Selling antiques at auction - useful tips
Throughout the world, online auction houses are selling thousands of antiques, works of art or collectibles. This article presents 4 steps for selling your antiques online by carrying out your initial research. Enjoy!
1. Jot down the keywords that best describe the antiques. For instance, you can include the artists' name, the city and county of origin, the category the antique belongs to, the date, historic/cult rural/social significance (if any) other relevant details.
2. You have to then type those keywords in online auction search engines (eBay, for instance) – and make sure that you are doing it one by one. And typing over 1 keyword at a time really reduces the amount of potential search matches.
3. So using more than 1 keyword makes sense only if you get 100s or 1000s of matches against 1keyword search. Keep adding keywords separately till the search is narrowed down and you find those results quite accurately matching your antique.
4. Then observe how many or what kind of antique items are coming up against each and every keyword search. Now compare those to the particular antique you're planning to sell. Then jot down these keywords, which were found to be successful in bringing up items matching most with your antique. Search completed antique items along with those items that are now up for selling.
Completed sales will provide you with the most precise idea regarding the current worth of your antique. Nevertheless, the might lack pictures (lots of sellers quickly get rid of pictures once the auctions are over).
You should also understand that sales in progress are of little use for your price research. Still they might actually display the activeness of bidding on items in particular. And more importantly, they’ll show images that you’ll need for comparing with your antique.