Light up Box Signs

**EuclidPrime** · 06-16-2016, 02:02 PM

so I found a light up box sign outside some college housing for a cell phone company.
Anyone here ever resell these things to vendors of the products at all ?
If anything I would hope that the skeleton would be worth a few dollars outside of just mutilating it for the wire.

Regards,

**HipoGear** · 06-16-2016, 03:03 PM

I would think that if you tried to sell it back to the company, they would just claim ownership of it. I mean it was theirs originally.

Signs have great collectible value, but usually just the older stuff. If you could sit on it for forty years or so it just might be worth a mint.

**Scrappah** · 06-16-2016, 04:26 PM

It's definitely a niche item. Could be a hard sell. You would have to do a bit of networking to find a buyer.

Advertising signs are important to many business owners. They can also be pretty frugal so the idea of keeping the skeleton and replacing the plastic could be appealing. If it's a standard size it wouldn't be very much trouble to make a plastic insert with their company info on it.

You might do a little research on it to see what the cost of new is vs re-signing. Suppose it depends on what kind you've got cause they vary in cost & quality.

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**Pnutfarmer** · 06-19-2016, 02:48 PM

In my experience, the vendors themselves (not the retail product company on the sign but the maker) don't usually buy them at all. The ones I've dealt with bid on contracts for many of the same sign and then produce the number they need for the customer. Used signs just take up space for them and they don't need inventory lying around waiting on someone to need it. They also get plenty of used signs when they put up new ones for customers. I once got a job to clean up their boneyard and got 3 semi truck loads of signs.