Tips for Consigning Antiques
Selling antiques through consignment shops offer more benefits and early sales than most of other conventional means of selling them. This is the reason why most of the antique dealers prefer to sell the antiques through these consignment stores or consigning antiques. With antique consigning, you can have more customers and can generate more profits. But before you opt for consigning antiques, there are many aspects that you need to consider.
Most of the antique consignment shops deal in a large number of fine antique categories. These consigning antiques include American and European furniture, watercolor and oil paintings, sculptures, prints, vintage and designer jewelry, antique American, English and Continental silver, ceramics made of soft paste porcelain, Staffordshire, redware, majolica, faience, Oriental porcelain, netsukes, blown and cut glass, toys, tin and glass plate photographs, nautical items and what not. It is a great idea to de-clutter your house or just the room without allowing the strangers to visit your home without advertising.
When you consider selling antiques through the consignment shops make sure that the consignment shop you have selected is the right one and has good background, shop floor, visibility and track record. Also check the percentage of sales that the store charges as usually the percentage is around 35% for deals worth $10,000 and 25% for deals more than $ 10,000. Carefully understand the insurance and other details for the antiques you will be putting up in that shop.
You also need to clarify some of the things such as who will set the price on your items? Whether the prices will drop after couple of months? What will be the consignment fee and how and when will you be paid for your sold items? |
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