Furniture advice for selling
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One thing you may want to do, is to be sure all legs and exposed area, are wiped with Murphy's Oil Soap., and this will raise your price. This is apart of the upkeep for the furniture.
For me, buying used furniture is like buying a used car. I'm not going to pay anywhere near retail once its been used. The moment you put it in your home the value drops at least in half. There is no telling how the original owner treated it, if they have pests, if their cat peed on it, if their kids/gandkids peed on it...Too many factors for me to be willing to pay more than 50% of what you paid for it. Then I start picking apart condition, odor, age factors. Likewise, when I sell furniture pieces, I try to really take my own advise and price accordingly. Slightly above what I hope to get, and willing to negotiate.
I have couple antiques (side needlepoint seat chair, 1865; Cabot/Wrenn hand-made 24" walnut round table). I know what their Value is supposed to be...but when I show photos to dealers, they drop price way down (e,g,, $100 for chair; $50 for table! Recommend bidding on Ebay?
Unless you have some pieces that are made by a designer or are valuable antiques with maker's marks on them, please don't expect to "make back" anything like what you paid for them! People buy used furniture to save money or do upcycle. If they could or wanted to get new, they'd pay stores prices and have their pick of any style/color, etc.
Pretty much figure that you enjoyed it, used it and whatever you now get for the pieces is "found money".