I Paid $5 For Vintage Lamps Worth $2800! What Do I Do? 

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Sell them. Apparently there are people whose mission in life is to rescue them. Don’t cut up the lamps!

SELL! At least try. Since they aren't your family heirlooms make some cash.

Those lamps are beautiful please do not destroy them. Sell them

I have been selling part time on "that selling website" since 2018 and I sell over $8,000 a month and thats my side gig! Partly completed cross stitch kits sell!!! On your phone, whenever you're wondering the selling rate of an item, search the item, look at how many are currently selling, then go to "filter" then click "show more" and scroll down to "sold". The solds are showing how many sold in a 3 month period. Example, vintage sunbeam fry pan has 381 currently listed but only 91 sold in a 3 month period which is about 10% sell thru rate per month. I check these statistics prior to purchasing something. You may be holding onto that fry pan for 10 months before it sells. I try to sell my items within a 3 month time frame. I wont flip something under a 35% sell thru rate per month unless you are willing to hold onto it and take up space. I tell myself, I'm in the selling market, not the storage market when I decide if I want to flip something. I know you want to keep the fry pan but this was just an example I quickly looked up ...Hope this helps!

Sell the lamps! Put the money in your emergency fund.

The blade, used to smooth our logs for log cabins, vintage linen going high priced!! You need to check these things out.

Absolutely start selling some of it. It's a good income stream and you work hard!

Love these videos when you do them! It would be great to see a "living on a dime resale department" in your shop on your page!

Just remember check the sold comp prices not what is listed

Sell everything! Why are you holding onto the stuff? Cha-ching!!!

The blade with two handles is used to debark logs when making a cabin or furniture. Sit on the log and pull the blade toward you.

My parents had similar old lamps, but theirs were amber colored and yes, the ''belly'' lit up just like yours does.

That's awesome! Bought some white ones like those. 5 bucks each.Mine has lights inside the glass part. Keep them and use them as they are! They're beautiful! 😊

Grandma had a lamp just like yous back on the farm from the late 60s through 1996 when her household contents were auctioned off before going to an assisted living apartment. I would move them to a low-traffic location inside the house away from possible bouncing balls, car doors or possible mouse munching on the electric cord in the garage. You might try advertising the lace items on your site as they would be easiest to ship to viewers out of state. Maybe check into consignment shops or antique dealers to sell to in Colorado where people would pay more for the items than in your area?

It looks like a small hand saw that two people can work, just like the large versions.

I have no idea how to find the right people but there are people who travel the country buying MCM stuff to sell in their MCM stores. You wouldn’t make near as much money as selling yourself but you also wouldn’t have the hassle of shipping items and you’d still be making a very good profit.

Omg!!! The thrift stores now are charging soo much it’s almost impossible to do resale

SELL those lamps!! It’s worth the trouble. 🎉❤

Yes! You should start selling some of that stuff! Finish paying off the house faster!

Sell the lamps in a consignment shop. Put small easy to ship items on your existing e-commerce site.

Wow...some great finds! WTG! My son use to buy full estate sales and then resell items. Lately, he found something that was valued at $4500!!!!! He's selling the item for $2000. Hasn't sold yet but still...

I remember when those were in peoples livingrooms!

I bought similar lamps like that with amber glass. I paid $20 for the pair and sold them for $100. See what you can get for them. I personally think they are ugly! If there is someone out there that wants them, let them have them. LOL! I would not destroy them. There are people that would love them just as they are.

I have run a thrift store for over 20 years. Believe me when I say that you are traveling down a rabbit hole you do not want to go down. I am in the middle of the cornfields. Things like what you have are in all the basements around here. No one around here wants them. I do not have enough time to list them and/or locate buyers for this stuff. I am presently sitting on top of a signed crystal lamp I cannot get rid of. (Has sold for $500 on ebay) Oftentimes, I just give the stuff, for free, to people, from other areas/states, just to get rid of it and to keep it from going into the landfill. Things are only worth what the buyers you find are willing to pay for it. You do well with the business you are presently involved with. The resale business will eat you up as you search to try to get what you perceive to be the value of something. Times are changing and buyers are getting harder and harder to find. My suggestion to you........Keep your sanity and RUN!!

That's an antique draw knife for shaping logs into beams. I'd love to have it.

Either use the lamps or sell them, as they are beautiful!

Wow. I used to own lamps like this.

What you want to look at is the sold items prices. You'll see some that sold that are much less than the top line prices.

Determine what your time is worth whether or not you want to set up a booth somewhere at an antique shop or list them on eBay. The effort and the time you put into it is priceless and may not end up being worth it. Just something to think about.

lol, I had lamps like that in the 90’s that was my mom’s. Only worth what someone will pay.

Please don't break up the lamps. They are fabulous!

The tool is used to sit facing a log, then pulling tool toward you, smoothing and planing the log; logs are them used for building a log cabin or furniture.

nice video and always look at solds not just listed prices- Mercari is a good place as well

Open a booth at an antique store or do a flea market

The lamps are so pretty! Get new shades and use them if they work with your living room decor.

That saw? Is it for stripping bark off logs?

offer up is good place

I believe it was used to scrap bark off of logs

I would attempt to sell it all! Great finds!

I am not into selling online or even locally, so everything goes to thrift stores, nonprofits, of course! I just sent two identical lamps to our thrift store a couple of months ago. Yes, I knew how much they were worth. My aunt got tired of them and passed them to my mother, who thought they were ugly, as did I…. I also jettisoned the exact lead crystal bowl with the silver ring around the top we received for a wedding gift in 1977. I moved it across the county several times and only used it a couple of times.

The crochet items and linens would be good to sell at the prices you’re seeing. The coffee pot I’d jeep for power outages, good as a cowboy coffee pot. For the lamps, Go by the actual sale price. If items seem to be going for too much than others sales (like a 50 dollar Pyrex that someone sold for 1,000) then there is some type of money passing through hands business. Just like what happens in the art world.

It's for shaving tree logs

It’s a tree bark scraper Man, I’d love that! 🥰 Woman, you could be making bank on your stuff. ❤ Any real silver you have, keep it. You might need it down the road for real money Sell the lamps for bank!!

Those lamps are cool vintage mid century modern as well as those multi level side tables/ coffee table. Our house was built in the 1950s and we really enjoy MCM and look for vintage pieces for our house. MCM is hot right now in interior design try selling the things. Hard to find a match set if you collect vintage. Lamps are super cool.

I love the antique serving dishes and linens. I have a lot of handmade crochet dollies and handkerchiefs family made that I would never sell. They are beautiful however, there are people who will buy them. But money is tight right now. The lamps are gorgeous. That would be a good profit if they sell. Depends on the hassle to use eBay. Good luck.

PS, I wonder if the green glass in those lamps is the same as the green glass jars you have??

I sell them, pay off your house first. Then use what is left to put in your emergency fund.

don't destroy the lamps. they must be special. at least those I would list on your web site or ebay.

What about etsy? Is that any better than ebay?

Good for you!

Perhaps you can find someone to sell them on Consignment. I would go after the $2800 with the lamp.

They take overprice on internet.. Not often got sold for these prices,,, Keep the lamps, don´t destroy them!

I'd sell them Tawra.

Those lamps are hot. Would be at least $100’s of dollars you’d lose making them into table legs. Have you thought of Etsy? And there are really good FB mid century modern groups that you could go to for advice. They’d swoon over these. 🤩 Ok just posted a picture of them on a Mid Century Modern group I belong to. It’s very early in the morning for me, I hope it’s ok that I did that. I’ll check back with them in a few hours. 🙂

You should resell! Its not that hard on eBay. I need to come out by you shopping! I resell on eBay and FB marketplace! Love vintage items!

Sell sell sell🎉

Flip those things! People love vintage!

You can shave barked off a tree with that tool

Just remember that you can take them to places that will professionally pack them for you. It would be worth it if you sell them for that much!

Make sure the paint on the plates don't contain lead

I love dollies

I suggest removing the price stickers from the items made of fabric. The adhesive can ruin them.

Nice items! As far as silverplated stuff goes, it is hit or miss. I have had silverplated stuff up and not able to sell on FB marketplacr...maybe it being a pain to polish...I just don't know. I would try to sell and if you can't sell it, use it or gift it. Great video!

Sell them in your website.

That is a draw knife. It's a really hand woodworking hand tool.

Sell them! What's wrong with eBay?

Do NOT believe the prices you see on EBay or other online sites. I had a collection of rare cherry blossom Depression glass valued at over $50,000. After a year I donated them to our local hospice thrift store. I even contacted a local antique dealer who told me to dump them - nobody wants or can afford to buy these types of items.

Putting them in your store for the viewers....do you have rich viewers or ones that are frivolously spending money? I sure don't & I'm assuming the bulk of your viewers lean toward frugal. In our family, we do put some things on ebay. It can be helpful, but it's plenty of effort. I think the lamps are really pretty as is, couldn't you use them somewhere in your home? The shades are so unique & the way the base lights up is a nice vintage touch. ~Mary

Flea market or auction

Please share why you don’t like eBay

Wow

Is that uranium glass in the base?

First you need to get advice from those qho do this. A dumpster diver breafcast is her channel name. She's maybe 29 married looks like a librarian but heavily tattooed. She has a store on sites .

facebook market place. do not destroy the!

Don’t destroy those gorgeous lamps. Sell them.

You should never tell what you gave for a product. Nobody will want to pay the mark up price

Keep the things you really like and instead of repurposing the lamps, sell them.

It's junk make table out of it nobody makes money from old junk sorry I learnt the hard way

Those must be JADE.

I never buy vintage. I'm scared it might be haunted. Tawra you have a garage full of vintage things. Have you ever heard noises coming from the garage in the dead of night? Or put an item in one place and then come back a day later to find its moved to the other side of the garage?

Draw knife

This system is set to implode.

Shaplies, scary looking thing ia a log pealer

SCORE!!

I would sell and buy another pair use extra cash for something else.

Log peeler.

Sell some things. Thats a way you can live on your dime.

You DEFINITELY SHOULD BE selling the vintage stuff !! Those lamps will sell quickly.

Sale

Sell!!!

Try to sell at least some of it.

SELL THEM...make money

Sell them

Offer to your viewers but sell through eBay.

Don't, make a table out of those lamps, all the other pieces, I would use first.I used to sell on Ebay, but not any longer. 😊

MCM furniture and decor is really selling high right now! It's crazy what has come back into style

There’s got to be a vintage website where you can sell all your treasures. DON’T destroy those lamps. If you can get that much for them, GO FOR IT!!!

That is a draw knife for stripping bark off logs😊❤

Most of your viewers are thrifty folks who won’t spend that kind of money on pretty things. I know they’re pretty but not necessary.