Just a whole bunch of flippers and people who otherwise could not afford to buy houses, and really bad politicians making it possible for them to abuse our system that was designed to help them and now they are vandalizing what they should have taken advantage of. But, so are the politicians. As taxpayers we are paying for this, so why not buy it and make the most of it. We and our children are the ones who are going to pay for the cheats and ne-er-do-wells who abuse the system anyway for years to come. Once we got on that slippery slope of doing for those who will not do for themselves and expecting they would take care of their property although they had never proven they would, it was too late.

I think dark paint will take the whole look up a style notch. It looks nice now, but honestly, a teeny bit yawn worthy - don't hate me! And you know I am normally off the black paint bandwagon - too predictable, too dust highlighting, so I think charcoal will be tres chic. However..... painting the fan spindles will be a royal PITA unless you spray. You're gonna think I'm nuts, but I'd tape off everything but the fan spindles and spray them - in charcoal if you can find it, but black if not - and then paint the rest of the chair charcoal. Bring them over here on a crisp day and we'll do it together!

I like a lot of the suggestions already given: list any name brands, designer fabric used and use a very descriptive title making sure to advertize that it has 8 chairs. Some people on CL are so sneaky. I've been looking for chairs lately and come across titles like "Pottery Barn Manhattan Look Chair" or "Ethan Allan Like Sofa" when it's not made by those companies but still comes up if anyone is doing a keyword search. In addition, I would add more pics (up to the four you can post)plus say you can email more pics. Pictures can really sell a set. Include a close up of the chair and closeup of the fabric and then a closeup of the table itself. I just bought a chair and it was a one hour drive away. Before committing to make the drive I wante to see pictures from different angles and closeups of the fabric to see if it went with my decor. The quality and condition of your fabric will not lend itself to customer's looking to reupholster something and price point. Be sure to include all dimenions. Why don't you delete it now and relist it on a Friday so it appears on top when many people look around. Don't lower your price just yet as you need to leave some wiggle room to haggle--but be prepared to go down to $1,000. Another thought is to sell the table and chairs separately. In fact, I'm wondering if you may get more that way. So create two ads, one for the chairs (make sure to advertize 8 chairs as that is a common complaint that there are not enough chairs) and list it at say $900 and another for the table and list it at say $400. In each ad say you are selling the other item and provide a link to it. Then say you will sell as a set for the $1,200. People always want to feel like they are getting a "deal" when they shop CL. They may be prepared to spend a good sum of money, but it needs to be a deal relative to what you can buy for new. So, if the set cost you say $2,400; say that as they are getting it for 50%.

val..I think that's what helped sell it so fast, was the fact that the holidays are coming..and everyone is looking..just like you said you did last yr. dd50..I thought it was so sweet that she emailed me a picture of it all set up in their home..it made me feel good that they were really happy. Some of you had said that the style (chair color) was very taste specific (true) and it would be hard to sell because of that..however, she said she liked the color because she has a very HUGE painted Hutch and felt the colors in the chairs would work nicely with the hutch. newhomebuilder...it was no longer showing on the original thread..so here's some other pics... Also it had 8 chairs and there are only six showing in these pics.