Where to find original prices of SU stamp sets?

[maslex]

Selling some of my mom's things. I don't have any previous catalogs to reference back to, to get the original prices. Could someone who has back catalogs please help? Here are the sets that I need. Thanks so much.

Fresh Vintage
Patterned Occasions
Madison Avenue
Pretty Petites
Bloomin Marvelous
Feeling Sentimental
Summer Afternoon
Express Yourself
Peaceful Season
Postage Collection
Decorate a Daisy
Field of Flowers
Days of Gratitude
Dapper Dad
Pleasant Poppies
Delightful Decorations
Rejoicing With You
Bells & Boughs
More Merry Messages
Christmas Deer
Pursuit of Happiness
Curly Cute
Chock Full of Cheer
Snow Much Fun
Come to Bethlehem
Sweet Cake
Elements of Style


And if a set is brand new never used, is there a percentage that you price it to sell at?

[RubberLady603]

Hmmm, quite a list! I have catalogs going way back but honestly, it would take me forever to find them all without the dates. Hopefully someone has this in a listed format already and can help you quicker. If you get stuck on some and have the year I will try to help.

[Skippet]

You could look each one up separately on e-bay under completed listings to get an idea of what the going price is currently. Often the original price is not indicative of it's current value. Some sets go much higher than the original price and others you can hardly give away compared to their original cost.

[muscrat]

Are they wood or clear mount? Wood cost more.

[SkyNacho]

A lot of those look recent, as in, within the last three catalogs.... I think a couple are recent SAB items from last year (feeling sentimental and bloomin' marvelous, and fresh vintage a year or two before that). They probably say sale-a-bration somewhere on the label. There is usually a value associated with SAB sets, but there wouldn't have been a "price" because you couldn't buy them, just earn them.

I am on my way out for a 12 hour crop, but I'll try to haul out the catalogs and look some of those up for you if no one else has popped in.

[muscrat]

Here's a few

Quote:

Originally Posted by maslex

Selling some of my mom's things. I don't have any previous catalogs to reference back to, to get the original prices. Could someone who has back catalogs please help? Here are the sets that I need. Thanks so much.

FresOccasions
Patterned Occasions
Madison Avenue
Pretty Petites
Bloomin Marvelous
Feeling Sentimental
Summer Afternoon
Express Yourself $11c $15w
Peaceful Season
Postage Collection
Decorate a Daisy
Field of Flowers (do you mean field flowers?) $17.95c $24.95w
Days of Gratitude $18.95c $26.95w
Dapper Dad
Pleasant Poppies $13.95 c $17.95w
Delightful Decorations $21.95w
Rejoicing With You
Bells & Boughs $14.95c $19.95w
More Merry Messages
Christmas Deer
Pursuit of Happiness $13.95c $17.95
Curly Cute $14.95c $19.95w
Chock Full of Cheer
Snow Much Fun $19.95c $27.95w
Come to Bethlehem $14.95c $19.95w
Sweet Cake
Elements of Style $19.95c $27.95 w


And if a set is brand new never used, is there a percentage that you price it to sell at?

[Alice in Md]

The SU! Gallery here on SCS gives the dates that stamps were active.

Michael Funke, a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, has a link to old catalogs on the left side of his blog: Stampin-Style

If you follow both of those leads, you should get your original prices. As Skippet suggested, check ebay for current values and how well they have sold. Some sets sit around there forever and others a scarfed up at exorbidant prices.

[maslex]

Ok thanks!!! I had checked ebay but I wasn't sure if the "average" that they sold for was kind of accurate of what they're worth. I know some of the sets that I've seen were outrageous. And some looked as though they sold very cheap.

But when I do sell them, I'd don't want to overprice them and have people think I'm trying to rip them off. LOL


***and I apologize, If forgot to mention that they are all clear mount. 95% of them have never been used even though my mom already put the label on each stamp. The few that have been used, she probably used 1-2 stamps out of each set. So they're still in very good condition.


I was going to try selling them at my yard sale in a couple weeks and what ever didn't sell, I would put them on here. But now, I think I'll post them here first and then put the ones that don't go by my yard sale. I'm hoping to get the posted later on tonight or tomorrow. I have have about 5 more sets that I just found plus some other Stampin Up stuff that needs to go.