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<p>[QUOTE="verybrad, post: 9433482, member: 37"]If you are using 1st Dibs as a value indicator, you are doing yourself a disservice. 1st Dibs is the highest of the high end, with a very select market. Asking prices are very high and things usually sell at a discount off the asking price. Even so, the selling prices are probably the top 1% of the market. The vast majority of items sell at prices way below those found at 1st Dibs. </p><p><br /></p><p>The prices found on liveauctioneers are reasonable prices one would expect to pay across a broad spectrum of locations. You can probably throw out the very low prices and chalk them up to a bad day at the auction. The very high prices may also be outliers. However, they could also be for exceptional items at a high end auction house. You kind of need to read between the lines a bit. Retail prices could be higher in some locations. </p><p><br /></p><p>A good antiques sleuth should be able to find bargains in any market. This is particularly true for items for which there is a lot of stock. The listings for rococo gilt mirrors numbered nearly 9K on live auctioneers. Surely some of those could be considered comparable for you. Even if you were to take some of those prices and double them to account for wholesale vs. retail, chances are that you would still be way below 1st Dibs prices.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="verybrad, post: 9433482, member: 37"]If you are using 1st Dibs as a value indicator, you are doing yourself a disservice. 1st Dibs is the highest of the high end, with a very select market. Asking prices are very high and things usually sell at a discount off the asking price. Even so, the selling prices are probably the top 1% of the market. The vast majority of items sell at prices way below those found at 1st Dibs. The prices found on liveauctioneers are reasonable prices one would expect to pay across a broad spectrum of locations. You can probably throw out the very low prices and chalk them up to a bad day at the auction. The very high prices may also be outliers. However, they could also be for exceptional items at a high end auction house. You kind of need to read between the lines a bit. Retail prices could be higher in some locations. A good antiques sleuth should be able to find bargains in any market. This is particularly true for items for which there is a lot of stock. The listings for rococo gilt mirrors numbered nearly 9K on live auctioneers. Surely some of those could be considered comparable for you. Even if you were to take some of those prices and double them to account for wholesale vs. retail, chances are that you would still be way below 1st Dibs prices.[/QUOTE]
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