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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clutteredcloset49, post: 234499, member: 85&quot;]Zurkos looks like a professional antique market with a lot of experienced dealers.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You might want to get your feet wet selling - by holding an estate sale at your house.&nbsp; Start with things that it won&#039;t matter if you mess up on.&nbsp; Like the regular household goods.&nbsp; This will give you some experience with the type of people you will be dealing with.&nbsp; How to price, and how to counter offers.&nbsp; You don&#039;t have to accept offers made unless you want to. Depends on how bad you want to get rid of things.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suggest you start going around to some antique shops/malls.&nbsp; Start looking at what people are selling and at what prices they are asking.&nbsp; You want to familiarize yourself with things that people consider collectible.&nbsp; Make notes, take pictures, go home and check ebay for past sales.&nbsp; This will help you as you sort your MIL&#039;s house.</p><p><br /></p><p>Start investigating and pricing the more collectible items, such as the Snoopy lamp.&nbsp; Putting those aside for the Zurkos market.&nbsp; Mark, pack and have it all ready to go when you are ready to try the antique market.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re going to make mistakes, and that is ok.&nbsp; We all did it.&nbsp; But we started in areas that interested us. You are starting with a houseful of items you know nothing about.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s another option for selling besides going to Zurkos.</p><p>You could set up tables in your garage.&nbsp; Price things and invite dealers out one at a time to come to your house.&nbsp; They are going to want to pay about a third or less of what they will sell for in their space/store.&nbsp; </p><p>Where as if you go to Zurkos, you would price for the public and ask higher prices.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sure you have a Craigslist for some of the bigger items.&nbsp; Does your area have a facebook garage sale listing, where you can put an item on it to sell?</p><p><br /></p><p>Just throwing out ideas to help you decide what is the best way to tackle all of this. </p><p>Someone else may have other suggestions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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