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I thought the same thing as well. It has a very wrong feel for me. Although there are many times that Chinese is improperly translated for legitimate items, this screams counterfeit to me.
If your state charges sales tax on estate sales, have pre-filled sales tax exempt forms on hand. In Texas, many estate sales are now charging sales tax.
If you send pictures of all sides of the item and send those to replacements.com they will probably be able to identify it. I have had great luck identifying all types of china with them but only use it as a last resort if I can’t identify it myself. I typically tell them that I am looking to buy additional pieces to match this piece… They will identify it and the pattern if possible – all for free…
It looks like it’s possibly a corner to something. You may want to consider removing the commas and the word or from your title. You have 80 characters that you can use in your title. You should use it all. Every time. Fill it up with good, relevant keywords in an order that makes sense to the reader. NOT a bunch of keywords thrown together. The title and the gallery picture are what need to draw in your customer. Think outside the box. Who would want this and what could you use it for? Look at the shape of the item. Add in those extra words to fill up your title. No need to put any punctuation marks. When I see this piece I think:
Corner
Shell
Brass
Vintage
Hardware
Furniture
Bed
Chair
Art DecoGarage sales, estate sales, yard sales, craigslist, storage locker auctions (occasionally) and thrift stores (only if we really have to). We sell just about everything from vintage electronics, clothing, new in box items, books, figurines, you name it. We try to stay away from furniture due to the logistics of storing large items. We have 3 rules… (1) not stolen (2) not illegal to own or sell (3) smoke-free. Basically if we think we can sell it for at least 10X more than what we pay for it, we buy it… We go picking on Friday and Saturday mornings and spend the rest of the week preparing, photographing and listing. It’s a grind for sure.
Awe that is very sweet! Anyone can do what we do. You just need to be hard working and tenacious! Plus having a support group like this really helps. We dove straight in and did not follow any blogs or websites for many years… It’s nice to find a community of people that do the same thing.
You may want to add the word “Finial” as many interior designers would look for that…
We’ve been selling now for over 5 years full time. It was full time from day one because we had just lost our family business, lost all of our savings/retirement and my wife was laid off from her corporate job. We were both unemployed and desperate so we began selling our own stuff on eBay to survive. We ran out of our own things to sell pretty quickly so we started scavenging. Within 2 months we were grossing $5-6k per month so we decided to keep doing it until something better came along. It never did lol so we have been doing this ever since. We dabbled in Amazon FBA but now are mostly eBay and CL. We’ve had ups and downs but we currently gross $7-$8k per month on eBay alone.
