If you have a train collection that you are considering selling to Trainz within the next 12 months, you can provide an inventory list, and if the collection meets our Buying Guidelines, we will value the collection in order to make a Cash Offer. Except for Estate Planning and Estate Sales we typically do not provide appraisals as a service.įor Estate Planning and Estate Sales, we will inventory and appraise medium to large collections for a fee when the estate is considering selling the collection to Trainz. The web form streamlines the buying process and contains logic which will tell you if your collection is likely to meet our Buying Guidelines. The easiest way is to fill out our Get a Quote web form. How can I tell if Trainz will be interested in my collection?.Yes! We absolutely buy brass trains, especially in G, O and HO scales. We recently purchased a gorgeous HO brass trains deal in California, and a rare museum-quality Sn3 brass trains deal. Just to name a few manufacturers, we regularly buy: Lionel, MTH, K-Line, LGB, Marklin, American Flyer, Atlas, Weaver, Williams, Aristo-Craft, Bachmann, Marx, USA Trains, Athearn, Walthers, Plasticville, Life Like, Kato, Industrial Rail, Roco, Pola, Rivarossi, Model Power, Proto 2000, KMT, Gargraves, Roundhouse, MicroTrains, MRC, 3rd Rail, Con-Cor, IHC, AHM, S-Helper, American Models, Fleischmann, Spectrum, Delton, Crown, InterMountain, McCoy, Mantua, Ives, Tyco, RMT, Overland, Lima, Piko, Pride Lines, and many more! Our bread and butter is O Scale Trains (Lionel in particular), but we also buy a ton of G Scale, Standard Gauge and Brass, and a fair bit of S, HO, N and Z Scale trains. We've bought and sold toy and model trains of every scale and manufacturer, and sometimes purchase die-cast toys, model kits, and other collectibles. What scales and manufacturers does Trainz buy and sell?.We’d love to talk to you about purchasing your collection! Over the years, we have purchased many collections valued at $500,000 or more, and several collections worth over $1 million. No! There is no collection too large for Trainz. My collection is very large and very valuable.Lower-value collections where there is a lot of box-matching labor required are tough for us, and we will sometimes choose to pass on these collections.Conversely, we sometimes choose to pass on collections if they contain many common or inexpensive items where most of the items in the collection are worth less than $30 each. We are sometimes interested in collections if they contain just a few valuable pieces.We are usually interested in looking at *all* train collections that are Brass, O Scale, Standard Gauge or G Scale.Trainz buys model train collectibles (our bread and butter) and some other non-train collectibles.In general, if a collection is worth substantially more than $1,000 then Trainz is interested.Can you provide Guidelines on what types of collections Trainz buys?Ī good rule of thumb is that Trainz will typically offer to purchase collections only if we can offer at least $1,000.If you have a large collection, please Contact Us. Typically, we do not buy from outside of North America. We can do mail-in deals from Alaska, Hawaii or other US territories like Puerto Rico. We purchase model train collections and other collectibles across the continental United States and Canada. Yes! Although Trains are our bread and butter, the Trainz Buying Team purchases Star Wars collectibles, promo cars, and a smattering of other collectibles such as die-cast toys and plastic model kits. Please see our Buying Guidelines for more detail. Does Trainz buy collectibles other than trains?.
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If you would like to receive a monthly email containing train buying stories and tips on how to sell your collectible trains, go ahead and subscribe to our free newsletter with no obligation and no strings attached. Some of these tips can be found in our archives of our Selling Your Trains Newsletter. If we are not interested in buying your collection, we will try to be helpful by providing tips and information on other ways to sell your trains. Does Trainz make cash offers for *any* train collection?Īlthough we buy a whole lot of trains, you may be surprised to hear that there are some train collections that don’t make sense for us to buy.
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