I'm in the traditional antique and vintage mall. What I am seeing is that the 20 to 40 somethings are discovering that grandma's brown furniture isn't that bad if the doilies go away. Many of this age group are already replacing their Ikea and Rooms to Go furniture because it is designed to fail in 8 years. They are discovering that the old is old for a reason. A big flip that I have noticed is that everything, including houses, are becoming disposable. For years career-oriented youth, they don't want to be tied to their possessions. It's a matter of making do until they feel like they made it or a child or two has changed their lives.
Ya well they were raised in an Era disposable changed its name to planned obsolescence. Yet another reason to be very careful when selling New stuff older than say 10 years (the magical self destruct metric engineered into all products of value). I think a much better way to play these current trends is by selling parts. It is very hard to find parts because the manufacturers never figured anybody would want to own any of their inferior products passed the self-destruct time frames. The rare times I buy in these yrs I have made the most money by breaking them down and selling the pieces. If not that certainly highlighting the value there in.
Thanks for the good advice. I have just gotten into antiquing. I got started during the pandemic when tons of beautiful art glass by companies like Fenton and Westmoreland were being basically dumped on the market. I took home lots of things from the Brimfield MA antique show. But, when I went back this year, there wasn't nearly as much. I found mostly seconds, damaged pieces or ordinary stuff, and just a few. The show was full of lots of clothing, plastic, empty containers and other stuff that looked like flea market junk to me. But I can see why many people would appreciate this stuff. It represents their childhood. We are now in a time when Grandma and Gramps went to Woodstock, and the generation that survived the depression is almost gone. Times change. But, I'll still hold unto the Great Depression era stuff because the young people of today are also living through financial crisis, and it will be natural for them to look back to their ancestors for wisdom, because the Boomers have little of that.
I collected Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and other tokens and coins from the 1950's and now they are worth 50% less. Dolls like Shirley Temple and other early dolls no longer sell at all. I am 68 years old and find 1970's-1990 toys sell better like you said, great video thanks for sharing.
Spot on! I’ve only been doing this for a year but I came in selling all things bohemian and 70s style in a mall that is otherwise dated and I have profited large enough to quit my job and do this full-time! As I age into this new endeavor, I will heed your advice and continue to move with the times. Seriously an easy in though as I am a 70s child! 😊✌️
Thank you so much for this info - really helpful! (fyi - the British definition of an antique is 100 years old or more). A good word to describe what you are discussing is “Vintage.” LGB😁‼️
I’ve heard many different opinions on antique so I just let everyone have their own thoughts and just hope we all have a jest of what I’m talking about
Correct. In the US antique is also defined as 100 years or older and vintage is something 20 years old. I understand your point but language should be used in a meaningful way to describe what it is meant to describe.
Hooray for Tupperware! (It's gotten real pricey on the Goodwill auction site over the last year or two.)---My Atari game w/paddles (minus the games) only got a passing glance. None of my family is interested in the vintage stuff, so off to the Achievement House it'll go.
Hundred records (mostly non-descript, and a crate of old 78's) went to the Goodwill. My sister said they were happy to get them! I kept the memorable stuff!
For me its about buying into a fantasy....whether its your childhood or a timeperiod. For example there are 20-30 somethings that like "Dark Academia" and will buy a Victorian sitting chair to achieve that fantasy aesthetic AND THEN others who want toys from the 1990's if they want to go back to their (albeit recent) childhood.
I agree 100% with what you are saying. I can see the changes happening at the antique mall that I have a booth in. A lot of younger people are coming in to shop and there have been several new vendors that have just started selling vintage clothing in their booths. I’m not ready to open up a used clothing store in my current booth but wouldn’t mind getting a second booth for selling 70’s clothing and household items.
Exactly….it is not about abandoning what we have been doing it is just about adding the 60’s-80’s stuff cause the younger generation are starting to buy
There is a big difference between people of certain generations wanting to have really great things adults owned (Tupperware for instance) with other generations who want to recreate their childhood toy collection.
In my experience they want to recreate their childhood and it just happens to be that those are adult owned great things. In other words they just happen to intertwine
Thanks for sharing your knowledge . I didn't know you were a card collector . I'm putting together a 1975 set now . I have several 1909 tobacco cards that I've had for over 40 years and it amazes me that inserts from these new sets sell for more that these cards that are over 100 years old .
Very interesting! I want to keep up with the trends. My son helps me and my 26 year old help me determine what I buy. Im always paying attention to what they go for.
I volunteer at a charity thrift store so this is good information for me to pass on. The new trends are driven by the demographic with the most disposable income.
Totally Agree, Liked & Subscribed. Just watched this Oct 2023. I started collecting in May 2023 & have a collection but only selling on FB Marketplace & watching videos like these in order to move fwd w buying & selling. Thank you for this valuable information & I will be watching 🇨🇦
This was great info. I have been collecting old license plates. Seems old Tennessee and California ones are selling for big money. I have seen some very old Tennessee plates sell for over $1000.00 bucks.
When I truly begin collecting when I began high school 69-73. I bought turn of the century golden oak small pieces of furniture and victorian. Probably my great grandmother Era! My daughter at age 5 thru eight only wanted to dress in the 1920s and 30s authentic dress. That was expensive for us! My son collected erector sets. Sold them in college for 100 x what he paid. They were cheap in the 80s
I can see the change! I collect Rose Hazel dishes that were give aways at the movie theaters in the fourties’. Slow collecting, but it’s the find. 🙂 I do have dolls, with the clothes and a case for them from my childhood that I could never sell. And it’s true the younger generation doesn’t want the “old” stuff. So sad. Wish I could get to your May flee, but I’m in Massachusetts. And you know”gas”. Although I do have a hybrid. Thanks for this lesson. 👍🏻
I'm getting older and want to purge a large amount of items that are very collectible. I don't want to list each item individually nor want stranger coming to my house to "see what I have" I'd be glad to sell at a fair price to both of us, but I don't want to be preyed upon. If an item would sell to a customer for $40, what would be a fair price a dealer to pay?
Wish we had some crocks and cast iron. Can't keep them in stock and can't find them reasonable enough to re-sell. We are in our 25th year of business and have seen lots of changes over the years. Agree - the hot things are vintage clothing and records. Pyrex and old Correlle Ware. Wish we could find more of those too. 2021 was the year of the sports card for us. My husband had a sports card shop in the 80s and had a lot of old inventory and sold almost all of it last year. Garage Sales - we don't have many and rarely go to them in our own town for reasons I won't go into. Part of living out in the wide open spaces. Fun video.
There is not a blurry line that's actually a defined line hundred years old is an antique anything up to there is vintage they do this in cars It's why they license plate them at 100 years old
Sir, are you saying that Star Wars (the first versions) stuff is valuable? I find so much star wars in the thrifts from puzzles to t-shirt, but I can't see where it's valuable to resell. And I think it's because it was oversaturated. I see Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader on almost everything.
Things like metal lunchboxes can be worth $ if they're from when the original trilogy came out in the late 70s/ early 80s. That's peak nostalgia for a lot of people in their 40s.
Hi I love your videos and always learn so much! I’m sixty and still have concert Ts! My first concert KISS 1976 in Philadelphia PA, I know my kids saved everything from their childhood…My son is 37 and his 2 boys play with the car tracks and marble games, I just found a huge box of ninja turtles the van, etc…they aren’t in the packages but in good shape! i was wondering about books for the ages you are talking about? Does there seam to be any interest in books from their childhood? My son still has his then cheap blue vinyl bean bag chair! The huge walking dinosaurs! When we moved to our farm 24 years ago they brought everything! It’s been in storage and kept clean…I am happy they play with their kids. with the stuff..lol makes it worth my storage space all these years.. thank you for sharing 😊kim
It really depends on the books I know some hold value but book are a hard guess without seeing them. Those ninja turtle out of package still can hold a great value, you should look up those turtles on eBay some fetch in the 100’s
My dad bought and filled our house with antiques. My mom was not a fan. But I grew up sleeping on a rope bed with 1800 dressers. His house is still FULL of antiques. He bought for investment. Now everyone wants to just use antiques decorate with seems.
@@66uniqueantiques you absolutely would love to walk through it. He loves blanket boxes he has cast iron banks. Really cool HUGE oil on canvas paintings he got for free. Lets juat say he lives in Springfield Ohio about 3 minutes from the " largest antique mall " the person who started that was a huge antique dealer and many didnt like that would give or sell cheap to each other just so the big money guy wouldn't get his hands on it. ( he wasnt a bad guy at all.) My dad was always one of the first people they would call to give or sell to. This was way back in the 80's. Sadly what my dad spent on some furniture he won't get his money back out of it. But all of his stuff is beautiful!
@@66uniqueantiques Yep my dad HATES that everyone knows what everything is worth from their smart phones. He had to read and do flea markets to figure that out. Even had people bid for him at auctions because when he would bid everyone knew it was worth something and bid him up. 😂. My dad will be 80 this year. He has given his kids some great things but he God love him keeps the best for himself. Which I LOVE. 😂❤😍
@@66uniqueantiques yes some of it does sell depending on condition, color, etc. I remember laughing with my girlfriend that our grandkids would probably collect it, and we thought that was ridiculous.
My time for wheeling and dealing was twenty years ago. Now, with health and 59 years of age I think more about myself and how to tickle my own fancy. The ones I leave behind can enjoy or deal with what I left. Maybe it will end up in your grand kid's store and they will love it like I did. The circle , wow, deep and heavy.
I love buying and selling, and it’s important to know what’s going on in the industry but it’s less painful for everyone if they stay in their lane. For you, you focused on stuff you knew about like gaming consoles which sounds like a great fit. But another price if this is that there will always be a market for what you like so if the thing you know about and like is not “in vogue” currently, don’t worry just don’t assume you can sell a ton of it on. Maybe find something else you personally like and know about. The biggest issues I’ve seen is when someone treats buying and selling like wall street. It will end up with you having too much product and losing a ton and personally I believe a person acting out like that deserves to lose their shirt. When you treat items with the respect they deserve everyone wins. Anyway great video and channel
People don’t seem to like anything Victorian probably because the people that grew up with that stuff are gone now. My husband has tons of vintage neon lights, 1940 Ford parts and stickers from the seventies. I collect Rottweilers 😂
It depends on your time frame. If you want it to sell fast put a buy it now but if you have some time I always run an auction for 7 days and if it doesn’t sell I use a buy it now the next 7 days and it usually sells
There will still be a market but it will take a backseat for the moment for the 60’s-80’s items. This business is a cycle and they will come back around again
The trend towards 80’s and 90’s stuff is totally not working for me. I have zero idea what was popular in this period. In the 80’s I was in church and went to a Christian school, and modernism was discouraged. Then in the late 80’s I was married, still in church, and bearing and nursing children. A whole decade went by that I spent in a rocking chair or a church pew. This went on through the 90’s. And while raising this brood of children, we were poor and had no money for all this popular stuff. I remember Barney, pogs, my little pony, and way back to Atari. I’ve never been “popular,” so this does not come naturally to me. Lol. I have my own likes and style. Soooo....I am selling what I know, but it’s far less profitable. VHS players, vintage sewing items (my mainstay), tupperware and vintage items. I try books, but they don’t peddle well. I love dishes, but because of weight and shipping, they don’t sell well. I go for “unique.” I had a boyfriend once who said I was “unique.” So maybe that’s my style and what I understand. My hubs is a gear head, so we have had some success selling off his collections of auto parts and other mechanical goodies. Sometimes I find the darndest things, and they sell! One item in mind was a package of USA made thumbtacks. They were older, maybe 80’s? Anyway, $10. Gotta wonder who would spend $10 on thumbtacks, but as you say, the stuff available today is so chintzy, it’s undesirable. Thanks for the lecture. I enjoyed your knowledge and perspective.
10 years means you are a baby. I’ve been collecting things I enjoy. That means man items. Oil , gas and Coca Cola items from no earlier then the 60’s. I’ve watched my collection grow value wise over the past 25 years. However you have to watch out for fakes. Glass and furniture forget it. Not my thingy.
Everything always goes in cycles. In the 70s, you could buy Victorian furniture and paintings dirt cheap. Nowadays, the price of such traditional items such as oriental rugs, 19th-century American paintings, Depression glass, and 18th-century furniture is down about 75% compared to 30 years ago. Eventually these items will come back - we are starting to see millennials looking at good-quality wood furniture and comparing it to what they can buy at Ikea. You want to be ahead of these trends if you can. I read where some hedge fund guy raised $40 million, bought a ton of high-quality 18th-century American furniture, and is storing it in a warehouse. These guys are not stupid, they know that you should be buying when no one else is that interested.
I get it. I see it too. But things from the 1980’s are not antiques. Those are vintage things, and vintage is what’s “in” now. If you have the word “antique” and not “vintage” in you store’s name, that’s where the problem is. Vintage is hip and trendy. Antique is fuddy duddy. People would go antiquing. Now we’re thrifting. I buy antique paper, because it’s in the public domain and I can copy it. I buy vintage Avon jewelry because Avon is sturdy and hypoallergenic. Stay away from the word “antique” if you want to attract youngsters. Change the name of your business! Don’t be changing definitions.
We can agree to disagree as the opinions on “antique” will go on for decades but the young people that stop into our shop in droves don’t say I love all this vintage stuff they say I love all this antique stuff. It’s changing your perception of what people consider antique not changing a word
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Personally I avoid this new trend whenever possible. The problem is there is just too much stuff from the eras these folks now want to reminisce from. We are also in a time when anybody can resell their stuff. Estate sales have become little more than the place a family dumps the items they are NOT selling online. When you can source VHS tapes for a dollar (or less) and Stephen King books are rarely worth more than a coffee, no thanks. There is way more $$$ catering to these kids on the front of the wave not the back.
@@66uniqueantiques already is,,,Gabbage Patch Dolls Even Disney is waning. Way more people want to forget their childhood these days than ever before. Sell the future.
@@johndough23 This is true. I am in my 60s. I find although I am somewhat attracted to what I had in my youth, I tend to BUY what I wanted but didn't have in my youth. Growing up, we didn't have much money and our living room was a hodge-podge of real and fake wood, all different tones. I hated that. My living room now has all walnut furniture from the 1930s to early 1960s. No fake wood!
I’m 72. If I were as stubborn as you say everyone my age is, I wouldn’t have subscribed and be binge watching your channel. You have great content but ease up on generalizing about people. Thanks😅
Didn’t mean any Ill Will was just basing the opinion off of our experience with many different generations of people. Other videos talk about the youngers as well
All we can do is the best we can in a crappy situation. Good thing about reselling is there is always a good market for something just have to figure out what it is
The 70s & 80s stuff have been the best selling items at estate sales for 2-3 years, so I am not sure it is a new trend. I have been doing sales for 12 years. I collect stuff I love, not stuff that I remember from my childhood, but I am a purist.
Just an FYI, I am old school and love primitives from the 1800’s or before, and I am not that old. Primitives still sell well in the right markets, for example Nashville TN or other big shows.
I agree….. everyone has different reasons for collecting what they do we have just noticed the majority always find an attachment to a childhood memory or familiarity
@@66uniqueantiques I have been in the antique business for 35 years and have seen many changes. Quality still sells, but I have had to keep up with the trends too, even though I don’t like it. Lol.
What is old always becomes new again. We have some redwing crocks, crown and I believe we still have 2 bee sting ones. Maybe I’ll include them in the next video where I walk out shop
You nailed it! I love stuff from my childhood, but also things that are beautiful to decorate my home with.
Thanks Tim & Carol! Glad you enjoyed the video!
I was going to say the same thing!
Quality always speaks for itself
That is true
Here's 2 names to avoid like the Covid virus...Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson.
I'm in the traditional antique and vintage mall. What I am seeing is that the 20 to 40 somethings are discovering that grandma's brown furniture isn't that bad if the doilies go away. Many of this age group are already replacing their Ikea and Rooms to Go furniture because it is designed to fail in 8 years. They are discovering that the old is old for a reason.
A big flip that I have noticed is that everything, including houses, are becoming disposable. For years career-oriented youth, they don't want to be tied to their possessions. It's a matter of making do until they feel like they made it or a child or two has changed their lives.
Good insight Daniel! Thanks for watching
When people are looking for (good) furniture I tell them to go Goodwill or Salvation Army. They have the good stuff....and also estate sales.
Thank you I didn't t know what is happening to antiques
Ya well they were raised in an Era disposable changed its name to planned obsolescence. Yet another reason to be very careful when selling New stuff older than say 10 years (the magical self destruct metric engineered into all products of value). I think a much better way to play these current trends is by selling parts. It is very hard to find parts because the manufacturers never figured anybody would want to own any of their inferior products passed the self-destruct time frames. The rare times I buy in these yrs I have made the most money by breaking them down and selling the pieces. If not that certainly highlighting the value there in.
I own an estate sale company, and doing them has kept me in the loop with trends. You are right in saying what is hot now.
Thanks Rita!
Thanks for the good advice. I have just gotten into antiquing. I got started during the pandemic when tons of beautiful art glass by companies like Fenton and Westmoreland were being basically dumped on the market. I took home lots of things from the Brimfield MA antique show. But, when I went back this year, there wasn't nearly as much. I found mostly seconds, damaged pieces or ordinary stuff, and just a few. The show was full of lots of clothing, plastic, empty containers and other stuff that looked like flea market junk to me. But I can see why many people would appreciate this stuff. It represents their childhood. We are now in a time when Grandma and Gramps went to Woodstock, and the generation that survived the depression is almost gone. Times change. But, I'll still hold unto the Great Depression era stuff because the young people of today are also living through financial crisis, and it will be natural for them to look back to their ancestors for wisdom, because the Boomers have little of that.
Thanks for watching and good luck entering the antiquing world it’s a lot of fun
Oh totally! As a millennial who has lived through two economic downturns in my adult life, I find the depression glass in particular really inspiring.
Buy what you love ❤️
Absolutely! I hope this was geared towards collectors and resellers
Totally agree, but the best quality you can find or afford of things you love.
Very true
I collected Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and other tokens and coins from the 1950's and now they are worth 50% less. Dolls like Shirley Temple and other early dolls no longer sell at all. I am 68 years old and find 1970's-1990 toys sell better like you said, great video thanks for sharing.
Thanks Larry!
I agree Larry. The Shirley Temple movie sets are going for pennies on Amazon.
Spot on! I’ve only been doing this for a year but I came in selling all things bohemian and 70s style in a mall that is otherwise dated and I have profited large enough to quit my job and do this full-time! As I age into this new endeavor, I will heed your advice and continue to move with the times. Seriously an easy in though as I am a 70s child! 😊✌️
That is awesome Rustic! Glad you have had so much success to quit your job! This line of “work” is the best! Good luck going forward
Thank you so much for this info - really helpful! (fyi - the British definition of an antique is 100 years old or more). A good word to describe what you are discussing is “Vintage.” LGB😁‼️
I’ve heard many different opinions on antique so I just let everyone have their own thoughts and just hope we all have a jest of what I’m talking about
Correct. In the US antique is also defined as 100 years or older and vintage is something 20 years old. I understand your point but language should be used in a meaningful way to describe what it is meant to describe.
I had a horrible vision of you sitting on top of a pile of a thousand crocs! Thanks for the good advice in your vid :)
😂😂 Thanks For Watching Cern!
Thanks Mike. Charise and I have found some our best things at resale shops. Lately tho their prices have increased as well.
Thanks for watching Jim! I’ve seen the increase as well
I have one big rule. Never buy anything to resell that you don't love because you may be holding onto it for a while.
Good advice for sure! Thanks for watching Ian!
I'm 64 and grew up in the Bizz an Antique is anything 100 years old
Again another opinion and I can name the same people in the Bizz for years that say differently
The glasses...yes...
Thank you for your knowledge as always.
Much love from Virginia
Thanks for watching Sandy! I’ll try to make sure I have my glasses at all times 🙂😃
Bags of common sense in the information you shared.Thank-you.
Thanks Helen!
Hooray for Tupperware! (It's gotten real pricey on the Goodwill auction site over the last year or two.)---My Atari game w/paddles (minus the games) only got a passing glance. None of my family is interested in the vintage stuff, so off to the Achievement House it'll go.
Hundred records (mostly non-descript, and a crate of old 78's) went to the Goodwill. My sister said they were happy to get them! I kept the memorable stuff!
At least it will find a good home hopefully if not with family
For me its about buying into a fantasy....whether its your childhood or a timeperiod. For example there are 20-30 somethings that like "Dark Academia" and will buy a Victorian sitting chair to achieve that fantasy aesthetic AND THEN others who want toys from the 1990's if they want to go back to their (albeit recent) childhood.
Great insight! Another chain of thought that makes sense as well! Good Job!
ramble on and on, so I left this channel for more to the point conversation.
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I totally agree with you my vinyl is crazy also pyrex I'm 70 years old and I love the trends now
Me Too Melissa! Glad everything is going well for you hopefully it keeps going that way! Thanks for watching
I agree 100% with what you are saying. I can see the changes happening at the antique mall that I have a booth in. A lot of younger people are coming in to shop and there have been several new vendors that have just started selling vintage clothing in their booths. I’m not ready to open up a used clothing store in my current booth but wouldn’t mind getting a second booth for selling 70’s clothing and household items.
Exactly….it is not about abandoning what we have been doing it is just about adding the 60’s-80’s stuff cause the younger generation are starting to buy
@@66uniqueantiques I’m going to be 54 😩🤪😩and don’t feel like the “old” person yet but I guess I am 😂😂😂
Nah only as old as you feel
I feel like this’ll be your ‘I told you so’ video when the change happens haha
I think so but we will see
You hit the nail right on the head, That is exactly what I am experiencing,
Thanks Lincolnland! Hopefully you are taking advantage of it too! Happy Picking 🙂
There is a big difference between people of certain generations wanting to have really great things adults owned (Tupperware for instance) with other generations who want to recreate their childhood toy collection.
In my experience they want to recreate their childhood and it just happens to be that those are adult owned great things. In other words they just happen to intertwine
I think recycling is really big thats why goodwill and vintage stores is such a big thing.
I agree but still too many people are throwing stuff out when it is perfectly usable and better then the junk people are producing nowadays
Thanks for sharing your knowledge . I didn't know you were a card collector . I'm putting together a 1975 set now . I have several 1909 tobacco cards that I've had for over 40 years and it amazes me that inserts from these new sets sell for more that these cards that are over 100 years old .
I know the market is crazy right now. Even a card collector for 30 years now lol
Very interesting! I want to keep up with the trends. My son helps me and my 26 year old help me determine what I buy. Im always paying attention to what they go for.
Thanks Kathryn hopefully this helps you out 🙂
Hi. Where do you look for what an item will maybe sell for?
Nice analysis!
Thanks 357!!
Yes I agree this will be the trend. Never underestimate the Nostalgia effect
Absolutely
Great information! Thanks
Thank You Sue! Glad you liked it!
I volunteer at a charity thrift store so this is good information for me to pass on. The new trends are driven by the demographic with the most disposable income.
Very true!
I love your videos. They're just such a learning experience for me. Thank you !!😊
That is awesome to hear Yolanda! Thanks for watching
Totally Agree, Liked & Subscribed. Just watched this Oct 2023. I started collecting in May 2023 & have a collection but only selling on FB Marketplace & watching videos like these in order to move fwd w buying & selling. Thank you for this valuable information & I will be watching 🇨🇦
Awesome! Thanks for the sub April and hopefully we can help you along your way
This is fascinating, because I'm 33, and my focus is phonographs and records made before about 1935. 😆
That is awesome!! Everyone has their own likes and the more youngsters that get into antiques is awesome for the community
Yep I look for things I bought my daughter in the 80’s & 90’s
Smart! That’s what will turn hot
This was great info. I have been collecting old license plates. Seems old Tennessee and California ones are selling for big money. I have seen some very old Tennessee plates sell for over $1000.00 bucks.
Thanks Jay! Great Info on the plates thank you
My Husband has the 2nd Oregon license plate made. Still in good condition for it's age. He has several old plates but this is the oldest.
When I truly begin collecting when I began high school 69-73. I bought turn of the century golden oak small pieces of furniture and victorian. Probably my great grandmother Era! My daughter at age 5 thru eight only wanted to dress in the 1920s and 30s authentic dress. That was expensive for us! My son collected erector sets. Sold them in college for 100 x what he paid. They were cheap in the 80s
That’s Awesome! If you can ever be at the beginning of a trend or change you can make mega profit on your items
Great info!
Thanks Martha
I can see the change!
I collect Rose Hazel dishes that were give aways at the movie theaters in the fourties’. Slow collecting, but it’s the find. 🙂
I do have dolls, with the clothes and a case for them from my childhood that I could never sell.
And it’s true the younger generation doesn’t want the “old” stuff. So sad.
Wish I could get to your May flee, but I’m in Massachusetts. And you know”gas”. Although I do have a hybrid.
Thanks for this lesson. 👍🏻
Thanks for watching Christine! We have another one in August? 😂😂 hopefully it is better by then
I'm getting older and want to purge a large amount of items that are very collectible. I don't want to list each item individually nor want stranger coming to my house to "see what I have" I'd be glad to sell at a fair price to both of us, but I don't want to be preyed upon. If an item would sell to a customer for $40, what would be a fair price a dealer to pay?
Depends on the item if it is a fast moving item $20-$25 is appropriate if it is a slow seller $10 or so is more then fair
What I’m seeing one year later is that some things that were selling for $350 a year ago are up for $130 now and aren’t really selling.
Covid raised prices on quite a few things with everyone home
Wish we had some crocks and cast iron. Can't keep them in stock and can't find them reasonable enough to re-sell. We are in our 25th year of business and have seen lots of changes over the years. Agree - the hot things are vintage clothing and records. Pyrex and old Correlle Ware. Wish we could find more of those too. 2021 was the year of the sports card for us. My husband had a sports card shop in the 80s and had a lot of old inventory and sold almost all of it last year. Garage Sales - we don't have many and rarely go to them in our own town for reasons I won't go into. Part of living out in the wide open spaces. Fun video.
Love your insight! Glad you enjoyed the video!
There is not a blurry line that's actually a defined line hundred years old is an antique anything up to there is vintage they do this in cars It's why they license plate them at 100 years old
Again I’ve heard just as many opinions against what you just stated
Antiques are considered to be over 100 years old, younger than that are vintage 😊
Another opinion I hear all the time but hear the same on the other side 🤷
Sir, are you saying that Star Wars (the first versions) stuff is valuable? I find so much star wars in the thrifts from puzzles to t-shirt, but I can't see where it's valuable to resell. And I think it's because it was oversaturated. I see Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader on almost everything.
The 1970’s Kenner toys are quite collectible and can fetch some real nice prices
Things like metal lunchboxes can be worth $ if they're from when the original trilogy came out in the late 70s/ early 80s. That's peak nostalgia for a lot of people in their 40s.
Hi I love your videos and always learn so much! I’m sixty and still have concert Ts! My first concert KISS 1976 in Philadelphia PA, I know my kids saved everything from their childhood…My son is 37 and his 2 boys play with the car tracks and marble games, I just found a huge box of ninja turtles the van, etc…they aren’t in the packages but in good shape! i was wondering about books for the ages you are talking about? Does there seam to be any interest in books from their childhood? My son still has his then cheap blue vinyl bean bag chair! The huge walking dinosaurs! When we moved to our farm 24 years ago they brought everything! It’s been in storage and kept clean…I am happy they play with their kids. with the stuff..lol makes it worth my storage space all these years.. thank you for sharing 😊kim
It really depends on the books I know some hold value but book are a hard guess without seeing them. Those ninja turtle out of package still can hold a great value, you should look up those turtles on eBay some fetch in the 100’s
Was that Kiss concert at the Spectrum? I saw Cheap Trick there in about 78.
My dad bought and filled our house with antiques. My mom was not a fan. But I grew up sleeping on a rope bed with 1800 dressers. His house is still FULL of antiques. He bought for investment. Now everyone wants to just use antiques decorate with seems.
There is still a large market for antiques just finding the right people. I bet I’d love to walk through that house 🙂
@@66uniqueantiques you absolutely would love to walk through it. He loves blanket boxes he has cast iron banks. Really cool HUGE oil on canvas paintings he got for free. Lets juat say he lives in Springfield Ohio about 3 minutes from the " largest antique mall " the person who started that was a huge antique dealer and many didnt like that would give or sell cheap to each other just so the big money guy wouldn't get his hands on it. ( he wasnt a bad guy at all.) My dad was always one of the first people they would call to give or sell to. This was way back in the 80's. Sadly what my dad spent on some furniture he won't get his money back out of it. But all of his stuff is beautiful!
What a great story! How I wish I could of been in this business back in the 80’s when it wasn’t all about the money and collectors helped collectors
@@66uniqueantiques Yep my dad HATES that everyone knows what everything is worth from their smart phones. He had to read and do flea markets to figure that out. Even had people bid for him at auctions because when he would bid everyone knew it was worth something and bid him up. 😂. My dad will be 80 this year. He has given his kids some great things but he God love him keeps the best for himself. Which I LOVE. 😂❤😍
😂sounds like he is a pillar in the antique game and you are blessed to have him in your life. 🙂
Pocketknives and zippo lighters
I'm stubborn and I need to grow but I'm still not paying or displaying old Tupperware in my house.
😂😂 no need to display but the Tupperware does sell really well.
@@66uniqueantiques yes some of it does sell depending on condition, color, etc. I remember laughing with my girlfriend that our grandkids would probably collect it, and we thought that was ridiculous.
I know we talk about that a lot. What our kids will collect and the results always make us laugh
My time for wheeling and dealing was twenty years ago. Now, with health and 59 years of age I think more about myself and how to tickle my own fancy. The ones I leave behind can enjoy or deal with what I left. Maybe it will end up in your grand kid's store and they will love it like I did. The circle , wow, deep and heavy.
🙂 that is the best part about this business is these items get to bring joy to different people over and over again
...and those jeans are apparently worth a few bucks providing authenticity is there...
Yes they are! Good money in vintage clothes right now
I love buying and selling, and it’s important to know what’s going on in the industry but it’s less painful for everyone if they stay in their lane. For you, you focused on stuff you knew about like gaming consoles which sounds like a great fit. But another price if this is that there will always be a market for what you like so if the thing you know about and like is not “in vogue” currently, don’t worry just don’t assume you can sell a ton of it on. Maybe find something else you personally like and know about. The biggest issues I’ve seen is when someone treats buying and selling like wall street. It will end up with you having too much product and losing a ton and personally I believe a person acting out like that deserves to lose their shirt. When you treat items with the respect they deserve everyone wins. Anyway great video and channel
Thanks MZ! Great insight as well
People don’t seem to like anything Victorian probably because the people that grew up with that stuff are gone now. My husband has tons of vintage neon lights, 1940 Ford parts and stickers from the seventies. I collect Rottweilers 😂
😂 all great things to collect
@@66uniqueantiques no one is going to brake in and get away with our stuff anyways.
That is for sure
As I tell my kid, " The quicker you accept it, the happier you'll be"! 🤣😂
😂 I like it!
Not sure what part of the country you are in, .... but those things have been hot for years already here.
Midwest….they have been hot for awhile but I don’t like throwing it out there until it is consistent for a bit
I guess I missed what I need to be getting into in this video. I got sell what’s trendy. Hasn’t that always been the case?
It’s just recognizing that the customer base is changing to the 60’s-80’s babies instead of the 30’s-50’s so what people are looking for is changing
LIKE vinyl record albums
Exactly
100 years or older Antique....should state antique on price tag.....newer is vintage....Cars are antique at 25 years
When it comes to vintage clothes and records, would you suggest putting them as auction? Or Buy it now?
It depends on your time frame. If you want it to sell fast put a buy it now but if you have some time I always run an auction for 7 days and if it doesn’t sell I use a buy it now the next 7 days and it usually sells
I think you are confused about the difference between Antique and Vintage......
Not at all…. Like I said at the beginning of the video people have different definitions and I respect them all
Whats going to happen to the antique stuff?
There will still be a market but it will take a backseat for the moment for the 60’s-80’s items. This business is a cycle and they will come back around again
Is Avon coming back?
I’ve started to see a few more people look for Avon but I wouldn’t say it is back value wise
I have sold a few Avon pieces from the 50’s or 60’s for a decent price, but there are only a few select pieces and they were unused & in the box.
agree
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If it's not 100 yrs. old or better it is not antique by definition, and the word is thrown around much too loosely in an incorrect manner.
Again another opinion for every 100 yes I hear 50 yrs or 25 yrs
100 year antique. I'm an Ole timer!
The trend towards 80’s and 90’s stuff is totally not working for me. I have zero idea what was popular in this period. In the 80’s I was in church and went to a Christian school, and modernism was discouraged. Then in the late 80’s I was married, still in church, and bearing and nursing children. A whole decade went by that I spent in a rocking chair or a church pew. This went on through the 90’s. And while raising this brood of children, we were poor and had no money for all this popular stuff. I remember Barney, pogs, my little pony, and way back to Atari. I’ve never been “popular,” so this does not come naturally to me. Lol. I have my own likes and style. Soooo....I am selling what I know, but it’s far less profitable. VHS players, vintage sewing items (my mainstay), tupperware and vintage items. I try books, but they don’t peddle well. I love dishes, but because of weight and shipping, they don’t sell well. I go for “unique.” I had a boyfriend once who said I was “unique.” So maybe that’s my style and what I understand. My hubs is a gear head, so we have had some success selling off his collections of auto parts and other mechanical goodies. Sometimes I find the darndest things, and they sell! One item in mind was a package of USA made thumbtacks. They were older, maybe 80’s? Anyway, $10. Gotta wonder who would spend $10 on thumbtacks, but as you say, the stuff available today is so chintzy, it’s undesirable. Thanks for the lecture. I enjoyed your knowledge and perspective.
Glad you enjoyed the video Christine! It will take some research (I had to do a lot as well) but you will get on board to this new trend 🙂
10 years means you are a baby. I’ve been collecting things I enjoy. That means man items. Oil , gas and Coca Cola items from no earlier then the 60’s. I’ve watched my collection grow value wise over the past 25 years. However you have to watch out for fakes. Glass and furniture forget it. Not my thingy.
Happy to be in it young and it gives me years more to learn. Good advice too
Everything always goes in cycles. In the 70s, you could buy Victorian furniture and paintings dirt cheap. Nowadays, the price of such traditional items such as oriental rugs, 19th-century American paintings, Depression glass, and 18th-century furniture is down about 75% compared to 30 years ago. Eventually these items will come back - we are starting to see millennials looking at good-quality wood furniture and comparing it to what they can buy at Ikea. You want to be ahead of these trends if you can.
I read where some hedge fund guy raised $40 million, bought a ton of high-quality 18th-century American furniture, and is storing it in a warehouse. These guys are not stupid, they know that you should be buying when no one else is that interested.
Very good point!
I think you are right about “cycles.”
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I get it. I see it too. But things from the 1980’s are not antiques. Those are vintage things, and vintage is what’s “in” now. If you have the word “antique” and not “vintage” in you store’s name, that’s where the problem is. Vintage is hip and trendy. Antique is fuddy duddy. People would go antiquing. Now we’re thrifting. I buy antique paper, because it’s in the public domain and I can copy it. I buy vintage Avon jewelry because Avon is sturdy and hypoallergenic. Stay away from the word “antique” if you want to attract youngsters. Change the name of your business! Don’t be changing definitions.
We can agree to disagree as the opinions on “antique” will go on for decades but the young people that stop into our shop in droves don’t say I love all this vintage stuff they say I love all this antique stuff. It’s changing your perception of what people consider antique not changing a word
I don’t agree.
No, words mean things..you need to define what you mean
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The Big change is the US govt is now starting to tax these sales as of Jan 1, 2022.
That is definitely a change worth discussing
Nope. You were always required to pay tax. People confused about this because sellers getting forms now. You were supposed to keep track yourself.
Don't sell soap..
Personally I avoid this new trend whenever possible. The problem is there is just too much stuff from the eras these folks now want to reminisce from. We are also in a time when anybody can resell their stuff. Estate sales have become little more than the place a family dumps the items they are NOT selling online.
When you can source VHS tapes for a dollar (or less) and Stephen King books are rarely worth more than a coffee, no thanks.
There is way more $$$ catering to these kids on the front of the wave not the back.
This new trend will be common place before you know it
@@66uniqueantiques already is,,,Gabbage Patch Dolls Even Disney is waning. Way more people want to forget their childhood these days than ever before. Sell the future.
I guess we can agree to disagree. I’ve seen the exact opposite of people trying to recapture their childhood
@@johndough23 This is true. I am in my 60s. I find although I am somewhat attracted to what I had in my youth, I tend to BUY what I wanted but didn't have in my youth. Growing up, we didn't have much money and our living room was a hodge-podge of real and fake wood, all different tones. I hated that. My living room now has all walnut furniture from the 1930s to early 1960s. No fake wood!
I’m 72. If I were as stubborn as you say everyone my age is, I wouldn’t have subscribed and be binge watching your channel. You have great content but ease up on generalizing about people. Thanks😅
Didn’t mean any Ill Will was just basing the opinion off of our experience with many different generations of people. Other videos talk about the youngers as well
Good luck dumping bean r babies and hess trucks.😳🤔🤣
Tough sells right now but honestly they are selling better in 2022 then they did in 2015
Except the administration trashed the economy. SMH.
All we can do is the best we can in a crappy situation. Good thing about reselling is there is always a good market for something just have to figure out what it is
Buy what you love…..not what’s trendy!!
A strategy many do
@@66uniqueantiques That’s my strategy. Don’t buy unless you love it…
The 70s & 80s stuff have been the best selling items at estate sales for 2-3 years, so I am not sure it is a new trend. I have been doing sales for 12 years.
I collect stuff I love, not stuff that I remember from my childhood, but I am a purist.
Just an FYI, I am old school and love primitives from the 1800’s or before, and I am not that old. Primitives still sell well in the right markets, for example Nashville TN or other big shows.
I agree….. everyone has different reasons for collecting what they do we have just noticed the majority always find an attachment to a childhood memory or familiarity
@@66uniqueantiques I have been in the antique business for 35 years and have seen many changes. Quality still sells, but I have had to keep up with the trends too, even though I don’t like it. Lol.
I would love to see some of those crocks! Any nice old bee sting ones?
What is old always becomes new again. We have some redwing crocks, crown and I believe we still have 2 bee sting ones. Maybe I’ll include them in the next video where I walk out shop
Great information. Thanks.
Thanks Brenda! Appreciate you watching