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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Houseful, post: 4393569, member: 1067&quot;]I never took the EBay plunge, it seems risky and fraught with pitfalls and hassle so I decided to take the Auction route and I take note of the recent complaints here about EBay and Etsy.</p><p>The Auction house I use takes 15% plus £3 cost per lot. Takes me 40 minutes to drive there but because I buy from the Charity shops and Boot fairs and Jumbles there’s usually a decent profit for me and likely for the buyer too. I will weigh any gold, add 15% and the £3 and a bit extra to set my reserve and hope some things fetch a lot more. If the gold doesn’t sell for my reserve it’s only cost me £3 and I can take it to the local jeweller who pays me scrap weight. I usually pay very little for my things, that Georgian pendant above and the recent lava cameo I bought are the exceptions.</p><p>That said I don’t sell much, I’ll do a Vintage Fair where I sell the costume jewellery and clothes etc from time to time but I get very tired now. I’ll sell non jewellery bits via Gumtree and FB.</p><p>Have you ever had your fingers burnt with a valuable piece via EBay?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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