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A friend who used to reload gave me his press and associated items and I have little idea as to the value before I put it in the Buy/Sell. The brass is my once fired Hornady Creedmoor so I can take a guess at the market rate for that, but for the other stuff I'm really at a loss. Ballpark ideas to help me price it fairly? I'm not a rifle/handgun reloader.
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Look up retail prices for each item then adjust for being used. Then upgrade your account to “Supporter” so you can post it all in the PX.

Folks are always looking for reloading equipment so if you price things right it should all go quickly.
 
Well, I know the reloader is a Dillon 550, but outside of the scale and bullets, I wouldn't be able to even describe most of the other stuff.
Just type each into Google and prices will appear. It’s not rocket science. Then adjust for used vs new/retail. Do a search on here for PX sales of those same items.
 
Personally, I would recommend you start reloading rifle and/or handgun. That is an excellent kit for a intermediate reloader. Find someone who uses the 550 and ask them to help you set it up and show you the process. You buy burgers.

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MrSmith
Turns out I'm getting into shotgun reloading as my rifle and handgun trips have been mostly replaced by sporting clays stuff. I take my Tikka out only about 3-4 times a year to ring steel and go through less than 2 boxes per trip, so I don't mind buying the Hornady 140s or 147s and calling it good.

On a weekend I shoot around 100 shells or more with my shotgun, or around 200-400 a month.
 
I paid $625 shipped less than a year ago for nearly the same amount of stuff from a guy online.
It was for a Dillion 550 C and most of those accessories, a few dies and one powder hopper. No scale but that’s a beam and not super desirable these days probably.
I considered that a great deal.
The press costs about that. You could start around $1000 shipped and see what bites.
 
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I'd be *really* surprised if somebody paid $500 for all that. It's piddling quality stuff and if you check ebay you'll see the press isn't even worth much. Nobody getting started wants to start with old/oddball equipment - penny wise and pound foolish. Good luck if you try to sell. Please DM me if I'm wrong and you net a handsome sum.
 
I paid $625 shipped less than a year ago for nearly the same amount of stuff from a guy online.
It was for a Dillion 550 C and most of those accessories, a few dies and one powder hopper. No scale but that’s a beam and not super desirable these days probably.
I considered that a great deal.
The press costs about that. You could start around $1000 shipped and see what bites.

There are dillon 550s on eBay right now for buy it now prices of right around 300 bucks.
 
There are dillon 550s on eBay right now for buy it now prices of right around 300 bucks.
Stripped bare.

Try adding any of the accessories and it adds up quickly. $1000 is probably very high but in reality all the stuff he has there, if needed, is a great deal at $700 shipped. Having additional powder hoppers so you don’t have to change bars and additional tool blocks to keep dies permanently in.
 
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Wish I had friends like yours.
Those steel things with 4 die holes are called tool heads. I see 6 of them. They go for $20+ new, so maybe $15 apiece.
There's two with powder measures attached. Maybe $100 each.
Some primer pickup tubes. Not much.
Hammer-looking thing is a bullet puller. Not much.
And 6 sets of dies. Maybe $15-25 apiece, depending on condition.
All told, 600-$700 maybe.
 
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A friend who used to reload gave me his press and associated items and I have little idea as to the value before I put it in the Buy/Sell. The brass is my once fired Hornady Creedmoor so I can take a guess at the market rate for that, but for the other stuff I'm really at a loss. Ballpark ideas to help me price it fairly? I'm not a rifle/handgun reloader.
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Ok, the blue press is a Dillon RL550. I can't tell if it is a 550B or a 550C. Looking at the ram, that press is in good condition. There are 6 toolheads - 2 with dies, one with a powder thrower and unknown dies, the other 8x57 no powder thrower. There are two powder throwers mounted to toolheads. There are three primer tubes, blue, yellow, and green tips. The silver thing just above the press goes with the press - it catches primers. The blue plastic thing just to the right of the silver thing tells you when you are out of primers - it goes with the press. The black plastic stick with the knob on the end holds down primers and it goes with the press.

There are six die boxes: Hornady 223 rem, Hornady 6.5 creedmoor, two each RCBS 308 FL sizer, Dillon 9mm and Dillon 45acp. The small blue boxes are probably the shellholder and buttons for the dillon dies. One of those boxes may be empty and its dies installed into the toolhead with dies.

The round flat thing, lower right, is a primer flipper. The green hammer-thingy is a kinetic bullet puller. The green box underneath it is a case lube pad.

You know about the scale - as someone else said, it doesn't have much value.

There are two boxes of bullets that I can't read and 300 Hornady 6.5 creed fired cases.

There is a plastic box just below the press with some stuff in it. I don't know what any of that is.

Pricing: go to ebay, look for Dillion 550, sold prices. Do the same on Gunbroker. I'm not going to guess. Dillon stuff generally has good resale value.

If you want to break it up, offer the press, toolheads, powder throwers, primer tubes as a package. Include the die box and shellholder that goes with the toolhead with dies -- or -- remove the dies from the toolhead and put them back into the die box. Throw in the kinetic bullet puller, lube pad, and primer flipper. I would offer the dies as a package. I would offer the brass and bullets as a package. Put the scale on your mantle or donate it to someone just getting started.

If I were buying, I don't need that brass or the dies or the bullets but I would be interested in the press package - that is where most of the value is and I want a second 550. The brass might be worth about $100. All the dies might be worth somewhere around $150 to $200 to someone who wanted all of those calibers.

Good luck!
 
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Thanks for all the replies. I need to upgrade my status to supporter, then post the the stuff so it would offer what some of you want vs the whole thing. I'll work on that tomorrow.