Hoarding/Flipping golf clubs

[nickjdavis]

Forgot....I've also got a Miura Giken MGP-M2 putter lying around doing nothing......its like a beautiful mistress that you keep in the cellar but don't use because you are trying to be faithful to the wife, despite her misbehaving now and again.

 

[Mandofred]

I get rid of things. I do have a side saddle putter that I tried last year that just wouldn't work for me......probably taking it in to the pro shop and they eventually sell it through one of the sites.

 

[jim8flog]

I had a period when I was a real flipper.

14 sets of irons in a year when searching for a new set when changing from stiff to regular shafts ending up wishing I had kept the first set I tried.

These days a bit of hoarder simply on the basis that the clubs I have got do not reach the price I want for them on ebay and some clubs not worth the bother of selling them.

 

[Voyager EMH]

Cobra F Speed driver 10.5° regular - £25 in 2010
Cobra F Speed driver 9° stiff - £26 in 2022
Cobra F Speed 3-wood - £16 in 2022
Cobra baffler hybrid 16° - £25 in 2010
Cobra baffler hybrid 20° - £14 in 2022
Cobra baffler hybrid 23° - £12 in 2024

Ping G10 3&4 and i10 5-PW with Ping UW 52° bought brand new in 2008 using mainly pro shop credit. I think I had to top up with a cheque to the pro for about £170. But that purchase included Ping G10 driver, 3-wood and hybrid that I disposed of on Ebay last year.
Ben Sayers Opel Line One putter - £25 brand new in 1989.
Ram 64° wedge - £39 brand new some time in the 1990s

In more recent years,
Daiwa Trypower TCS blades 3-PW - £28
Reid Lockhart blades - 3-SW - £85
Ping Eye2 BeCu 3-SW - £40

Lots of other wedges from Ebay for peanuts.

The above is what I play handicap qualifying games with and some social golf like today.

20 full sets of vintage clubs from 1960s, 70s, and early 80s with some extra woods, wedges and putters. Several bags. I blame @Crow for this addiction.
These were accumulated over the last 3 and a half years at about net zero cost due to buying and selling similar stuff at profit.

Something like 350 clubs maybe. Definitely a hoarder, but I've been thrifty in the extreme.

1977 to 1992 I had Maxfli International irons 2-SW (I still have the SW)
1992 to 2008 I had Ram Laser Fx irons 1-SW (I kept the 1-iron this time)
2008 to now Ping G10/i10 3-PW and 52°W
Not much of a flipper - quite the opposite whatever that is called.

 

[IanM]

I pretty much move surplus stuff ASAP before value drops any further. Saves space too.

 

[PJ87]

Flipper, I don't like the temptation to return to old equipment when the new stuff has been fitted or whatever and you need to keep at it rather than go back

Could have kept my old irons as a spare set but what's point when my colleague was looking for irons and got a fair price on them

 

[KenL]

I’ve sold quite a few things to golfclubs4cash over the last few years.
Moved on from using eBay due to fees but I hear they are less now.

 

[moogie]

I’ve sold quite a few things to golfclubs4cash over the last few years.
Moved on from using eBay due to fees but I hear they are less now.

No selling fees at all now on ebay....

No idea why they've done that
But loving it all the same

 

[KenL]

No selling fees at all now on ebay....

No idea why they've done that
But loving it all the same

No listing or sales commission fees at all?
How are they making money, from advertising?

 

[Backache]

Don't buy many clubs, son plays with my old ones.