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Is Ebay a good place to sell vintage Needlepoint?
I have a ton of unopened, half done and completed needlepoint canvases, kits and framed pieces. Clearing out a crafters shopaholic home and she has an enormous needlepoint collection. Items are clean complete and a couple i think are very valuable. I just don't know how to get price or where to sell them
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kh-shakhib
·1 year agoHi everyone,
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Thank you for understanding.
sheande-70
·1 year agoThere are shops that will sell items on eBay for you. You send items to them and they sell on their site and proceeds are split between the shop and seller. The one I am familiar with is Stitchentime in Louisville, Kentucky. Sellers ship their items (sometimes large quantities after someone passes away). They use an auction format. All items start out at $ 0.99 and are listed for one week. I have used them and it is so easy!
lacemaker3
·2 years ago@wildcrafters,
The best way to research prices is on eBay Terapeak Research, which is available as a tab on your seller's hub. You can search for sold items for up to 3 years, to find out what the selling prices have been, and what categories they were in. Then click on Active to see what is available for sale currently, and get some insight into how they are listed -- auction versus fixed price, promoted or not.
As someone who loves needlepoint, and has some WIPs and projects waiting as well, this niche can be tricky to get to know and understand, but I think eBay may be the best marketplace for such goods, because you can reach a large pool of potential buyers.
With canvases, you will want to determine whether the canvas is hand-painted (very pricey, but usually very beautiful and best to work on) or printed (less expensive, usually also beautiful, but sometimes harder to work on).
If it's hand-painted, then you need to research the designer's name, and probably the pattern name as well, and make sure they are in the title. Some artists are in great demand. You may not be able to get the full price when selling on the secondary market, but some designers and patterns may get a premium price, especially if the pattern is out of production and not available any more. You just have to find the right buyer.
For printed canvases, some of them are high quality and can be in demand as well. Be sure to include the brand name, and the title of the pieces. These were produced in much higher numbers, so there will be more supply available, but that also means that more buyers would have seen them and might be searching for a particular canvas or kit.
For partially worked or completed pieces, you may not get as much, because for most needlepoint lovers, the value of the finished piece is largely based on it being hand made, from someone they know and love. The materials and kits cost more than the finished pieces generally sell for. Make sure that you take good closeups showing the completed parts, from both sides, so that buyers can see that the work has been done to a high standard.
candd205
·2 years agoYou won't get the price they are worth considering the hours and hours and hours of work that go in to needlepoint work, but they probably will sell. Search for needlepoint on eBay, then click on SOLD listings to see what has sold recently and the price they got. You can change the title you search for, needlepoint complete or needlepoint incomplete or needlepoint kits to possibly see different sold listings. Good luck.