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Right now nothing is film and very few people in the industry are buying.
Wait till Stranger Things ramps back up again – the 80’s will sell….
@RetroTreasures good point – “For Display or Only” or “Movie Prop” may sound fancier than “AS IS” but no one is ever going to use the search term.
#Hausfrau – Yeah figure out the era of the bathroom items and make sure that is in the describe
“Lot 1970’s Bathroom / Medicine Chest Smalls / Medicines / bandaids”. Use fewer brand names as those are things that run into clearance issues.
Oh a few more thoughts. EVERYTHING in the film business is a last minute emergency.
We are one of the few groups of people who will pay extra money for fast shipping.
As a seller I only offer economy shipping on my items, because I never trust Ebay to present the lowest shipping price when the masses are browsing.
You could put in your description, willing to ship more quickly if time sensitive- direct message me to arrange.
It is amazing how unimportant an extra $20.00 is when you are spending someone elses money.
For large high ticket items it is not uncommon for the buyer to want to send you their own Fed Ex label. As long as the address on the label matches the one on your invoice you should be protected. Don’t let that offer frighten you (particularly if they have a high feedback rating).
And if you can, respond to messages immediately. Unless what you are selling is 100% unique there is a good chance the buyer will move onto a similar item if they don’t hear from you.
@Temudgin I think of the snakes in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure every-time I walk past my death pile and I make the same face.
But when you finally list that item (and it sells)
you be like
Good information @ Retro Treasures, I never thought of the VPNs messing with location.
If you cancel the order by saying “problem with the address” you won’t get a defect. You might get caught, but doubtful. I would rather have a defect than deal with a crazy person who is just going to return the thing anyway.
She is going to leave negative feedback anyway- Just cancel the order and block her.
Use the option problem with shipping address.
She will through a tantrum, but that is what she wanted anyway.
@So Cal Joe & Clarity ah I see that’s what someone is asking for a good one. I misread and thought it had previously been sold.
I might as well list an see what happens. Rather than focus on this specific piece of art, I would like to push this thread back to the general question – “When is something just junk?”
For those of us who don’t have anchor stores, it costs $1.20 per year to keep an item listen (10 cents per listing for 12 months – I think lower tiers may even be .25 a month). These fees add up! I currently have a 2k inventory in a 1k store – that’s $1,200.00 per year.
But more than the money, there is opportunity cost. I have only so much storage space and only so much time to list. If I spent 20 minutes listing a damaged lithograph, it is 20 minutes that I am not listing something else.
There are no right answers here; I am just curious how others approach this problem.
Oh wow I looked and did not see that could you post a link to the other listing?
Oh the agony! So many choices 🙂
Thanks – formulating a plan now….
Thanks, Jay
You are exactly right – it’s a fun rabbit hole. If this truly is a 10k find (again pretty sure it’s not – especially since print #4 is with someone else), then a payment to an auction house might be the best way to go.
Why buy a Gucci bag direct from a fancy shop in Beverly Hills when you can get a used one for 1/3rd the price on eBay? Because some people like paying more at the fancy store. I want to put these lithographs in front of the fancy people. Do people with enough disposable income to pay 10k for Dali prints shop on eBay? I am sure that the Dealers who sell to the people who pay 10k for Dali prints are on eBay. I don’t want to sell to a high-end trash-elf reseller. I want to sell directly to an art collector.
That’s the fun of all of this; I have minimal capital invested in these prints. I can take my time to figure out the best way to sell them.
I’ll be sure to report my findings back here.
@ MDC Galleries any advice / thoughts on the next steps?
Are you selling wants or needs?
There are ethics involved with charging what the market will bear for needs. But you aren’t selling penicillin, kidneys or hand sanitizer.
For every item you sell with a $50+ profit, how many do you sell and only make a couple bucks?
Feel no guilt!
Amen!
I am sure they will not fetch 10k apiece. But if I had something valued at 10k (or even 2-3k) I would be cautious about listing on Ebay. Ebay doesn’t offer sellers the same protections as buyers, I’m willing to tak the risk for a $200 item but not something worth thousands. I think there are probably better markets to list fine art. I don’t know what they are (this is part of my research), but I am pretty sure they exist.
Just saw a couple types and word press hates revisions. That should say “NOTE: Any blurring you see at the edges of the images are from my cheap clip-on macro lens, not the prints”
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