I saw Antique Cupboard come up in a search and looked on their website a little. Good to hear someone used them. I'll check out Chairish too. Thank you!
Thanks, I'll check into them too!
I know a bit about sterling silver as I had it valued for insurance purposes. I have crazy pieces like fish forks, tomato servers, iced tea spoons and poultry shears so I know way too much about this topic.
It really depends on the pieces you have. Replacements is super picky about the condition of items so you are at their mercy. You pay to ship it to them and if you don't agree with their valuation then you also pay for return shipping. If you have the time and patience you will, by in large, get the best value by selling on your own via ebay. This takes a lot of time on your part but if you are about maximizing your $$$ then that is almost always the better option. Getting the best value selling yourself also require selling it piece by piece. Most people arent looking to but a service for 8 they are looking to replace lost or damaged pieces. The other big seller are serving pieces. A good compromise is to sell the typical place settings to Replacements.com and then sell the specialty and serving pieces on your own.
As someone who own service for 24
If you want the easiest then replacements is certainly the easiest but profit wise you won't get nearly what you think. I would not be sentimental about breaking up a set. Very few people are looking for a whole set so you will likely get even less. Grand Baroque is one of the classics it is also a very "busy" pattern and really requires someone with very specific taste. If you want to figure out what you may get for it on ebay then look for what people have sold it for, not just what it is listed for. Look for the prices in green.
Yes, it's hard to reconcile breaking up a set. We actually had a whole set of China, which was surprising given every other set was missing a piece. But few people want a full set of anything, most are looking to replace pieces of an existing set. So even though it was complete it was sold in a couple chunks at the auction like the rest. (and most people at the auction were resellers themselves so they didn't care either about not getting a complete set) And fetched a slightly better price that way than the full sets of similar ones I've seen sold.
Silver plate does not sell. If it were sterling silver you could have gotten a whole lot more.
