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Informal poll - selling crystal
All,
I have a nearly-complete set of crystal I received prior to getting married from a family friend as a college graduation gift. It's good quality crystal (Gorham), but.... it's ugly. It was a very nice gift, but I've hated it since the day I received it. It doesn't match the style of our house or even my fine china because it's too formal.
I have kept it because the lady who gave it to me is close to my family. However, she has now moved to Florida and is elderly, so I doubt she will ever visit our house to know whether we have it or not. There is no price for it on ebay or through any other seller I have checked.
On a whim I contacted replacements to see what they would give me for it, and I just have no idea if the price is fair. My concern is that I'm rather eager to be rid of it to make space for something I like a lot more, so I'm not sure if I'm taking a bath on the offer. Let me be clear - I'm happy for them to make money as a reseller, but I would obviously prefer a fair price.
So throwing this out there for the MM-ers: what would be the minimum you would take for a set of 10 wine glasses and 11 water goblets that are fine crystal, but in a pattern you dislike? I'll share what they offered later, but I want to get some gut responses first.
TIA
I have a nearly-complete set of crystal I received prior to getting married from a family friend as a college graduation gift. It's good quality crystal (Gorham), but.... it's ugly. It was a very nice gift, but I've hated it since the day I received it. It doesn't match the style of our house or even my fine china because it's too formal.
I have kept it because the lady who gave it to me is close to my family. However, she has now moved to Florida and is elderly, so I doubt she will ever visit our house to know whether we have it or not. There is no price for it on ebay or through any other seller I have checked.
On a whim I contacted replacements to see what they would give me for it, and I just have no idea if the price is fair. My concern is that I'm rather eager to be rid of it to make space for something I like a lot more, so I'm not sure if I'm taking a bath on the offer. Let me be clear - I'm happy for them to make money as a reseller, but I would obviously prefer a fair price.
So throwing this out there for the MM-ers: what would be the minimum you would take for a set of 10 wine glasses and 11 water goblets that are fine crystal, but in a pattern you dislike? I'll share what they offered later, but I want to get some gut responses first.
TIA
Re: Informal poll - selling crystal
But I'm with @csuave, if you hate it do your best at due diligence and then take the best offer you can find.
Thing is though, their buy list was really interesting. They are willing to give me four times as much if I sell them a water goblet vs. the matching the pitcher from the same pattern. And I have 11 of them. It leads me to believe that what I have is actually fairly valuable, or at least rare.
I did a quick search for Gorham looks like the value really depends on which ones you have. I saw prices of $30-40/glass just for the wine glasses, but sets at $110....
The mismatched numbers is one of the reasons I went to replacements first, because they buy per stem, so it doesn't matter if the numbers match or not. I think it would be harder to sell to an individual because they will want exactly X number.
I'm going to try to do some more research. I know the pattern, but it's been discontinued since 1994, so I can't find a current offer.
For the sake of full disclosure, they offered me $16 per water goblet and $14 per wine glass. I would be responsible for shipping. I figure after shipping costs I would probably net at least $250 or so. I'm leaning toward taking it.
But yeah, I'd be with @csuave on this one. No matter what the actual value is, if I don't like it and I don't use it, then anything I could get for it is a good value to me.
I would take the offer since it's a decent amount of money and you don't have to go through the effort of selling each piece yourself.
Blah, I'm not sure.