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Tips for Turning Your Vintage
Postcards into Best Sellers on eBay
Vintage
postcards are perennial best sellers, on and off eBay, and
you can make double or even triple figure sums from a vintage
postcard that cost next to nothing or which you obtained free of
charge. These tips will help make sure you profit big
time:
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Oftentimes a topographical vintage postcard has some other
feature, such as a postmark, postage stamp or autograph that
makes it more valuable and likely to interest more than just
postcard collectors.
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Real photographic vintage postcards were created individually
and required constant attention during the development process,
unlike most printed postcards that emerged from machines in
their thousands and were often poor quality compared to real
photographs. So a good real photograph of an unusual event
could be very rare, possibly unique, and fetch hundreds of
pounds if just two people are desperate to have it.
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Generally speaking, the older the card, the more valuable it
might be, although some modern cards are valuable for other
reasons, because they are autographed, for example, or belonged
to a famous owner.
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Avoid unnamed locations except for really unusual cards or where
clues exist to their location which you can check and verify and
add to your eBay listing. A postmark, for example, or a
sender's address, might feature the location of the
topographical view.
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Keep listings separate for postcards from the same or nearby
geographical areas. This is because some people will be
making last minutes bids on several items which, if selling too
closely together, could find them missing some auctions and
become disappointed and harassed and even losing interest
altogether. Five minutes between listings is enough time
for people interested in consecutive items to move between
bidding on one card to bidding on the next.
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Avril Harper is
a triple eBay PowerSeller and author of BANK BIG PROFITS
SELLING VINTAGE TOPOGRAPHICAL VIEW POSTCARDS ON
EBAY
which you can read about at:
http://www.sellpostcardsonebay.com and MAKE MONEY
TEARING UP OLD BOOKS
AND MAGAZINES
AND SELLING THEM ON EBAY
which you can read about at:
http://www.magstoriches.com
She has
produced a free guide - 103 POWERSELLER TIPS - which you
can download with other freely distributable reports and eBooks
at:
http://www.avrilharper.com
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