Help with brass pricing and where to sell

lackskill

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Looong time lurker, first time poster. I recently purchased a lot of reloading equipment and supplies from a friend moving out of the country. I kept the stuff from it that I have a use for, sold the easy stuff to other friends, and now I'm left with a couple thousand pieces of brass. Mostly .308. All of it looks like range pickups. I'm having trouble figuring out where to sell this stuff and find reasonable pricing comparisons. I'm not trying to make my fortunes off this, just be rid of it and recoup some of my investment.

I prefer not to ship and try to keep a small digital footprint, so places like gunbroker are not appealing to me. Any reloading supplies violate the craigslist TOS and are very quick to be flagged as such in my area. In the moments where my craigslist ads have been active, I've gotten some response, but almost always get quickly ghosted. An obvious choice would be to list here, but I've got some work to do to be an upstanding member prior to that.

I've looked at pricing on several sites that sell bulk fired brass, discounted my prices between 30-50% from their pricing, yet still can't get so much as a lowball offer from people. At first I tried to sell the 308 as bulk mixed lots. Didn't get anywhere with that, so now I have sorted (and removed bad peices), and still have no luck. It's not all junk and none of it is berdan. I'm having trouble with the idea of throwing it all away, but it may come to that soon as I need the space for storing stuff I actually want. Do people actually use places like Armslist or Tacswap that charge a membership fee to even be a buyer?
 
Maybe the user name explains it.

Hard to sell if you prefer not to ship and won't say where you are.
or communicate! no joke OP, but feel free to express yourself here. There is a wealth of knowledge just 1-2 questions away! I hate to see good brass go to the scrap yard. You can also trade. Just do it over PM until you get the points to the “For Sale” area!
 
Don't throw it away if you can't sell it. Scrap brass is going for something like $1.50 to $2.00/lb. In my book that's worth finding a nearby scrap yard and driving there.
308 and 223 is very common and has been widely available for a long time. If you have lake city the AR crowd seems keen on it, and some of the head stamps are sought after. I would never throw it away, but recycling is a wonderful option. If you don't want to be bothered put it in your recycling bin.
 
Lots here including me would be interested in 308. Not hard to throw in flat rate box. Most I buy here I usually send green money so makes it easy. Assuredly this is better than Craigslist. Post and comment to raise your count so you can sell.
 
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