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I’d probably sell it as-is; a collector will know how to fix it up. When cleaning things like Le Creuset and Cathrineholm there’s a risk of knocking down the shine.
I agree that it’s Kaa — I like the way that the creator used the grain in the wood to evoke Kaa’s hypnotic eyes.
Great insights. Thanks so much for sharing this. I have a mixed lot of vintage bathroom supplies to list and would definitely have wasted precious title space prior to reading.
Thanks for all the thoughts. The VPN idea is brilliant.
I am definitely braced for continuing problems with this buyer, who has simply reinforced my ideas about lowballers and low-dollar sales generally. This disaster of a sale is part of an ongoing (and failing) experiment in online sourcing in new (to me) categories. I’ll keep you updated if more unfolds.
Buyer has been blocked.
In re: death piles — since the virus hit, I’m looking at them in a much more positive light. If it weren’t for what used to be my “death piles” I wouldn’t have had anything new to list since the shut down in March.
Post-pandemic, I’ll have to unlearn some of this new thinking or be overrun. 🙂
My last negative is just about to age out of visibility, so it’s definitely worth it to me.
Although I was sorely tempted to cancel the sale (I agree with you that a negative is likely still on the way, D&C) and/or send various nasty messages, I ended up sending a nice note (with perhaps a soupçon of passive aggression) and refunding the shipping.Thanks, everyone, for walking and talking me through it.
It’s probably worth it to run it by one or more of the named auction houses (Sotheby’s, Christie’s, whatever) to see what they think, just to be safe. I’d hate to be that random person on the internet giving lousy advice and costing someone tens of thousands of dollars. The next steps would depend on what the experts say about the pieces.
I think the answer might be different for different business models — fast nickel v. slow dime, lots of small sales vs. fewer large sales, whatever — but, that said, I feel like that whatever the item is, it has to be worth the time for you to list it. So, to use your example, at what price point is your 20 minutes of listing no longer worth it? If you can get $25 for the damaged lithograph, is that worth it? $50? $100? What’s the lowest acceptable price for you to list any item?
Or am I just rephrasing your question and not getting you any closer to an answer? 🙂
Pre-pandemic, I didn’t feel like it was worth my time (I work semi-full-time during the school year, have multiple children, and have other obligations) to sell anything that wouldn’t net me at least $20-30. The time and stress involved in listing and shipping wasn’t worth it for less on a per-hour basis at that point. Now that the school year is over and the pandemic is upon us, I’m listing at lower prices and taking lower offers than I would have before. I’m hungrier for income and I have vastly more time to list and ship. So now, maybe that net price is more like $15.
(At the same time, I feel like I always run into more problem buyers at the lower price points, which adds a whole other dimension to the question.)
TL/DR: How much do you want to make per item, and is your item sellable at that minimum price?
So, the sale in the YouTube comment was from the most limited edition/EA of that print. Prints from larger editions of the “Time Suite” go for less.
It appears (after a not at all extensive search) that the pieces Debit and Credits found are from a run of 150. Some from a smaller 100-piece run are offered on 1st Dibs for a few thousand dollars.
I think the lithographs are a great, great find, and I’ve been very wrong before, but I feel like these are worth about $300 to $750 apiece.
Hey, Jay!
I’ve been selling all along — just less than usual during the school year!! Distance learning was actually great for me; I loved being home and tutoring kids over Google Meets. Super fun. Now it’s summer and I’m trying to load up my eBay store (currently holding steady at +/- $200) before going back (either in person or over the internet) in the fall.
Sourcing, once I get through my death pile, is going to be the biggest challenge. I’ve tried a couple of new-to-me no-contact methods but haven’t found one that really works yet. Maybe I’ll make a post about some of the things I’ve tried and the ensuing comedic failures.
I’m resurrecting this question as I contemplate (for the thousandth time over 12 years) making some improvements to a barn on our property and using it for storage. I don’t intend to put clothing or paintings there, just hardgoods. Right now, it’s fairly open to rodent and things and would need quite a bit of work just to seal it up. I’m trying to run numbers and see if it makes sense to do it. Complicating things is, of course, the pandemic and associated financial hits as well as some other difficulties which have made finances a little more precarious for us.
I think these are signed lithographs rather than serigraphs, just based on how they’re listed by others.
I assume you’ve already gone through and found all this info, including listings and price results, but here are some links:
Set of 4 from the 1977 edition offered for (not yet sold) $5,500
https://www.artbrokerage.com/Salvador-Dali/Ivanhoe-Suite-Set-of-4-32302This site has some info about the different series and how they were numbered:
http://doubletakeart.com/salvador_dali/Ivanhoe_Suite-8420.html#.XvncR2pKhQIThe set of 4, also from the set of 150, sold for $1,500 in 2013
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/18681612_prints-salvador-dali-ivanhoe-suiteMixed set of 3 sold for $1,000
https://www.lofty.com/products/3-after-dali-prints-from-suite-ivanhoe-tarot-1-v11s4Awesome find. Always buy the whole set! 🙂
