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Antiques! => EBay Forum => Topic started by: Gylden on January 23, 2011, 08:46:48 AM

Title: Advertising Your Items
Post by: Gylden on January 23, 2011, 08:46:48 AM

Hello,

Where do You advertise your antique items? (Outside Ebay) Do you know any forums to do that?

Title: Re: Advertising Your Items
Post by: mart on January 23, 2011, 08:42:38 PM

If you are careful,, Craigslist is pretty good and is local to your area !!

Title: Re: Advertising Your Items
Post by: Gylden on January 24, 2011, 05:44:56 AM

I have found a few sites, but as You have said before, you must be careful.
First is http://www.advertisingantiques.co.uk (it's for all kind of antiques) I've got few watchers for my item from here.
Second is http://www.gardenweb.com also not bad.
Both are active.

Title: Re: Advertising Your Items
Post by: mart on January 24, 2011, 06:57:11 AM

Depending on what you are selling,, you might also check specialty sites that deal with only those types of items. 

Title: Re: Advertising Your Items
Post by: Gylden on January 25, 2011, 10:22:19 AM

Well at the moment I'm selling bowl. Not many forums for that...  :(

Title: Re: Advertising Your Items
Post by: mart on January 25, 2011, 10:53:04 AM

You might be surprised at the number of speciality sites for china or pottery bowls !!  Look it up by the maker.  Usually the maker is on the bottom of the bowl !!

Title: Re: Advertising Your Items
Post by: talesofthesevenseas on January 25, 2011, 01:41:21 PM

Before I found this forum, I posted a couple of things in the GardenWeb antiques forum. At that time at least, it seemed to be monopolized by one non-expert person who would give her opinion on the age/value of antiques. I wasn't too impressed with some of her assessments, she seemed to have very little research to back anything up. I got the feeling she was flying by the seat of her trousers, so to speak. Differing opinons seemed quite unwelcome, as the whole thing was kind of her show. Maybe things have changed, I never went back to check.