For families, heirs and executors
You inherited a collection.
Find out what you have before you take anyone’s offer.
You have no idea what it’s worth. There are too many pieces to go through. And the people offering to help are the people who want to buy it. Start with a written plan: an honest, independent opinion from someone who isn’t trying to buy it.
Sound familiar?
It could be worth $200 or $5,000, and you honestly have no idea.
There are thousands of pieces and nobody has the time to go through them.
You can’t get a straight value from anyone who isn’t trying to buy it.
You’d hate to see it go for less than it’s worth.
A written plan, or the whole collection listed.
The Collection Strategy Plan
$99
Not sure where to start? Send pictures of up to 50 items. Within 3 business days you get a written strategy for your collection: what you have, what pieces like it have sold for, what to list one by one, what to sell in lots, and what, if anything, belongs at an auction house. Those 50 items come back as finished listings, free. Then, if you want, a 15-minute call to go over it together. It’s a plan, not an appraisal.
Get the $99 plan→The Collection Package
$799
Listings of your entire collection, done for you. Every item identified, titled, priced and ready to list on your own account, lots included, with a summary of what you have. If your eBay account is new, your file comes with a suggested order, best items first, so you’re never stuck.
Order the package→Up to 1,000 items. Each extra 1,000, $499. After you pay, Stripe sends you to the page where you send the pictures. You’re buying from NJP Assets. That is the name on your receipt and your card statement.
Why the offer you got feels low
Anyone who buys a whole collection for cash has to resell it and be paid for the work. That’s fair, and it’s why the number is what it is. You’re paying for speed.
The other way is to sell each piece to the person who wants that piece. It brings more, and it has always meant months of work that most families don’t have.
What I do, and what I don’t
I don’t buy collections, so I have no reason to tell you yours is worth less than it is.
I list it for you on your own eBay account, or coach you to do it yourself, using the system I built to take the months out of it. And if selling it is the wrong answer for you, I’ll say so.
Icons of History
Famous pieces, shown as examples of what people bring us.
Cover by Lou Fine
What the plan answers
- What is actually in here?
- What have pieces like these really sold for?
- Which few pieces matter, and what do I do with the rest?
- Should any of it go to an auction house instead of eBay?
- How many hours would it take to sell it properly?
- Is it worth doing at all?
If the honest answer is “sell the three best pieces at auction and let the rest go in lots,” the plan will say that. If the honest answer is “this isn’t worth your time,” it will say that too.
If you don’t want a new job
Selling a thousand pieces is work even with the listing done for you: packing, shipping, answering buyers. Some families want that and some don’t.
The plan tells you what it would take, in hours, before you decide. I’d rather you know now.
Nikolas Palchikoff
NJP Assets
I’ve watched families get robbed on collections. Someone spends a lifetime building something real, and when it’s time to sell, it goes for a fraction of what it’s worth because nobody had the time or the system to do it right.
Nikolas Palchikoff, founder, NJP Assets. A former Wall Street executive who now builds and runs customized systems for his own companies.
Questions people ask first.
- What is in the $799 Collection Package?
- Listings of your entire collection, done for you. Every item identified, titled, priced and ready to list on your own account, lots included, with a summary of what you have. If your eBay account is new, your file comes with a suggested order, best items first, so you’re never stuck. Up to 1,000 items. Each extra 1,000, $499.
- What is the $99 Collection Strategy Plan?
- Not sure where to start? Send pictures of up to 50 items. Within 3 business days you get a written strategy for your collection: what you have, what pieces like it have sold for, what to list one by one, what to sell in lots, and what, if anything, belongs at an auction house. Those 50 items come back as finished listings, free. Then, if you want, a 15-minute call to go over it together. It’s a plan, not an appraisal.
- My eBay account is new. Does that matter?
- eBay limits how much a new account can sell each month at first and raises the limit as you sell. Your file comes with a suggested order, best items first, so you are never stuck.
- Is the plan an appraisal?
- No. It shows what pieces like yours have recently sold for and tells you how to sell them. If you need a certified appraisal for insurance, tax or an estate, you need a licensed appraiser, and I’ll say so.
- An auction house will look at it for free. Why pay?
- They will, and for a few top pieces an auction house may be the right place. A free look comes from someone who earns when you sell through them. You’re paying me for a plan for the whole collection, including the parts nobody else wants to handle.
- Do you buy collections?
- No.
- Do I need to know what I have?
- No. Send photos. That’s what the written plan is for.
- What if my collection isn’t worth much?
- Then I’ll tell you. On the free call if it’s obvious, in the plan if it takes a closer look.