Legal question or not?
 

I have been going through all my quilting stuff that I have purchased over the few years that I have been quilting and it seems that I have purchased an over abundance of quilts kits and patterns. I was was wondering, if I decided to sell some of them (obviously they haven't been opened) could I do it on ebay or am I breaking any copyright laws or any other laws that might be out there? Right now I am not sure what I want to do with some of them but as I go through it all I realize that I could live to be 110 years old and not finish all that I have. Any help or suggestions on this would be appreciated.

You can sell you kits or any other quilt supplies you have. Just take a look on E-bay. All those sellers are not breaking the law.

You can sell them or give them away or throw them out -- you bought them, so you can dispose of them as you wish.

Copyright would only be an issue if you decided to photocopy/scan/photograph/mimeograph the patterns and directions and then distribute those (either for money or for free). If you try to sell many, many kits and patterns, you might trigger the attention of the original author or publisher, and they might contact you -- that has happened in very rare cases. But once you established that you were simply a big fan whose eyes were bigger than her estloe (estimated stitching time left on earth), I can't imagine that there would be any issue.

Well done going through the collection and passing along some goodies for another person to take on. I always find it very freeing to reduce the backlog.

You have a right to resell things you have bought (or been given). What you cannot do is make Xerox copies of a pattern of someone else's to sell or give away.

Used, new, open or unopened, it doesn't make a difference in selling. Have a yard sale.

You can almost sell anything on eBay except for copies made of quilt patterns. That is why it is legal to cut up a quilting magazines and sell the patterns individually.

If you bought them legally, you can resell them wherever, whenever & for whatever price you'd like per the First Sale Doctrine as long as you keep the original copyright information with what you're selling (e.g., must also include the packaging of a pattern or the copyright page at the front of a book/magazine)
https://www.justice.gov/usam/crimina...-sale-doctrine

Should I take it out of the original packaging so you can't tell who the original vendor is?

I think most people would pay more if it's in original packaging.

Would love for you to put them in the sale section of the Quilting Board! I don't buy a lot due to limited income but you might have something I'd splurge on!