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DoodlebearsI have loads of teddy bear magazines that I wish to get rid of...any suggestions? Most have one or two patterns inside, there's no way I would just throw them out.
Hugs, Jane. 
Many people sell them on ebay and get a decent price for them.
Emo BearsI agree, sell them on eBay - i often buy second hand magazines for the patterns - Copies of Australian Bear creations especially get a fair bit of money usually but I bought loads of copies of Teddy Bear Scene.
The advice I give, is on your listings, include photos of the bears that the patterns will make - if someone just lists a bear magazine, I won't buy incase it doesn't have patterns, or if it does, if I don't like the patterns. I like to see a picture of what I can make with the free patterns - that way I know whether to bid and, if I like the pattern I will bid a certain amount, If I LOVE the pattern, I'm willing to pay a fair bit more.
Back Road BearsIf you don't want to go the eBay route you and were willing to donate them you might contact craft shops, especially independently owned ones, not chain stores. They might use them for a bear making class or put them out for customers to take at least.
Art teachers in schools might like them for the kids to cut up and do collages or de coupage with.
I have a lot of back issues too but the task of lisiting them on ebay is way too time consuming for me. However, that's where you'll get money for them and they'll likely go to someone genuinely interested in making bears.
In the past I've taken mine to teddy bear shows when I'm exhibiting and put them out for $1 each. I once had a collector buy the whole stack (50+)! I didn't have to schlepp them back home again and had more room in my studio for other stuff so I was happy!
What about putting an ad in the local newspaper if they have a classified section for such a thing. You could charge at least enough to cover the cost of the ad. Then someone locally could pick them up, you woudn't have to ship anything... nice and easy!
I sometimes include a back issue in with a bear when I'm posting to collectors - I usually try to make it a magazine from a country outside their own, something they may not have bought for themselves.
I have loads of teddy bear magazines that I wish to get rid of...any suggestions? Most have one or two patterns inside, there's no way I would just throw them out.
Hugs, Jane. :thumbsup: :rose: :thumbsup:
What do you have, and going back how far? I'd be interested in possibly buying some or all off you depending on how many you have, of course -- there will come a point (since you're also in the UK) where the postage outstrips the contents of what you're sending, otherwise. :)
-- Thomas Adam
DoodlebearsThanks everyone for the ideas so far. I have two huge piles of magazines and I really need to use the space for bear fabric storage.
Thomas I have Teddy Bear Times, Teddy Bear club International, Teddy Bear Scene and a few Teddy Bear Review (American ) magazines. These all go back over some years, many have patterns.
Hugs, Jane.
Jane --
Thanks everyone for the ideas so far. I have two huge piles of magazines and I really need to use the space for bear fabric storage.
Thomas I have Teddy Bear Times, Teddy Bear club International, Teddy Bear Scene and a few Teddy Bear Review (American ) magazines. These all go back over some years, many have patterns.
Send me an email or a private message -- I'd be beary (sic) interested. :)
-- Thomas Adam
Posts: 751Jane,
Can you help me. I think it is issue 38 of TBCI has a pattern for "Oakley" a pattern I made for Oakley Fabrics.
I would love the original magazine and have it along side the original Oakley which I bought back when Oakley Fabrics finished.
Karon
Wild Thyme OriginalsKaron... I'm PMing you as well...
I'd be happy to look through my issues of TBCI to see if I have the issue you speak of.
Kim Basta
Jane, I didn't think earlier, but if you come across the millenium (Jan 2000) issue of TBT with my article about my collection of Chilterns in it, I'd be happy to buy it from you ... I lost mine when I moved house!
When I have extras, I leave them places....dentist, doctor...you never know where the next new collector will come from. I have had people come to shows that told me they found out about the "teddy bear world" from seeing a magazine. A lot of people don't know they exist. So, whatever you can't sell, just leave it for someone else to find...could be a treasure for them.
I just remembered, it may also attract them to subscribe to the magazine too...we need to keep those magazines in business!!
Jane I noticed a few sellers at Hugglets had a pile of mags for sale at one end of their stand and quite a few people seemed to be browsing through them.....it would be a captive audience too! 
:hug:
Boechout, AntwerpHi Jane,
At the local bears & dolls fairs we have here in Belgium, there is always one stand that only sells old issues of local (Dutch) teddy bear magazines and I think they sell quite well.
However I'm also interested in older issues of TBT and all issues of Teddy Bear Scene and Teddy Bear Review (I haven't got any of those) : if you're interested, send me a mail and I'm sure we"ll come to some arrangement (peter.masscharis@telenet.be).
Hugs,
Peter
Hi Jane
No pressure at all, if you can get something for them please do, - but if you have some left over after selling them, I am wanting things to sell to raise funds for my WSPA Bear Trek - I have still got about £1000 to raise. I could take them off you at Stratford. Hugs, Dawn xx
