Profit From Antiques and collectables from local auctions

19 April 2010

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Like most people I love to find a bargain, something that has been missed and you spot that then goes on to make a really good profit margin. If like me you go to main area Fine antique or fine art auctions, you will find the final values can be high, plus you must add on a raft of overheads. This means making a decent profit margin out of antiques and collectables when you sell on is significantly reduced, and you will be very lucky to unearth a real bargain that has been missed. Main fine art auctions always attract the dealer experts, buying for clients or large antique shops.

To have a chance of a ‘real’ bargain then I recommend you take a look at the local antique or household auctions, these are not advertised all over the internet, they are usually advertised in the local press, or have built up over years by word of mouth. They are really interesting can be a fun occassion and you can often spot and buy an antique or collectable that will sell for considerably more at a main fine antique auction, or through eBay.

What to look for is Boxes of china, books, silver plate in fact anything, rumage through these lots and you sometimes can find the unexpected, I have many times. For example bought a box with some broken Beswick items for £12.00, in it was a Beswick woodpecker with a slightly broken beak, I sold on for £15.00, ok not earth shattering, but also in the box was a Beswick Parrot, broken but all present, I sold on for £125.00. This was an item that normally would have sold for £250.00 and someone bought it who specialised in repairing ceramics – this gave me a huge profit on my £15.00 box.

Usually these small local auctions have specials cabinets, they put in odd bits of silver and other collectables that they consider of value. Many times the prices these items sell for is well below the upmarket fine antiques auction house, for example silver picture frames I often buy and make substantual profits by reselling on eBay, one I bought at £52.00 plus 12% commission and sold for £195.00 on eBay.

Also the overheads are so much lower, the commission is usually around 12% with no VAT as the turnover is so much lower, you have minimal travelling expenses as these auctions are local, and no expensive catalogues.

Selling Antiques Collectibles for Fun and Profit

21 January 2010

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How to Buy & Sell Antiques and Collectibles
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How to become great at buying and selling antiques – to accomplish this you need to become an expert in three areas, find out what they are and exactly how to do it here!
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3 ways the Internet helps buyers and sellers of antiques – and how you can make sure you are taking maximum advantage of the benefits the Internet provides!
How to quickly and easily spot valuable antiques – learn this and you’ll put yourself on the fast track to wealth!
The four major sources for discovering antiques offline and how to gain a competitive advantage over other collectors with each source – follow these tips and you’ll always have first pick of the most valuable antiques being offered!
How to attend auctions with confidence – auctions can be intimidating … here I’ve included 16 tips that you can use to turn any auction into a fun – and yes, very profitable – event!
How to spot a fake – you’ll be amazed at how easy it is to do when you follow these simple tips!
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Silver Coins and Postcards being sold

8 November 2009

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If you look to the right column you will see what I’m selling on ebay at the moment. I’ve inherited through the family a great number of coins and over the next few weeks will be processing them through eBay so if you are interested please feel free to have a look.
I’m also having a clear out of all the postcards I’ve accumulated of the past few months so once again I’m disposing of them through eBay.
Normally I buy items that interest me through auctions, the pieces that I collect I will keep, anything else I buy with those items I will re-sell through eBay, and in most cases make a good profit.
Take postcards, I love to collect cards that relate to my local area, plus transportation cards, to get what I want normally means I must buy a load of other cards that do not interest me. The fact they do not interest me does not mean they are not of interest to some other collector. So buy re-selling through eBay I can usually recoupe the cost of the auction plus in most cases make a useful profit by finding the collectors that want the items that do not interest me.

Take a look at what silver coins eBay going through currently.

Huge Profits Selling Old Topographical Postcards On eBay

6 October 2009

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I’m very much into buying and selling antique postcards on Ebay, the best postcards to go for are Topograghical and real photographic.
The best guide to start you making a good return on postcards is a guide called:

BANK HUGE PROFITS SELLING VINTAGE TOPOGRAPHICAL VIEW POSTCARDS ON EBAY

The information within this guide is very comprehensive and full of great ideas how to buy postcards that will sell for in many cases vast profits, we are talking sometimes buying a postcard for pennies and selling for £100′s.

The lady who wrote this guide has over 40 years of dealing within the postcard collectors market, she is extremely knowledgeable, I have this guide and it’s been invaluable.

Postcards Are Among The Most Profitable Products On eBay(R) And They Regularly Fetch Double And Triple Figure Sums, learn how to do this by sourcing your stock from your local area. See below a taster of what you will find in the guide.

Which Topographical Postcards to Buy and Which to Avoid

There are catalogues to help you price vintage postcards, and modern cards, too, but since the advent of eBay those price guides are best viewed as that – just guides – because the only real guide to what a postcard is worth is the price that someone else is prepared to pay to own it.
And people are prepared to pay staggering amounts of money on eBay for postcards they’d like in their collection.
So there’s no way anyone can tell you to ‘buy this, don’t buy that!’, no one is ever sure what value another person will place on an item the expert considers worthless rubbish, or vice versa. I’ve seen many tatty, really ordinary postcards, worth pennies at most, fetch hundreds of pounds on eBay.

BANK HUGE PROFITS SELLING VINTAGE TOPOGRAPHICAL VIEW POSTCARDS ON EBAY

The guide is packed with 88 pages of experienced information, that will so long as you follow the advise and take action guarantee that you will make money from vintage topographical postcards. In the unlikely event you do not succeed after using this guide then it comes with a 60 day return policy, you just cannot lose.