Help with selling my china dishes

Good experience with Replacements.Inc.

They are down the road from us. When I need to sell off our not needed items of china, glassware, etc. I took 4 large boxes to them.

It is quite an interesting place to see how it all works. My boxes were sorted into areas of china, glassware, crystal, silver, other, etc.

Each item was inspected for chips, cracks, etc.
Each item was logged into their system.
If an item was needed....meaning they did not have it, were low on supply, interesting to them....then they made a "bid" price for that item. It is all according to their inventory and pricing.

All unwanted items were repacked...better than when I brought them in.

I was taked to each table/section and shown what items they were interested in and if I was willing to accpet their offer.
I was quite happy walking out with close to $300 for stuff that was hand-me-downs from various relatives or items I simply did not want anymore.

Once particular area was very ineteresting. Silverware. My grandmother had given me set of silverware at various time....for no apparent reason. It was boxed as a serving set...knife, fork, spoon, salad knive. They priced each item. For instance the knives were worth $2.00 each, forks were around $3.00 each and super surprising the spoons were $10 each. There was a huge demand for spoons in the pattern. So I sold it all, making much more money on the spoons.

They also accepted crystal vase...from Tiffany(a gift from DH's previous employer that was certainly not wanted in our home anymore).

If you contact them with a certain pattern in mind they will e-mail you the rates that they are willing to pay and what items in that pattern are needed.

I have a Plalzgraff pattern. They did not want any of the plates as they were overstocked however they bought the spoon rest, salt-n-pepper, and butter dish w/cover.

I guess it all depends on demand of each item.
Good luck.
 
I have collected antique china for years so I have a little eperience with this. Right now, you won't get much for it. Demand is way down in this economy. I have some really rare pieces that I tried to sell to antique dealers when I was moving, I know their value or what it was a few years before.

Don't deal with Replacements Limited, they won't give you even close to what the value is. Here is an eample. I have my personal crystal listed with them, it's discontinued. They will occasionally send me an email with information about what they have in stock. I got one showing a few glasses in my pattern for 197.00 each. I have 48 of them. I thought ca ching, I will sell them my entire collection, then take that money and buy something else. How much did they offer me? 1.97 per glass. :rotfl: This was a Gorham pattern that is discontinued and rare because Replacements rarely as the glasses in stock. 1.97? I don't have to tell you, I still have my crystal!

Ebay is an option but truthfully right now, it's not selling for much.

You can try Craigslist but I would not expect too much.

A lot of luxury items are not moving these days.

Lisa
 
Even though this is a resurrected thread, it's been very helpful! I'd like to sell my china and my silver, so I contacted Replacements about the china a month ago or so -- they're buying my pattern for a reasonable amount (but after I pay for shipping, not so much) -- but the catch is that it was made in both Portugal and Japan, and the Portugal stuff is worth like 1/3 of the Japan stuff! I haven't gone and looked at mine to see where it's from. And the silver -- it's selling for a reasonable amount, but they're not purchasing it at all! I tried the silver on Craigslist, no interest (I'm not listing on Craigslist anymore -- have had 10-15 items up in the last couple of years and sold 2 -- one was the WDW AP gift cards from the coupon deal last year), and I may try ebay after the holidays.
 
Good experience with Replacements.Inc.

They are down the road from us. When I need to sell off our not needed items of china, glassware, etc. I took 4 large boxes to them.

It is quite an interesting place to see how it all works. My boxes were sorted into areas of china, glassware, crystal, silver, other, etc.

Each item was inspected for chips, cracks, etc.
Each item was logged into their system.
If an item was needed....meaning they did not have it, were low on supply, interesting to them....then they made a "bid" price for that item. It is all according to their inventory and pricing.

All unwanted items were repacked...better than when I brought them in.

I was taked to each table/section and shown what items they were interested in and if I was willing to accpet their offer.
I was quite happy walking out with close to $300 for stuff that was hand-me-downs from various relatives or items I simply did not want anymore.

Once particular area was very ineteresting. Silverware. My grandmother had given me set of silverware at various time....for no apparent reason. It was boxed as a serving set...knife, fork, spoon, salad knive. They priced each item. For instance the knives were worth $2.00 each, forks were around $3.00 each and super surprising the spoons were $10 each. There was a huge demand for spoons in the pattern. So I sold it all, making much more money on the spoons.

They also accepted crystal vase...from Tiffany(a gift from DH's previous employer that was certainly not wanted in our home anymore).

If you contact them with a certain pattern in mind they will e-mail you the rates that they are willing to pay and what items in that pattern are needed.

I have a Plalzgraff pattern. They did not want any of the plates as they were overstocked however they bought the spoon rest, salt-n-pepper, and butter dish w/cover.

I guess it all depends on demand of each item.
Good luck.

Replacements is very picky in what they accept and if you don't live near them it can be a costly adventure to have them inspect your items since you pay for shipping to them. If they don't aceept some of your items then you also pay for return shipping if you want it returned to you. Serving pieces are definitely the money makers for anyone. Think about it, most people register for china as a wedding gift and mostly get place settings. They may get one or two serving pieces. My mom is an avid garage saler and scours craigslist for china. Many times she will buy the entire lot, sell the serving pieces on ebay and donate the rest. It isn't worth the time and energy to pack, list, ship the place settings.

I don't know what it is about tea spoons. My current everyday flatware (not silver plate or sterling) just plain old Oneida that I bought a Wal-Mart 10 years ago is now discontinued and you can buy all the other pieces for cheap on ebay, but the teaspoons alone go for $10 a piece.
 

My mom had 2 salad/dessert side plates that were pretty. Something made me check Replacements and they were willing to purchase from me for $ 34 each. :scared1: After shipping and a 25% reduction on one piece, I still cleared over 45 for the two. Well worth it for me since I was going to sell them at the yard sale for a dollar each!

My experience with Replacements was great. But when I priced sending them my DMIL's Lenox, it would have cost me more to ship than I would get back! She had mostly the regular china and only one serving piece.

I chipped 3 of my everyday Studio Nova dinner plates. They wanted 33.99 each plus shipping. Not happening, but I did think about it. One day I'm walking through Goodwill and someone had brought in almost the whole set: I got 4dinner plates, 4 salad plates, 4 soup bowls and mugs for 50 cents each. Goodwill had wrapped the plates together and when I opened them at home, two of the dinner plates had the same type of chips in the same spot of the rim as I had. It really must have been a manufacturers defect.
 
Iam trying too sell my grandma's dishes its the brown ch

I have everything from the butter dish salt shaker I got every piece .
 
Even though this is a resurrected thread, it's been very helpful!

They usually are. I think far fewer are resurrected by spammers than by people who Google a topic with a question and the thread comes up in a search.
 













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