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Old Postcards and Why You Can Buy Them Cheap and Sell Them for Triple Figure Prices on eBay by Avril Harper author of 'Bank Big Profits Selling Vintage Topographical View Postcards on eBay'
For more than forty years I’ve made the main part of my living selling vintage postcards, first at flea markets and collector’s fairs, and latterly on eBay. They’re just bits of paper, sometimes very attractive, sometimes not, but either way they can generate fabulous profits, even for items that cost you next to nothing at flea markets and boots sales, even on eBay. And you’ll be quick to give this easy business a go once you know how items that cost you little or nothing can fetch triple figure sums on eBay.
It’s a business that just gets better with time and this is why:
- People are always interested in the history of where they were born, or where they live, where they went to school, and that’s why we’re seeing a massive growth in sites where members can trace their family history over several centuries and other sites giving historical information about specific people and places.
- The best old postcards, usually real photographic, are rare and can attract good profits on eBay. That’s because in the early 1900s skilled photographers were few and far between and most worked just a short distance from base and would spend more time developing photographs than actually leaving their darkroom to add more photographs to their stock. Additionally, most photographers specialised in family and personal portraits, usually taken in their own studios, and only rarely took to the streets to record topographical views. Moreover, because they’re made from flimsy materials, most postcards from Victorian times were lost or damaged over the years and very few well preserved photographic photographs remain today. But there are still many thousands of postcards to pick up at boot sales and flea markets, just not many of each individual view. And it’s the rarity in views themselves that make some postcards worth hundreds of thousands of pounds or dollars – or other country currency - each.
- Postcards are one of the most collectable subjects worldwide and represent a business anyone can start and make money from right away. If selling vintage postcards looks like a good business for you to investigate you’ll find all the information you need to get started straight away in ‘Bank Big Profits Selling Vintage Topographical View Postcards on eBay’ by Avril Harper. Avril has been selling vintage postcards for more than forty years so she knows here stuff and can help you make money also from these hugely profitable collectibles.
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Is It Best to Show Both Sides When Selling Postcards on eBay? by Avril Harper author of 'Bank Big Profits Selling Vintage Topographical View Postcards on eBay'
All view postcards, not just vintage collectable postcards, have two sides, one being the picture side and the other for the message and recipient’s address. But just because there are two sides to every collectable postcard that doesn’t mean collectors want to see both sides, except in the following main cases where showing both sides of your vintage postcard can significantly add to its selling price on eBay.
* The most common reaction is to show the image side of a vintage or more recent postcard, but in fact the image side may not be its main selling point. In reality the ‘other’ side might be much more interesting to collectors and help your card fetch ten times more money that the image side only. You’ll sometimes hear the non-view side of a postcard called ‘other’ because many people - wrongly - assume the address side is less important than the picture side. However, very often the view side is plain and boring and lacks all interest to collectors and showing that side only in your eBay listing might mean your postcard goes unsold. The ‘other’ side though, well that may feature a rare stamp or an unusual postmark, or maybe it has a famous celebrity signature, all of which can turn an otherwise worthless picture side into a hot seller on eBay.
* If the image side of your postcard is in good condition and the back is stained, because the ink got smudged in the rain when it was delivered for instance, then your buyer will be very disappointed and could leave negative feedback on eBay if you didn’t mention the stains on the back of the card or, better still, you uploaded an image showing those stains.
Those are just two instances when it’s wise to show both sides of a postcard when selling it on eBay, there are many more, but none of those reasons involves adding to your eBay listing fees. That’s because the best way to display postcards you are selling on eBay is to scan both sides then add the separate scans to one image so image and address sides show together in your eBay listing. That means you pay for one image to be uploaded but you actually show two. It’s very easy and takes a few minutes longer to list your postcards but showing both sides can add significantly to your final selling prices on eBay.
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Grow Your Profits 100% Selling Collectable Postcards on eBay by Avril Harper author of 'Bank Big Profits Selling Vintage Topographical View Postcards on eBay'
There’s a very common oversight that means most people selling vintage postcards on eBay end up selling way below their products’ potential value. It happens because they omit one word from the description of their postcard in their eBay title, but that one word can deter fifty per cent of buyers from placing their bids. Let me tell you how to avoid this very common problem.
That missing word typically plagues people selling topographical view postcards on eBay, the type that depict places from bygone years, such as villages and towns, cities and even whole countries.
The reason fifty per cent of people who desperately want to bid on a particular topographical postcard don’t even see it on eBay is because the seller copies the caption directly the card and ignores the fact that many places have changed their names or their spellings have varied across the decades.
So the place where I live and for which I collect vintage postcards, called ‘Monk Hesleden’, is often featured on postcards under its old name of ‘Low Hesleden’ or even ‘School Hesleden’ as it was known in the early 1900s. And that means if I search for ‘Monk Hesleden’, I’m going to miss postcards for my home village bearing one of its earlier names in eBay titles.
Also, people wanting collectibles for places like Persia are more likely to search for ‘Iran’, or vice versa, and others collecting topographical postcards of, say, ‘Middlesbrough’, will miss listings for the alternative spelling of ‘Middlesborough’.
It won’t take long to search Google or other major search engines for alternative spellings and names for views depicted on postcards you’re selling on eBay and the effort can double or further increase their value.
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