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I am looking for suggestions/recommendations on where to sell my extensive collection of beads.
Long before I began to collect colored gemstones, I strung and sold beads. It became obvious pretty quickly that I was a little obsessive, always feeling like I needed to purchase one more different size/color/material in order to finish a necklace or pair of earrings...obviously leaving me with a constantly growing inventory of beads. After a while I realized that I just liked having all these beads, looking at them and dreaming about what I would make with them. I now have a fairly big assortment of beads and findings. I loved combining various unusual combinations to make necklaces. I'll try and attach photos of one of the necklaces I made, a hand knotted, pastel pink freshwater pearl and mandarin garnet two strand necklace. It makes me happy just thinking about making these pieces, and while I would love to get back into it, I really doubt I will.
So here I am with this inventory of beads. Whole strands of mainly gemstone and pearl beads. Handmade Thai silver accent beads. Swarovski crystal and seed beads. Various shell, wood and seed pod beads. To me, they are all beautiful and I need to let them go to someone who will not only love them, but use them! My question: how do you sell something like this? Individually on ebay? In groupings by type of bead? I have beads made from high quality sapphire, mandarin garnet, emerald, tsavorite, moonstone and many other gemstones. Should I sell them by strand - might be $100 plus per strand - or sell them by a section of the strand to keep the price down? Am I making a crazy amount of work for myself and is there an easier way?
It seems to me that I may have several thousand dollars that could be freed up by selling these beads. What do you think? Any ideas?
TIA
Long before I began to collect colored gemstones, I strung and sold beads. It became obvious pretty quickly that I was a little obsessive, always feeling like I needed to purchase one more different size/color/material in order to finish a necklace or pair of earrings...obviously leaving me with a constantly growing inventory of beads. After a while I realized that I just liked having all these beads, looking at them and dreaming about what I would make with them. I now have a fairly big assortment of beads and findings. I loved combining various unusual combinations to make necklaces. I'll try and attach photos of one of the necklaces I made, a hand knotted, pastel pink freshwater pearl and mandarin garnet two strand necklace. It makes me happy just thinking about making these pieces, and while I would love to get back into it, I really doubt I will.
So here I am with this inventory of beads. Whole strands of mainly gemstone and pearl beads. Handmade Thai silver accent beads. Swarovski crystal and seed beads. Various shell, wood and seed pod beads. To me, they are all beautiful and I need to let them go to someone who will not only love them, but use them! My question: how do you sell something like this? Individually on ebay? In groupings by type of bead? I have beads made from high quality sapphire, mandarin garnet, emerald, tsavorite, moonstone and many other gemstones. Should I sell them by strand - might be $100 plus per strand - or sell them by a section of the strand to keep the price down? Am I making a crazy amount of work for myself and is there an easier way?
It seems to me that I may have several thousand dollars that could be freed up by selling these beads. What do you think? Any ideas?
TIA
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