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Online Appraisals |
We are often asked if we provide appraisal
services. Though this is beyond our field of expertise, we can obtain a
professional third-party appraisal for you if you need to know how much
something is worth. This is a very beneficial service for those who want to sell
items online or offline. The company we have been using for over 5 years has
delivered exceptional service and is the only appraisal service we trust our
business to. They have a network of more than 120 appraisers who are some of the
foremost authorities in a wide variety of industries. You can be sure that the
assessment of your item will be the result of years of highly specialized
experience.
The charge for a basic appraisal for a
single item would be just $19.99 ... it will provide Current Fair Market
Value (wholesale value), Replacement Value (retail price), and some other
details about your piece. Do you have a collection of 15 or more same-type
items? Contact us to find out about the substantial
discount you'll receive for collection appraisals!
Simply fill out the Appraisal
Questionnaire and email or snail mail it back to us, then
click here to enter our order page.
Your appraisal information will be emailed to you in a matter of days after your
payment is received.
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APPRAISAL QUESTIONNAIRE
Please answer these questions
in detail. Don't be afraid to speak volumes when inputting descriptive text. Try
to be as clear and concise as possible and never assume that any detail is too
small to mention.
What is your item?
Date/Era or Period of item (if known):
Item Condition:
(Specific details including any and all marks, tears, scuffs, scratches, broken
pieces, repairs etc.)
Origin of Item:
(Where the item came from -- did you inherit it from a relative, find it at a
flea market, in the wall of an old house etc?)
Has this item been sold at auction or listed in any books or periodicals? Has it
been owned by a famous (or infamous) person?
When did you purchase/acquire the item(s)?
Purchase price of item (if known)?
What is the main material your item is made of?
Manufacturer/artist: (if known)
If art, is it signed by the artist?
Height of item:
Width of item:
Length of item:
Weight of item:
What is the subject matter of your piece?
Give any other details you feel are pertinent.
What is the main reason for your appraisal?
Are there any notations such as identifying/foundry marks or signatures? If yes
specify:
PHOTOGRAPHS:
We recommend submitting photos of your item in order to better establish its
value. The appraisers can often instantly recognize an item from a clear image.
This accelerates appraisal time. Tips for taking good pictures:
- Use a contrasting plain background. You may
photograph the item on a table against a plain wall, or use white or black
poster boards as the background. Be sure there is enough lighting for the item
to show clearly.
- Include images of important details. For
example: dates, hallmarks, signatures, manufacturers marks, elaborate carving,
etc. The more detail you provide, the better.
- If possible, show your item from more than one
point of view.
Learn more picture-taking
tips
here.
~If you are using a digital camera, upload the photos to your computer.
~If your photos were taken with a film camera, you can use a scanner to convert
them to digital format. Or if you cannot obtain digital format, you can mail
them to us and we can scan them for you for an additional fee of $5. We will
then return them to you by mail.
~Since the digital photos will be very large, please do not send them as email
attachments. You can save them to disk and mail the disk to us, or open a free
account at photobucket.com
to upload them to your own photo album. You then simply provide us the URL of
each photo as shown in your album. For example, go to
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v103/waveromper/tropicalbeachpalm.jpg
to see a photo we have uploaded as a demonstration.
URL of your item's photographs:
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If you are selling a collectible,
vintage item, art, rare or unusual item, and so forth, obtaining an independent
professional appraisal is necessary and advantageous. For example, a client of mine decided said she would accept
$1,200 for an original oil on canvas painting she hired me to put on eBay for
her. I strongly urged her to let me obtain an appraisal, and to our shock the
appraisal showed it was worth over $11,000! If she tried to list the painting
on eBay for $1200, she would have thrown away almost $10,000 because she
would not have known how to price it or even where to get it appraised at a
reasonable price! Don't make this mistake. Get an expert opinion before offering
your item to the world. Let us arrange it for you!
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