Simplifying My Life: Selling Crystal and China
cupofkindness
10 years ago
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LuAnn_in_PA
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great grandmother's china cabinet, need to sell
Comments (1)Post your photo on Photobucket or similar site, then copy and paste html code here. Do a search on this forum for step by step directions....See MoreSimplifying My Life: Selling Jewelery
Comments (3)Unless your jewelery is really old, the white gold and platinum should be marked differently. Gold is marked with a number followed by K. The number indicates the amount of gold in the alloy--pure gold is 24k, but most jewelery is an alloy with 20 or 14 or 10 K gold and the rest a mix of other metals for strength and color. Platinum is usually marked Plat or P followed by a number indicating the purity. If you have a mix of gold, say a few 10K pieces and some 14 K, make sure that the buyer does not put them all on the scale at once and give you the 10K price for all of it. Have them divide the jewelery by the amount of gold before weighing. Most places, you can go in and have them weigh your gold, and then leave without selling it if you don't like the price. The chain gold stores will give you a lot of pressure to sell now, and say things like, "We can't guarantee this price for more than 12 hours," and stuff like that. That's fine. There are other stores. But if you shop around, you can get 3 or 4 estimates for your jewelry. And the reason they can't guarantee the price is usually that they go on that day's price for gold, which changes daily, but usually not by a whole lot. They are trying to pressure you when they say this. If the pieces are plain metal, you will most likely be offered an amount of money based on the weight of the metal. If there are stones in the pieces, you might do better shopping them around to see if there is a jeweler in your area who sells vintage jewelery who will buy them as jewelery, not as scrap metal. For some pieces, you get the most money when you sell the metal separately from the gemstones....See MoreWhere to sell Lenox crystal?
Comments (3)Thanks! I will run it by the kids but I donÂt see them being interested in these. Anyway I have my MomÂs and my GrandmaÂs, both nicer, to divide up if they should be interested someday (2 kids, should work out! Though they are 18 and 21: it might be a long wait). Thanks for the Replacements site. Now I know the name of my pattern, "Antique", and know what they sell it for. Also found out my "wine" glasses are not really wine glasses, but champagne/sherbet glasses. Good for marketing!...See MoreChina/crystal on display?
Comments (29)You're very sweet-thank you. It's pretty funny because almost everything we own is old, used, hand-me-down, etc. I do design work, but most of the people I work for prefer a more transitional, or stream-lined look. I LOVE my "stuff". When we moved here, the dining room was a huge issue for me. I'd give up my living room before my dining room-we use it! There's actually an interesting (to me) thread on the BAH forum about whether a separate dining room is necessary. That would be a deal breaker to me. Anyway, I needed somewhere to put the things I use so often. Our previous home had huge built-ins. I couldn't find anything old that was large enough and while looking for a pair of family room chairs for my hubby I came upon these at Rose Furniture in High Point. They are Thomasville's Bogart Bunching cabinets. They are simply huge curios that can fit together. We never buy new from furniture stores, so we really thought about this. Rose's had been there forever with a great rep and we found family room pieces my husband loved, so we bit the bullet. So here's what happens: when we got close to the promised delivery time, I called the salesman and asked for an ETA. He informs me that the cabinets had arrived, but everything else was still "en route". He said they'd deliver everything together when they had it all. Being the patient individual I am (NOT!), I told him I wanted the cabinets delivered (I had paid in advance for EVERYTHING!). He wasn't happy, but I had them the next day. 4 days later Roses's declared bankruptcy. No orders being filled. Anyone who placed an order was out of luck. We ran up there with receipt in hand and stood around with a bunch of other people who had pending orders (one poor man had furnished an entire house to the tune of 60,000 dollars). We were instructed to go out on the floor and find something-we had to LITERALLY carry it out on the spot-no holds. We were driving a Malibu and lived 90 minutes away. We basically lost everything we had paid for a couch, loveseat, and 2 leather club chairs. The only part of our first retail furniture store order that we got were those 2 cabinets because I was being "impatient"! They have since been discontinued and our family room has been pieced together (not what I wanted, but someday....) So those cabinets have a story and are special to me. By the way, this is what we took off the floor. My poor husband walked out with this clock on his back and we drove all the way home with it tied to the roof of our car!...See Morekittiemom
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