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Ebay has yielded very few sales lately, but a couple:
Thrift store find for $20 sold for $95
/Vintage-Art-Deco-Rhinestone-Tri-Color-Celluloid-Glitter-Bangle-Bracelet-3-4/222727223105?hash=item33db93b741:g:l3oAAOSwUchaE280
online auction, $13 with shipping took an offer of $65
a bread and butter item this Fall–pea coat #3–bought for $15 at a thrift sold quickly for $55
bought online, don’t remind how much I paid but no more than half–it sold for $85
https://www.etsy.com/listing/567669427/vintage-925-peru-sterling-silver-inca?show_sold_out_detail=1
bought online for $20, sold for $55
Business on Etsy is very brisk with multiple sales per day, so not putting on my eggs in ebay’s basket has really paid off.
Since you posted in Lawyerease Temudgin, LOL, a simple question is an item posted in good faith and purchased and paid for subject to ANY sort of binding contract? There has been some case law roughly established for private antique sales, several years ago an old Man brought a Titanic ticket into a local Antique auction house who outright bought it for the $1200 the buyer asked, it sold for in excess of $100,000 and the old man sued and won his case based on the supposed superior knowledge of the auctioneer (not that applicable here but it should be of interest to any pro dealer in antiques.)
I still want to know what J&R’s thinking was on not taking that $600–they had NO idea what the jacket would ultimately earn.
Interesting about the GW auction–that is my local GW and they have had a contract with a company for over 20 years that buy their vintage denim–I wonder what made them decide to auction that pair off?
On the jacket issue, I don’t look at it as a moral issue, but isn’t it a legal issue in some way? isn’t there an implied contract to making a sale on ebay? I am also curious why didn’t you take the buyer’s $600 offer–wasn’t that a decent compromise?
Maybe it is because almost everything I have is antique or vintage but sales do ZERO for me, still not selling anything on ebay, all the action is on Etsy.
DigVintageStuff you make a very compelling case as well–it is exactly what we do in our business, I once found a pair of prints at a yard sale for $50 that I sold for $35,000 did I feel bad for the seller? yes, but you are right, I knew more than he did and that was my reward. What pisses me off are all the aholes who contacted J&R after the sale–they were jealous that the first buyer “scored” and set out to ruin him for it, and so they did. I have had that happen to me before as well, “helpful” ebayer’s telling me I had undersold something after the fact (pity they didn’t contact me while the item was up, LOL) Yes shaky moral ground in many ways–I found you reply very thoughtful.
Like I said before when I initially saw that you sold the jacket for less than it was worth, I used to specialize in vintage denim–my partner would have advised me if I had found that jacket, he has had the brand before. 1920’s and older is considered very old in the denim world. I don’t blame you for not selling it, I would have really had to think long and hard about letting a mistake of that magnitude go–I have made some pricey mistakes, on an Italian pot worth at least double what I got for it (on auction) and a print that also was worth more than twice as much–I did ship those items because I still got hundreds of dollars for them.
Me too–>last 7 days on ebay? ONE sale (and yes I am listing some damn good stuff if I say so myself) on etsy? 15 sales!
How horrible about your cat–I have had several pass away from feline cancer–but they were pretty old at that time, it is never easy, and I agree with Ryanne consider adoption at some point.
Here we go again, LOL, that does not look anything like the photograph of the kid that we know for certain is the kid (that Croquet photo never convinced me either!)I do remember on the antiques roadshow one time when a woman brought in a photo of Edgar Allan Poe that she had purchased in an antique store for $50 or whatever–that was clearly Poe, unfortunately for that woman the photo had been stolen from a museum 30 years ago and she had to turn over the image to the museum.
I haven’t even finished listening to the show yet–but I must know the story on the Hi Ball jacket! did the guy who bought the jacket for $50 not pay? did he return it? How did you determine that it is from the 20’s? I honestly couldn’t determine the age when I looked at the listing last week since the company made jackets until at least the 50’s, at any rate congratulations on the ending auction value–just proves that really old denim is still fetching high prices, and that auctions still work for some rare items. BTW, is the high bidder in Seattle?
I do cross list some things but basically my nicer things and secondly my cheaper things go on etsy–the reason on both is the cheaper fees on etsy, stuff that I get in box lots that won’t fetch much money goes on etsy, ebay is just too darn expensive to list things for $5 or $10 on. Ebay is good for used clothing and some niche items, but etsy has become my main platform and I am almost at 900 sales there (signed up in 2015 but didn’t really make a push on it until 2016.)
All I can say is that packages I have mailed 2 days ago have not been scanned–frankly I am sort of freaked out about it, although these are first class packages which may not get scanned until delivered, I think that I may just have to start waiting in line to make sure every package gets scanned during the Holiday season.
