How can you tell the value b4 listing?

angelcake

Hi, I gotta item that was given to me which is beautiful but not my thing! I wanna sell it on ebay but don't know how much it is worth! I thought about £80 but my other half thinks £120 etc how do I find out??

There is on on ebay which has a starting bid of £24.99 I took the pic to show you what its like! how do I find out? I can't find it on google! don't know where to start! it has no markings etc and is very heavy! please help!

Tojo_Ralph

Have you tried searching completed items for "murano"?

From what I see, values for similar goods are low.

angelcake

Tojo_Ralph wrote:

Have you tried searching completed items for "murano"?

From what I see, values for similar goods are low.

Yes, but it doesn't say Murano on so I don't know wat make it is!

this is really tall and bigger than the ones already listed!

Tojo_Ralph

I am a great believer in the old..... "An item is only worth what A.N.Other is willing to pay for it"..... And start all "collectables" at 99p.

If you list an item correctly on EBay, and it sells for £50, £100, £150.... Then that is what it was worth.

soolin

A Murano glass cockrel recently sold for £9.99 (see item number 7307853277), but that had a break. There was also another one item number 7308045636 that remained unsold at £3.99 but that wasn't Murano glass. The dearest Murano one sold recently was item number 7306183180 that went for £21.

If it is Murano glass from venice then it probably retails for about £20-£30 and would still be available today. If the make isn't known it probably isn't worth that much.

Ebay is buyer led, so it is actually worth whatever someone will pay for it. All I can suggest is that you list it at the lowest price you are willing to accept and see if it gets any takers.

Soo

Tojo_Ralph

angelcake wrote:

Yes, but it doesn't say Murano on so I don't know wat make it is!

this is really tall and bigger than the ones already listed!

If as you say the one already listed is the same, I'd wait and see if that one sold and use as a guide, after all, it is listed ok, so should make it's true "worth".

If it goes for ££ to a Murano collector, you will have a good idea if it is murano, if it goes for £ or doesn't sell, then you know it probably isn't worth listing.

soolin

angelcake wrote:

Yes, but it doesn't say Murano on so I don't know wat make it is!

this is really tall and bigger than the ones already listed!

Unmarked glass without a makers name is not worth as much as marked glass. The size is not important, the make is, without a 'name' the buyer has no idea what sort of quality it is. I can buy unmarked glass cockrels and horses in my local market for £3-£4 and that's what other buyers will be thinking.

Soo

angelcake

Thanks!

I shall watch the one on there already and see how it goes.

juno

Do you have an auction place that you could take it to be valued?

soolin

juno wrote:

Do you have an auction place that you could take it to be valued?

That's not a bad idea Juno. I'm sure there must be places that can value an item, what about cash convertors or such like, pretend you want to hock it and see what they say.

Having an idea of value would at least give you a chance of setting your price right on ebay.

Soo

Tojo_Ralph

soolin wrote:

That's not a bad idea Juno. I'm sure there must be places that can value an item, what about cash convertors or such like, pretend you want to hock it and see what they say.

Having an idea of value would at least give you a chance of setting your price right on ebay.

Soo

If the final selling price of the cockerel that is currently listed on EBay doesn't give the Original Poster a good enough idea of what their identical item is likely to fetch from a glass collector should they list it on EBay, I don't really see what use the pawned value on offer at the likes of cash converters is going to be?