First time selling on ebay...home collection?

FudgeCake

Crowqueen wrote: »

plus the box.

We've had someone here recently saying that they are trying to sell jewellery/designer label gift boxes on eBay and they were highly sought after - before being removed because the people buying them could be doing so in order to try and prove a fake is the genuine item. I'm not saying yours is faked, I'm more saying that some people on eBay are very cynical and suspicious because they've had run-ins with fakes, and the designer label companies themselves don't like stuff being sold on eBay because it has a reputation for fakes. I personally won't buy any kind of designer item because I took the bait on a Kookai watch a few years ago, and it was a cheap fake which fell apart in my hands when I was just taking it off normally. I only lost £10 (yeah, I know, too good to be true ), but it was a case of...never again. I can understand you've gone to great lengths to make your buyers sure that it's the original item, but it's just too easy to fake something that if I wanted genuine, I'd go through a genuine reseller rather than to eBay.

How much is the starting price? If you don't have any bids on it, you can revise it or cancel it.

Cash on collection is safe -- for you at least -- but as I said, I would be loathe to carry hundreds of pounds on me, and would insist on Paypal ...which isn't safe for you. You have to accept Paypal anyway, so that part of it is still a risk for you that I just wouldn't be prepared to take on this kind of item.

Since we aren't on an eBay-owned website, I would still say --- I think you are taking a big risk here and I would still look at alternative venues. Sorry to finger-wag but if it really is quite valuable I really don't think eBay is a good idea.

Yeah I get where you're coming from. I buy on ebay all the time and have never had a problem but I can see some may have. When I said plus the box, I meant it was still in the pouch and the Tiffany & Co box...and even the Selfridges bag (can show them the receipt even ).

I'll look at other ways to sell it. I did think of a Jewellers but they usually go by weight and, on this one, you're paying for the name.
Thanks again for all your advice...really appreciated. x

Crowqueen

Not a problem. Glad I could be of some help.

To be honest it sounds like something you would need to sell very carefully and eBay is just not a good place for those kind of things.

Good luck and I hope you get a good price for it.

soolin

I would agree with Crowqueen and consider a bricks and mortar auction house as jewellery is going extremely well there. The only time i ever dabbled with jewellery by buying at auction and trying to sell on ebay I made a loss as I hadn't really researched the price differences well enough.

suburbanwifey

FudgeCake wrote: »

Yeah I get where you're coming from. I buy on ebay all the time and have never had a problem but I can see some may have. When I said plus the box, I meant it was still in the pouch and the Tiffany & Co box...and even the Selfridges bag (can show them the receipt even ).

I'll look at other ways to sell it. I did think of a Jewellers but they usually go by weight and, on this one, you're paying for the name.
Thanks again for all your advice...really appreciated. x

I bought a 'Tiffany' bracelet on eBay a few years ago. I paid quite a lot for it, but less than it was advertised on the Tiffany web site (the genuine website )

When it arrived, it was a fake...how did I know? well, there were tiny flaws on it and one thing I know about Tiffany jewellery is that there are no flaws....its expensive as its precision made with the highest quality materials. I shook my head when I posted back as a return, the bracelet, to the seller I bought it off and gave her a peace of my mind for selling fakes and touting them as genuine. I doubt she cared, none of the sellers of fakes on eBay give a damn, they just want your money.

I've just had a look at dozens on Tiffany bracelets currently on sale on eBay..all fakes...no one is going to sell a bracelet that cost £400 and is genuine for £37...or £50...there is a site that you can buy these fakes from....type in Tiffany jewellery in Google....they buy from these sites and sell them on eBay to make profit.

I was upset though, as I loved the item and was so upset that my OH went to Tiffany for real and paid hundreds of pounds to buy me the real item. You know, there is no joy in wearing Tiffany if its a fake...I'd rather do without than wear a fake.

If you have a receipt, and if you used registered post (insured for up to £500 and signature on delivery) and only post to verified paypal address, you are 100% safe selling your bracelet on eBay and you would have a rush of buyers who would bid as you can 'prove' its genuine. You would get a lot of money and a bidding war, there are lots on there with money to spend...and we don't like fakes :T

Crowqueen

I still think the OP is better selling it elsewhere.

IIRC Paypal verified address is meaningless now. Paypal will show "OK to send" and if you don't send, you are in trouble.

And if you have had problems with fakes on eBay before, then it would probably be a cold day in hell before you bid on someone else's Tiffany auction. As I pointed out above, you can get the items to go with the necklace to prove its genuine, receipts can be faked, anything can be done to "prove" something's genuine - the reputation of the site is such that genuine stuff is hard to come by and you yourself were suckered. Registered post doesn't exist any more (it's Special Delivery now) and I wouldn't touch stuff like this on eBay with a bargepole. Also Tiffany might remove it under their VeRO programme.

This isn't an eBay site and no-one needs to tell OPs to sell on eBay when it's palpably not safe to do so.

suburbanwifey

Crowqueen wrote: »

I still think the OP is better selling it elsewhere.

IIRC Paypal verified address is meaningless now. Paypal will show "OK to send" and if you don't send, you are in trouble.

And if you have had problems with fakes on eBay before, then it would probably be a cold day in hell before you bid on someone else's Tiffany auction. As I pointed out above, you can get the items to go with the necklace to prove its genuine, receipts can be faked, anything can be done to "prove" something's genuine - the reputation of the site is such that genuine stuff is hard to come by and you yourself were suckered. Registered post doesn't exist any more (it's Special Delivery now) and I wouldn't touch stuff like this on eBay with a bargepole. Also Tiffany might remove it under their VeRO programme.

This isn't an eBay site and no-one needs to tell OPs to sell on eBay when it's palpably not safe to do so.

Actually, anyone can say that it is safe to sell the item if they feel it to be so, we are all entitled to our opinion. The OP was asking all our opinions, not just yours.

I would buy again if I thought an item was genuine by way of a receipt etc.

A year or so ago I bought from a diseased estate via eBay a very valuable Tiffany item, which was located in the USA...I bid madly, paid a fortune (though a lot less than it was worth in my opinion) and when it arrived 2 weeks later, it was genuine, I had that confirmed.

To imply everything on eBay is fake is wrong, however, there are a higher than normal amount of Tiffany fakes on eBay and its practically impossible to tell just by looking at an auction.

Her bracelet is valued at £200? to me that isn't really a very expensive Tiffany item...hardly worth the fees of an auction house. But, that is just my opinion...she also won't get the vast world-wide array of buyers to see it in a physical auction house, thus will get less money when she sells it.

GabbaGabbaHey

suburbanwifey wrote: »

If you have a receipt, and if you used registered post (insured for up to £500 and signature on delivery) and only post to verified paypal address, you are 100% safe selling your bracelet on eBay

Sadly not true.

You are still susceptible to the scam whereby somebody buys the bracelet, then raises a Not As Described dispute and then sends back a fake bracelet (using a tracked method).

PayPal will almost certainly find in favour of the Buyer, so they will get their money back and keep the real bracelet, whereas the Seller just ends up with the fake.

(As others will doubtless point out, the vast majority of eBay users are trustworthy and honest. I just wanted to say that almost nothing on eBay is "100% safe")

Crowqueen

suburbanwifey wrote: »

Actually, anyone can say that it is safe to sell the item if they feel it to be so, we are all entitled to our opinion. The OP was asking all our opinions, not just yours.

I would buy again if I thought an item was genuine by way of a receipt etc.

A year or so ago I bought from a diseased estate via eBay a very valuable Tiffany item, which was located in the USA...I bid madly, paid a fortune (though a lot less than it was worth in my opinion) and when it arrived 2 weeks later, it was genuine, I had that confirmed.

To imply everything on eBay is fake is wrong, however, there are a higher than normal amount of Tiffany fakes on eBay and its practically impossible to tell just by looking at an auction.

Her bracelet is valued at £200? to me that isn't really a very expensive Tiffany item...hardly worth the fees of an auction house. But, that is just my opinion...she also won't get the vast world-wide array of buyers to see it in a physical auction house, thus will get less money when she sells it.

What concerns me is what Philip is saying. There are plenty of things that can go wrong on high value sales.

My opinion is at least as valid as yours is. The fact also remains that designer items are tricky to sell on eBay because of the high preponderance of fakes, so considering that angle, the advice stands. The OP stands a very good chance of having it removed by Tiffany themselves.

The OP does not HAVE to use eBay. She may get a good price at a proper auction house where there are buyers who specialise in buying things like this and are not quite as cheap as some eBay buyers are. A normal auction house is not useful for commodity goods, second-hand clothes or bric-a-brac, which eBay is good for. It IS good for high value items that probably need to be inspected and so on. Just because you say that there are a lot of people out there who would buy a genuine item, doesn't mean that when they come to the crunch they will be willing to bid on what they can't prove one way or another is genuine. What makes the OP so special that people will believe her listing and not someone else's? Sorry.

What I've been arguing in this thread is to make sure the OP is aware of the problems with selling high value items on eBay. I don't want to see the OP back here in a month's time saying she's been scammed or that Tiffany made her take the item down or that a buyer is claiming the item is fake. eBay is not the only place to sell this - this is as I've said, not an official eBay forum so I'm perfectly at liberty to say it is not wise to sell this item on eBay - and your own experience is probably much more likely to put someone off buying or selling a genuine item than to encourage them to sell it anyway.