{"id":934,"date":"2013-03-23T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T16:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/datlas.com\/?p=934"},"modified":"2014-04-01T11:43:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T15:43:29","slug":"selling-jewelry-or-diamonds-what-do-you-ask-a-buyer-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/selling-jewelry-or-diamonds-what-do-you-ask-a-buyer-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling jewelry or diamonds? What do you ask a buyer for?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you have jewelry or diamonds to sell, you don\u2019t need to ask for an \u201cappraisal\u201d.\u00a0 Many appraisers and gemologists will immediately sell you an appraisal report which will add nothing to the secondary market value of your items and create yet another expense for you to pay out good money.\u00a0 Instead, when you want to sell jewelry or diamonds, go to people or firms who advertise they are\u00a0\u201cbuyers\u201d and simply ask them to tell you what they would be willing to pay you.\u00a0\u00a0Ask for an “offer” or a “bid”, not an “appraisal”.\u00a0<\/strong> Unless you have a large quantity of items and\/or show an attitude of unwillingness to do business, a buyer will give you their offer or bid for no cost.\u00a0 Once you have collected a few bids, then you are in an excellent position to know what the items are actually worth to those who you have found willing to exchange cash for your items.\u00a0 In this process, you will likely also find those who would offer to take your items on a long term consignment in order to offer them for sale to their customers, but who won\u2019t pay you anything unless and until the item(s) are sold.\u00a0 If you have time, this may be a bit better for you.\u00a0 Remember, you will have to put your trust in the firm and person you are making a consignment with.\u00a0 They have everything and all you\u2019ll have is a receipt.\u00a0 It may take considerable time and may never result in a sale.<\/p>\n

Auctions will take your items for consignment to to place on sale at upcoming auction dates.\u00a0 At least you have a hoped for sale date, but please look at the amount of fees the auction loads onto any amount you will obtain.\u00a0 There are buyers fees, sellers fees and sometimes insurance and photo fees which will come out of the total value the auction can get for your pieces.\u00a0 You may get less than 2\/3 of the money the items brought at the auction and be no better off than selling such items outright to a dealer and have been paid months sooner.\u00a0 You have to make this judgment about time, money and trust.<\/p>\n

The point of all of this is that you do not need to request an \u201cappraisal\u201d when you want to sell.\u00a0 What you need to request is an \u201coffer\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Be sure to\u00a0get assurance that you have a few days to a couple weeks to \u201cmake up your mind\u201d or to \u201cconsult with your family members\u201d<\/em><\/span> before the offer expires.\u00a0 Also, if a buyer says “Will you take $xxxx for these items?”<\/span> <\/em>be certain to respond, “Are you offering to buy these pieces at that price or are you just asking me a question and not making a firm offer?”\u00a0<\/em> <\/span>You will find many buyers are not going to be straight about making a bid until you get past this tricky question they often like to ask.<\/p>\n

These words and techniques will help to\u00a0give you time to make sure you are accepting the best available offer, to eliminate mis-understanding fake\u00a0offers which really were just probing questions and not offers,\u00a0and to have no regrets later on about choosing to sell your jewelry or diamonds.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you have jewelry or diamonds to sell, you don\u2019t need to ask for an \u201cappraisal\u201d.\u00a0 Many appraisers and gemologists will immediately sell you an appraisal report which will add nothing to the secondary market value of your items and create yet another expense for you to pay out good money.\u00a0 Instead, when you want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diamond-selling","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}