![]() I hope you didn't really belive someone serviced a ladies watch and sold it to you for under $100? Servicing a pocket watch is one thing Serving a wrist watch is another Serving a tiny ladies movement is yet another thing. I guess all we get for our efforts are the satisfaction from our work (the number one benefit for me anyway!). The restoration was near perfect Stephen.and the value-added is obvious.but unless you roll the dice on an auction you may (or may not) get what you want for it. But it is worth every penny you are asking for it.but it may be hard to get someone to buy it. I only needed a case for it.and therefore I decided to pass because I don't need two!. Personally, I would buy it in a heartbeat except I have the same working movement. Your gorgeous and rare Bulova pocket watch is a fine example. You would think that the time spent looking through all the auction listings, having an eye for quality, researching to ID the model, knowing a thing or two about watch repair, and owning an accummulating of NOS parts, crystals, and straps.and then preserving the Bulova legacy and history of a timepiece (or as I like to think of them, pieces of functional art) would allow a person to realize somehting for their value-added service. ![]() I'm not sure of the best way to get the best value for your collectible Buova timepieces (maybe you can submit your opinion?) So I suggest to you, as Bulovas Collectors, to collect to hold and give away to freinds or family later Or have your wife dispose of them when you're deceased! No one wants to pay for quality.they all want to overpay for junk and kid themselves that they got a deal! You should plan now on whom you will give you watches to.because otherwise they will become a recycled Ebay auction after your are gone! Then you can accept any reasonable offer and reject the obsurd ones! Therefore, I just wanted to point out what appears to be the pricing strategy and valuation methodology for restored vintage Bulova watches: Take a gamble on an Ebay auction and hope for the best.or second, set a minimum you wil accept as a price as the starting auction price and hope anyone will even bid, or third, just price them at what you value them at.and allow for buyers to submit a Best Offer. You MIGHT get $100 for your watch.or you might sell for under $20 using this strategy. So to my dismay.there does not appear to be a market for these watches - even in pristine condition.that is unless you start an auction off at $.99 and hope there are 15-20 bidders willing to compete for your piece. I have been the victim of bidders pushing-up the price on an item numerous times this way.and ended up over-paying either because I really wanted it or I needed whatever I was buying. My regret about buying, restoring, and now selling is no one wants to pay for a watch unless they get caught-up in the Ebay bidding competition game. So how do you price them when you want to sell (to pay mediacal expenses, because the wife insists you do, or because you want to "invest" in something else?)? Do you price them to give them away? Or do you price them according to your investment in saving them for posterity? I doubt you will ever sell them to make money (although I have sold watches for 3-4 times Ebay prices previously on my own website and made money). restore, or repair value if you are going to sell it? I doubt it! ![]() ![]() I just ask you: Do you want to sell your treasured timepieces for salvale. One day something that is in really rough condition will sell for an astronomical price.and the next day your pristine watch that you bought, cleaned-up, found a NOS crystal for it, bought a NOS strap for it.can sell for $29. #Gixen how many seconds how to#As indicated on the other blog posts, you never know how to price your collection when you go to liquidate it. I currently have numerous watches for sale on Ebay. ![]() I would like to add some comments in a new blog. There was a blog posted on this subject in Dec 2011 by Plainsman. ![]()
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