driving their cars. The bad news is, we have to find those few guys, and we have to happen to have the part they need at a price they can afford, and that affordable price also has to include the shipping costs. A deal on the part you need is pretty useless if it cost more to get the part to you then the part cost to buy. Like it or not, shipping is always part of the cost of buying that part, unless the part is near you and you can pick it up yourself. You have to pay for the part and the shipping before you have the part in hand and you can put the part on your car or truck. Without shipping, there is no part to put on your daily driver.

So the deal is, you can sit on those parts that were "too good to throw away" back then, until we find that one person that wants it. Or we can sell the entire mess to someone else that is willing to sit on those parts until the right guy comes along. Or you can scrap them. Complaining about no one wanting to buy "driver quality" parts when no one is driving this type of car anymore isn't going to help.

Someone had to say it.

Im always looking for M body stuff and specifically 77-80 truck parts (or whatever fits).

From a buyers point of view the way I see ebay is that it used to be great but then it got flooded with all the junk. You do a search for something and page after page of LED bulbs or chinese brake parts or whatever else is common. Then they messed up their search so you had to be more and more creative to not include that stuff.
In the mean time sellers were getting screwed with less sales and higher fees so they were raising their prices and shipping prices pretty much tripled or more in the last 20 years too,

Now when I can find parts either sellers want too much or by the time you add in shipping it's not worth it. And to make things worse we're not talking high dollar muscle cars here either so it makes it all the more harder to find parts or justify the cost.

There are a lot of old "parts" cars out there that people are trying to restore. I think there is still a huge need for parts. You see these beat up cars changing hands frequently, as they are at the affordable or lower end of the price range. If you want to sell parts, make it easy for the buyer. There are several reasons things don't sell. A big reason the marketplace has become too greedy with asking prices. So what do you do...I think there are three options:

1. Sit on the motherload of parts and try to get rich with a high asking price
2. Sell for reasonable, if not below market prices and move the stuff on to someone who needs it
3. Dumpster

The third option sucks, but I'm sure lots of stuff is gone because of that. If you want to sell, regardless of asking price, you have to let people know what you have. Make an inventoried list of items. Part, year, make, model, price, etc. Take a photo of the part. Whether you sell here on Moparts, swap meet, social media or another website, people want/need to know want you have. Few are fans of digging through the bin of stuff at the swap meet. Its a waste of time not knowing if that part your looking for is there. Same with the post where there is hundreds of items in a picture without any real way to identify the stuff. Some are experts and can pick those items out, other new people in the hobby have no idea. I don't think shipping cost is an excuse. It is a hassle for the seller. People will pay to get the stuff they want/need. They may not gamble on a purchase if they are not sure its going to fit. Make it easy for the buyer and you can sell stuff anywhere.

As a buyer mostly I feel stuck with Feebay and frequently find what I need there. I too look for M body stuff sometimes and the NOS stuff is usually ridiculously priced and it's the same few sellers. And so many sellers use Keyword Spamming now so it's so friggin annoying. They list every car ever manufactured under "Interchange Part Numbers", "Superseded Part Numbers" and "Manufacturer Part Numbers" so thousands of things pop up. Example; I was looking yesterday at NOS Mopar parts and among other crap a pocket cigarette lighter came up because they had listed "Dodge Charger" under "Manufacturer Part Number".

As an infrequent seller I feel stuck with Feebay too. Where else do you get this kind of marketing? But I hate it and wish we could put the pinch on them.

Ebay is good January to April then the swap meets open and traffic slows down. I chuckle when people say eBay fees are high but have you seen the swap meet space prices lately along with travel cost and the time away from home?

This week is the Pate Swap Meet and I'll be there buying and selling. The sales I've made for Pate are pre-show orders a couple of parts to pay for the trip. So figure $350 for the trip how much is that in eBay fees? But for me it's a hobby and a way to buy parts for my cars.

Supposedly Instagram has a place to sell parts? Iron Trap Garage on Youtube sells there along with swap meets and eBay with success.

Best of luck with your sales.

US postal use to be the best for international shipping.
With the recent few raises, even small/light items are crazy high.
Only sellers who can ship cheap are the dang Chinese.
But they screwed the USPS with that deal they have now.
All the rest of us are "paying" for cheap Chinese shipping these days.

I don’t sell parts for a living by any means but sometimes I get tired of tripping over stuff I know I’m never going to use and I recently had a family member a pass away and he had a lot of stuff that his wife has ask me to sell for her, I’ve been trying to sell stuff on here and it’s been hit and miss, stuff that I thought would sell easily has not and other things seem to be getting no interest, I don’t have Facebook but my son does so I’m probably going to let him try marketplace. I have not yet been given a reason to not trust Moparts members so that’s why I usually try this place first.

But now they report any income over $600 (I believe) on ebay to IRS

Most swap meets I've seen are anywhere from $40-$90 for a space and that's a one time fee. The 13.9% ebay fee is on every single part sold. So a part that is $400 total with shipping means they're taking out $55.60 on that sale alone. 7 equivalent sales easily breaks that $350 mark. And I've heard they're now reporting anything over $350 to the IRS.

So the Mopar Nats $95 preregister $115 at the time of the show for a 10'x25' spot. You need two spots one for the vehicle and one to sell from, $180-$230.

For me it's 972 miles, 15 hours driving 100 gallons of fuel to the Nationals. So selling $5000 of parts you are at 10% not to mention hotels etc.

Bottom line it cost money to make money and the eBay IRS is held off until 2024. So be thankful you didn't pay taxes from the beginning of eBay.

If you file sole proprietor on the eBay parts business you can write off the 972 miles and shipping etc.

the IRS 600.00 reporting limit was bypassed this year (for 2022 transactions) as the IRS didn't have the manpower to handle it. Not sure what this year will bring but wish I did as I have few things I'd like to sell but I'm not giving them a reason to add to my CPA's bill. I've been using C/L and FBM a little at a time with reasonable success. I have a butt load of mixed make parts that will be going to a swap meet when I get the time. Also have Mopar stuff but I have to find the time to list it here and elsewhere. That's a PITA itself.

I’d sell it as one big lot, here on Moparts…

Yeah thats just shy of never gonna happen. do what i did, take it all to a swap meet and fire sale the stuff and then whats left find a guy around or next to you that will take the rest for free, that way you can wash your hands of it all and not have to unload the crap back onto the shelves when you get home.

WHY I STARTED SELLING IT ALL WHEN I RETIRED IN 2010...TOOK 13 YRS AND I AM DOWN TO A PICKUP BED FULL OR SO LEFT..

EBAY AND FACEBOOK IS THE ONLY PLACES I HAVE SOLD ANYTHING THE LAST 5 YRS OR SO... DONE WITH CARS

GONNA ENJOY MY 2 I HAVE LEFT..NO MORE RESTORATIONS, NO MORE BUYING CARS...SO NICE TOO

So I presold $1800 for the Pate Swap Meet this week, bought another $750 and sold 90% and took a set of headers and some smalls home. Stayed two days one night and cost me around $250 about 10% of my profit.

Not bad. 13.9% of the $1800 alone would have been $250.20 on ebay + 13.9% of whatever the shipping would have been, then costs of all the boxes, wrapping material, and multiple trips to USPS/UPS. Also the added bonus of being able to hunt down other deals on the low and get part in hand either same day or next and resell. I'd still say swap meets are the best places these days.

i got to thinking hard about this the other day, and i have come to the conclusion it's time for me to bail on selling "stuff".
i got to looking at all the boxes and packing material i have gathered over all these years, and the space this takes up, and i think i'm done.
shipping is outrageous, e-bag is a ripoff, and when i figure in all my effort to box up, [which i take great care to insure no damage occurs] i figure i might just as well toss everything, as in the end, i have WAY more effort in the deal than it's worth.
i think most know i never toss ANYTHING, but as much as it pains me, [growing up around depression era aunts and uncles instilled in me the "that could be used for something someday, so i better keep it....." mentality] i think mr. scrap man is going to get quite a few visits coming up.
as my one good buddy goes to carlisle every year, i will probably have him take a few things to "fire sale" dump, and i may take a few pictures and list here for carlisle pickup, but that's it.
i started to toss shipping supplies the other day, and what a workout THAT was ! mr. garbage man will be pi$$ed at me for at least a couple of weeks, as i will be crowding my limit for the weekly pickup.
then there are the BOXES of used wiring harnesses................[and to think of all the times they have come in handy for repairing a harness without resorting to butchery.....]

Just curious,
if an ebay seller sold a old, used $100 radio on eBay, plus $15 shipping
approximately how much would eBay take from the seller?

https://www.ebayfeescalculator.com/usa-ebay-calculator/

Generally.... $100 for the sold price, $15 for shipping and assume sales tax collected by eBay another $10. eBay calculates the total GROSS price (this is the amount reported as income, also) as $125, and this is the amount eBay bases their fees on, about 13.5%.

Sales tax is collected from the buyer. It has no effect on what the seller recieves.

"Sales tax is collected from the buyer. It has no effect on what the seller receives"

Sales tax IS collected from the buyer, BUT eBay includes the sales tax in the total amount received as payment and recorded as the sellers gross income (in the example above, the $125 amount), and the tax is subject to the 13.5% eBay fee to the seller.

The heck with ebay & facebook, you can always use MySpace to sell stuff.