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These plates are really nice! I would bid for them myself, but I have so many things already, I could open up my own museum... One hint from me is to use a gray card or a spydercube together with an image editing software when taking pictures. Half of your photos is bluish, the other half more yellowish. Using a gray card you can hit the right color without effort.
Birgit
thanks everybody for your tips ! Indeed 3 of my posts have wrong "colored" pictures. I plan to change them today. The white balance was not set right. I believe that for the Duck plates everything is ok, on my screen at least the coloring looks good.
On the price, i do not dare to set the price lower. If you don't get views you risk selling for 9,99...which happened to me several times for items worth at least 200 usd. I don't want that anymore, than I can better keep them or sell them locally. I will in future remove my listing if there are barely views and no bids after a couple of days.
I even sometimes think that ebay is not the correct place to sell anymore. There are so many fakes, 90% of what is offered comes from China and is fake. When i try to search for something I also loose interest scrolling through a huge number of fakes...then I am done on half an hour.
Anyway, I will work on my items and see if I can improve the pictures. I am not a professional seller and I do find it hard to take good pictures...
Thanks again , really appreciate your input !
Kind regards
Staartmees
Dear Carl and Adrian,
I'm from Germany and not far from you guys. Maybe we can meet each other and arrange an antiques hunting event in Europe ? Will be very nice to exchange and share our experience with each other.
Best
Xin
Hi Xin and Carl.
That would be awesome, really good idea!
I can share with you my exact calendar for this year. It is way shorter in terms of antique hunting than any other year due to my wedding - I had to use 15 of 20 days of my annual leave entitlement just for the big day and a trip after - on the 2nd of June I am loosing my freedom forever 🙂 well.. it was lost long time ago :-). Anyway I was left with only 5 days and 3 of them I have already booked for Lille - that used to be the biggest antique market in Europe - it's held on first week of September (Saturday the 1st and Sunday the 2nd of September in 2018). I was a regular seller there for many years. 2 years ago it was cancelled due to the horrible attack in Nice - a guy used a lorry and he just plunged in to a crowd of people during the Bastille Day. It was in general a terrible and sad year for France and Belgium as well so events like Lille were cancelled of course. Last year they reopened the market but they introduced a lot of restrictions for both: public and sellers. They asked a very expensive fee and I got scared that since it will be much smaller this year I will earn less then add those extra costs on top of that.. I changed my plans for strictly buying. That was a massive mistake because all those changes they came up with scared off a lot of sellers like me so whoever got there to sell was just flooded with customers who came there hungry for everything. The organisation of last Lille was just bad, there was no good information about how they reshaped the whole event. It used to be a vast part of the city centre totally occupied by sellers, hundreds of streets were packed with stalls - honestly it was impossible to see everything even if you walked for whole 2 days (3 actually). Fact is it was starting a day before on Friday afternoon guys on the outskirts (along the canal) they were setting up their stalls Friday afternoon. Last year they divided it into few separated, distanced, well secured zones. I didn't know about this, I was just exploring one of those zones where I used to sell and it was microscopic regarding the previous years... So for me it was just one huge disappointing experience. I didn't do any research yet in terms of this years regulations but it has to be better then the previous one. I will be there 100% there's no doubt about that. I just have to make up my mind in terms of the tactics: selling or buying - that's the question. At the moment I am like 4 to 5 in favour of selling as I really want to declutter and get rid of European stock I gather over the years. One thing is sure: you can meet me there. I am always near the City Hall at Rue Saint-Sauveur, I used to have my stall there, always same spot: just next to the side entrance to the City Hall. Last year that side of the street was unavailable for sellers, the guy who was my neighbour seller moved his stall on the other side of the street. If I decide to sell I will be somewhere around there and grounded for few days as I am always coming there on Thursday afternoon and I camp there just looking after my pitch unlit the Friday's evening - after 6pm all privet cars have to leave designated streets (they are towed withing first few hours of that evening if the owners missed the signs) and then all the sellers start to take over the roads, pavement, lawns. At that time there is a lot of dealers walking and riding bicycles all over the place looking for early catches, some of them hang around the whole night. I used to pack around 1am just to get ruffly 4hrs of sleep and the whole fun starts for real on early Saturday's morning (5am it's getting really busy there). I am truly hoping this will come back this year and I think it will. Please don't blame me if the organisers will change it again and it won't be that impressive, at the end of the day the safety is more important and they are responsible to provide it at any cost.
I still have 2 days left of my AL and I will definitely spare that for antiques in France this year. There are good markets in Belgium as well but I want to go somewhere I haven't been yet. I am aiming at those events that are held once or twice a year, big ones - just in case Lille will be shrunken again. I have to plan it good and make the right choice. In my case it has to be during the weekend so I could take Monday off for a proper rest. Probably I will do 2 more good markets in France this year.
There is on I am always there. It is one-night party: Amiens, northern France, twice a year, 1st one is already done, next one is on 7th October. Quite large, I have done it multiple times. Lots of dealers - store owners (a lot from UK as well - easy access from the tunnel, 100 miles) strictly buying so the competition is tough. Last one was a bit odd - the sellers got lazy and they started setting up their stalls really late (around 6am) when normally it was buzzing around 1am, so it annoyed me as the weather was just perfect, normally it's bloody cold out there but this time it was hot, yet the dealers didn't appreciated that, strange..
Putting all together: 100% I am in Lille and Amiens this autumn, so you can meet me there. I will let you know about my other plans for France in few months from now.
If you want details about Amiens, I can fix a post with all the details also if you want to sell there as I did that as well.
Regards,
Adrian
Dear Adrian and Carl,
You can contact me by Email: [email protected]
By the way Adrian congratulations on your wedding or loss of freedom 😀
Best
Xin
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Dear Adrian and Xin
The chance to meet and study would be an excellent idea and would interest me greatly , It would be my first time on the continent to source collectibles and antiques.
Yes and congrats on your wedding Adrian .
Dear Carl and Adrian,
I'm from Germany and not far from you guys. Maybe we can meet each other and arrange an antiques hunting event in Europe ? Will be very nice to exchange and share our experience with each other.
Best
Xin
Hi Xin and Carl.
...
Dear Adrian and Carl,
You can contact me by Email: [email protected]
By the way Adrian congratulations on your wedding or loss of freedom 😀
Best
Xin
Thank you very much Xin, that means a lot to me, I really appreciate it.
I will keep in touch, I'll mail you also regarding my plans for further trips.
I am sure eventually we we gonna meet somewhere on the continent!
Regards,
Adrian
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Dear Adrian and Xin
The chance to meet and study would be an excellent idea and would interest me greatly , It would be my first time on the continent to source collectibles and antiques.
Yes and congrats on your wedding Adrian .
Thank you Carl as well, I am very happy to hear that from you, I'm honoured.
I will send you info on my plans as well, Carl. There are few markets in France that bait me a lot, as I never been there yet, so I will look into this direction.
Like I have mentioned above this year I don't have much space for moves and the real thing I plan for the next one.
Regarding upcoming Lille, do a good research and make a decision. If you need more details, I can share anything I know that could be useful. Last one was chaotic in one word, I am expecting this one much better. I will try to find out as much as I possibly can regarding any changes/sizes/etc. and I will share that too.
Thank you one more time for kind words.
Regards,
Adrian
Feel free to browse the store:
www.malkaart.com
Inquiries:
[email protected]
Dear Staartmees,
Julia has a good suggestion for you that I would second. Perhaps Peter would have room to feature your items in his weekly video feed if you draw your items to his attention today.
I see the Forum pages have been flooded with spam as I post this, so I hope you manage to see it.
Best wishes,
Alan
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