Featured How best to sell this 12 pc sterling flatware set --Ebay? Facebook?

Marie Forjan · Sep 10, 2024

Congratulations Lucille, sounds like you did great!!!!!

Figtree3 · Sep 11, 2024

Lucille.b said: ↑

Update.

I listed this on Facebook marketplace today and had two interested buyers in 15 minutes. One wanted me to ship, no thanks. I listed for $1,200 for a quick sale (recall the gold buyer's top dollar was $900). Went with buyer #1. I put in the Facebook ad that it was "cash only" and that the silverware could be viewed at my house, but for payment, we meet at my bank. The buyer had kind of a mafia-like name, "Sonny"... (plus a tiny bit of a New Jersey accent on the phone) so I felt a little nervous, but then he said we could "just skip the house and meet straight at the bank", it seemed safer.

Of course a few small snags. I get in my mom's car to bring silverware to bank, and car is suddenly making this horrible noise, so much that I didn't dare drive it. I bicycle a lot, so bicycled over with the sterling in the box, luckily just a few blocks away. Initially I thought I would pop the car trunk, let the guy examine everything (maybe he'd have a scale?) and then we'd go into the bank. I wasn't going to do that in my bike trailer --I'd look like I was homeless or something. So got there early, locked my bike, and waited in the bank.

Luckily there was this chatty bank employee I kind of know from banking and I blurted the whole thing out ...Facebook...mom's sterling...paying in cash...want to make sure not counterfeit... The employee says, "No problem!" and sets me up in a comfortable chair, even offered water. "Sonny" shows up exactly on time, he looks at the set, picked up one spoon, no counting of anything, no weighing. He said, "I'll take it." Hands me the cash, I deposit it. (Side note: I learned that the bank puts all cash deposits in a machine that will flag anything counterfeit.)

I said to Sonny, I don't even need to know what you are going to do with it, and he interrupts and says, "Oh, I'm going to use it. We eat with sterling and I think this might replace the set we currently have. I really like the pattern."

Realize this might be BS, but sale already done, so why make up a story like that. Also he didn't bother with any weighing, so I think it might actually be true. This was one thing I hoped for but was sure would not happen. That the set would stay together!! It was in excellent condition, with a lot of matching fun pieces. Mom's set.

Was SO ready to sell this. Heck, I'm not even keeping the money. $1,200 divides evenly between 3 grand kids and I get my closet shelf back.

The End.
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That is great! Wonderful story, and I'm glad it went so well for you.

How is your car doing?

Lucille.b · Sep 11, 2024

My joy of "finally selling this sterling set!" lasted a full 15 seconds. I hopped in the car, started driving away, worrying noise.. "Now what."

Still sorting out what is wrong with car. I just checked the oil 5 minutes ago --looked okay. The bank employee got stuck hearing about my car woes with my nervous energy waiting for "Sonny". The employee seemed to be kind of a car nerd, asked a lot of questions ("Does it make noise while you are idling...?") and he thought it might be a stuck brake or something. It's an old car. Let's hope it's not doomed.

evelyb30 · Sep 11, 2024

Brake calipers sound like a dragging stick, more or less. My rear ones froze up twice in two years, so I know what that sounds like.

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