Need help identifying ponies

[Janis]

can someone share with me if there is a place on the web I can go to identify my ponies or a collector guide I can buy. Strawberry jam has graciously offered to help me identify them, but since I have over 200 ponies I can't burden her with that many. I accumulated them for my grand daughters and now it's time to send them to new homes. I am reluctant to attempt to list them on eBay because buyers can rip you apart if you misrepresent something and I don't know which are old and collectible. Two years ago I purchased a very large set of houses and playsets of all kinds and the lady I bought them from told me they were older and collectible. I didn't care about that. I bought them to be played with and now the girls have graduated to calico critters. I am up to my ears and over my head. And I have yet to learn how to upload and post pics. I just email or text.

 

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@Janis

Strawberryreef
Kimi's Dream Valley
Ponylandpress

 

[Janis]

Strawberry reef just identified 21 for me and eliminated the fake ones in a lot of 24. I only have 180 more to go

Strawberry is Amazing. She knows her ponies for sure.

I would still like to know the best source as to how to price these as I get their names. As for eBay, I only rely on sold prices. Listing prices are worth nothing when so over priced they don't sell. I would be happy to purchase a collector book that pretty much covers the whole pile.

I have seen a couple of ponies sell for what I thought was obscene prices. I know my pricing will be very fair because I just want to free up space

Thanks for all the help. This is a great group of dedicated equestrians.

But as for me, my passion is collecting Winnie the Pooh, antique children's tea sets, books and antique etched crystal stemware.

 

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Bluerose on the Trading Post has a pricing website

 

[tulagirl]

When it comes to G3 prices most sell quite low. There are only a few that are worth a nice price. G1 ponies have a few high sellers. It is a lot of work to sell ponies. I have found selling antique dolls was not near as difficult as dealing with pony collectors and pony listings lol. I think all of us pony collectors are going to have to accept flaws soon because, they are going to appear far faster than we want them too and I doubt our precious vinyls will last to 100 years without major problems. Those problems will become the new normal. We need cold storage with no oxygen is that even possible? Yea Space!

 

[Janis]

And it is because I have no interest in doing the work to sell all these ponies that they can go cheap. I have a total of 233 ranging the gamut. I am only interested in keeping about 10 to compliment the playsets they go with. I have a few G1, some G4 and some old Hasbro besides G3 and 5, and then the McDonald premiums. I have a number of duplicates. At this point I am open to offers. They need to go. I still have to move hundreds of littlest pet shop and boxes full of Polly pocket, 13 dollhouses, 0ver 300 little people and boxes full of doll furniture. I could fill a large u- haul with just these and my calico critters and Winnie the Pooh alone would take another large haul. Geez I think I over did spoiling the grandkids. Wait until they get big enough for jewelry. That's a lot easier to manage

 

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When it comes to G3 prices most sell quite low. There are only a few that are worth a nice price. G1 ponies have a few high sellers. It is a lot of work to sell ponies. I have found selling antique dolls was not near as difficult as dealing with pony collectors and pony listings lol. I think all of us pony collectors are going to have to accept flaws soon because, they are going to appear far faster than we want them too and I doubt our precious vinyls will last to 100 years without major problems. Those problems will become the new normal. We need cold storage with no oxygen is that even possible? Yea Space!

I just imagined a bunch of ponies floating around in astronaut suits by saturn