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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 434042, member: 6444&quot;]Sis is absolutely right - for online sale the maker name is critical. Once you know it then it is also easy to search solds on eBay to see what the market value is. Neither teapot looks special to me for resale - in general pottery and porcelain is a hard sell today with a few exceptions. To find those exceptions you need to know who made it. So start with the markings underneath and you can research it yourself or here. But this is one of the hardest things to make a lot of money on - and it’s hard to ship.</p><p><br /></p><p>Costume jewelry also requires knowing who made it if you’re going to make money from resale. But if you can find jewelry priced as costume that is actually authentic precious metals, then you can sell for a lot more than you pay. That requires you to know the difference - you need to know more than the seller.</p><p><br /></p><p>It helps a LOT if you live in or can shop in a rich area (thrift stores in rich cities and suburbs or in retirement areas like Florida and Arizona are best). That is why some people like journey find lots of stuff cheap while others almost never see anything worth buying at their local thrift stores. This is I think the most important determinant of whether you’re likely to find anything worth reselling. Yard sales can also turn up things, but real yard sales (someone moving or cleaning out an estate), not the people selling the same thing every week as a small side business.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also different thrift stores have different expertise and you need to find the types of things they let slip through. Some put out all silver pieces at silver plate prices in which case you’ll occasionally score with a piece of unknown sterling way under melt value. Or some put out all jewelry at costume prices. Others put out all handbags for the same price so if you know which are designer pieces you can score there. Start with what you know, but be willing to walk out without buying anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>This may not be the time for you to start since everyone makes lots of mistakes especially at first, so if you need to watch your money carefully now you may end up with things that are hard to resell or that you will take a loss on. Better to use your money where it is needed until you have extra you can use and until you know better what is an underpriced bargain.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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