Selling designer furniture

HSF87

Hello all

I inherited 4 designer chairs (Ton -  Merano) worth £1200 each when bought apparently. Looking online they seem to be about £400-£800 new, with the ones I own been at the higher end. 
However I don't like them, they don't fit under my table and take up loads of room. 
How can I sell these for top whack? I'd like to buy a full replacement table and chairs so hoping to get the most for them. 
I use eBay but I don't think the designer aspect will be appreciated. I can go down that route but assume it'd be a long wait for the right buyer, or selling at a much cheaper price., Maybe splitting the lot.
They are worth what they are worth and I'm not wanting to be greedy, I appreciate they are not brand new and I'll be selling them as used but I also see them as an asset that can hopefully help towards the cost of a decent replacement.
I'm in North Leeds  

Sandtree

Have you looked on eBay to see their sold price if secondhand?

Unfortunately "designer" is a nothing word, ultimately every item has been designed. Some brands hold their value well and other items have virtually no added value despite having a massive markup new. Not a brand I know to be able to say where they are on the scale.

Doozergirl

I've had a thing for buying designer items in the past. 

There is a market on ebay, it depends on how you word your item and then whether you wait it our on a buy it now.  

Made a mistake recently.  I bought Philippe Starck Kartell Victoria Ghost Bar Stools years ago and resold some of them this year - headline roughly along those lines.   Had good photos but nothing happened.  I dropped the price but at the same time added 'designer' into the headline, had a flurry of enquiries from people and they sold in 3 minutes before I had a chance to start replying.  

"Designer" does hold a price tag because some people don't know what they are looking for, but know it when they see it.  I shouldn't have dropped the price - I should have been able to sell them for the same price as I bought them for if I'd have added 'designer' and waited.   I've had good success in the past but I believed that things might have changed. 

My experience is that things sell for around 30-40% of RRP when second hand, but it doesn't matter if they've been used for 5 minutes or 10 years.  

theonlywayisup

If you are going to try and sell on Ebay, I suggest you visit the Ebay board on this forum and familiarise yourself with how to protect yourself.   If you've not sold before, then dipping your toe in with these items is not the best. 

GDB2222

HSF87 said:

Hello all

I inherited 4 designer chairs (Ton -  Merano) worth £1200 each when bought apparently. Looking online they seem to be about £400-£800 new, with the ones I own been at the higher end. 
However I don't like them, they don't fit under my table and take up loads of room. 
How can I sell these for top whack? I'd like to buy a full replacement table and chairs so hoping to get the most for them. 
I use eBay but I don't think the designer aspect will be appreciated. I can go down that route but assume it'd be a long wait for the right buyer, or selling at a much cheaper price., Maybe splitting the lot.
They are worth what they are worth and I'm not wanting to be greedy, I appreciate they are not brand new and I'll be selling them as used but I also see them as an asset that can hopefully help towards the cost of a decent replacement.
I'm in North Leeds  

Are they these ones, at £500 direct from the manufacturers?
https://www.ton.eu/en/products/detail/merano-armchair/

Or, the cheaper version without arms?  Anyway, you do need to get the pricing sorted out, obviously. 

bris

You're not getting top whack for them because people who want to pay top whack buy new.

They are only worth what someone is willing to pay.

Try Gumtree at a top whack price, when that fails then a local auction house will be the one that finds their true value.

TELLIT01

"Designer" in the description can help as some people will be using it as a search term.