Easy Trading In Your Golf Clubs(1)

when I was a kid, we used to cut covers off golf balls, unwind the rubber stringing like a puzzle and speculate about what kind of toxic poison liquid was inside the remaining core. Fun stuff. I might as well be describing the engine in a Model T.

Fast forward to 2010: Apparently, I’m among the last to know that, thanks to a variety of companies and websites, trading in your golf clubs is now as easy and as common as trading in a car.

Your old clubs may not be worth a fortune in trade-in — just like your old car — but now there are avenues where you can trade or sell your equipment or golf accessories.

You already know about eBay and Craigslist. I decided to investigate the golf-specific sites and see what kind of deal I could make. Here are the sites I visited, and what I found out.

PGA.com Value Guide (valueguide.pga.com)
This is kind of like the Kelley Blue Book of used clubs. It bills itself, in fact, as “The National Standard for Golf Club Values.” It’s a good starting point. You can browse clubs by type or by brand. I’ve got a set of Ping i10 irons, brand new, and I want to see what they’re worth. I click into their index of Ping clubs and find the i10 iron set with steel shafts.

The resale value of my clubs, however, sounds a lot better. Resale value is what the clubs would go for if I tried to sell them myself, maybe on eBay, or if a golf retailer sold them, or sell discount golf clubs. The range there is $312 to $428, with an average price of $355. I can pretty much afford a new driver with that.

All right, selling the clubs myself is too much of a hassle. Sad to say, I don’t actually know how to take a photo with my cell phone camera and put it up on eBay, so I’m going the trade-in route. This is incredibly easy. All I do is get my estimate, print out a pre-paid UPS shipping label, box the clubs and send them in. In the return mail, I get a certificate for the value we agreed upon. Pretty slick. I also could’ve taken my credit to the local Dick’s Sporting Goods, which is part of the PGA network.

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