sellingantiques Reviews 13

Dealing with Susannah and Richard of Midwinter Antiques was truly a pleasure! I purchased a military campaign chest from them and was extremely satisfied with its quality. They even arranged shipment to Germany. Throughout the entire process, the quality of service they provided was outstanding. This dealer has my highest recommendation!

Poor website. Mobile version totally rubbish.
Different rules for different dealers. Some people post photos from back of their cars???!! Some photos blurry and with clutter around so you can’t see what are you looking at. No useful updates for sellers. No automatic reposting of stock like on other sites. Unverified dealers selling dodgy stock like royal house antiques etc. Dealers are moving away to more seller friendly sites.

Poorly run website. Not seller friendly. Other sites automatically relist old stock after few weeks which often results in sales. Moreover some dealers get special treatment from management, they can relist and duplicate stock, they don't have to type dimensions in required fields and can post not up to scratch photos, other dealers are penalise for all the above. The site loses 5-7 dealers every week, they move to better maintained and dealer friendly sites.

This web site it´s a great copilation of antiques and you can find what you look for, easy to use and very usefull information aboyt the antiques. The info it´s quality and updated,
I recomend it!!

Be Very careful when buying a vintage pocket watch via this site from "vintage wrist watches". What I was told when I made an enquiry by telephone regarding condition of a particular watch. Was Not what I expected upon examination when I received it!.
The watch was not as described and the item was returned on the same day as received. The seller was notified. Sadly their response was a complete denial refuting my reasons for a return. A refund was made which is the only positive I have from this poor experience.

Might i suggest judging from some of the reviews, particularly about the photos on here, and as a seller on Selling antiques.
I suggest the best thing maybe to do is WhatsApp video call the dealer selling the item and then you get to see the item in real time.
We always welcome this !!.
Thank you Rupert Hitchcox antiques.
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I completely agree with some of the previous reviews. Learning from my experience, one must be very careful when buying antiques using this website even from dealers who are affiliated to reputable antiques associations such as LAPADA. I have had problems with dealers such as Cloverleaf and Webberley antiques, etc. Their photos have been nicely photoshopped to embellish their antiques. Cloverleaf even shows a photo of their LAPADA certificate to accompany each of their pieces to suggest the piece has been approved by the association. This is very misleading. My suggestion would be to request additional photos for the piece you are considering, preferably taken outside without any artificial light and showing every possible angle of the piece. Another problem is the use of untrustworthy couriers who can cause a lot of upset. I would suggest to request the dealers to guarantee delivery for a certain date before sending them payment. In conclusion, extreme caution is needed when using this website as there are no regulations or code of conduct.

The continuing saga of jewellery returned to Selling Antiques! Website says you can use Amex. But we have been charged 20% for removing a tag and instead of receiving refund to Amex it was credited to PayPal account which my husband does not have! Beware!

Do remember that this is just a marketplace hosting any number of dealers without any check on their honesty or integrity. There is no system for reviews of individual members. Some sellers on here are members of professional antique dealers associations eg Bada, Lapada and Cinoa giving some confidence in their expertise and integrity.
The guiding principle here is caveat emptor - let the buyer beware. My experience has been mixed, I have bought some good genuine pieces of antique furniture and I have bought some duds from shady characters. The latest dud was a so called gilded bronze Sino-Tibetean deity dated circa 1900. I should have known better the dealer had "Quality" in his company title (always suspicious when they trumpet that) and the piece still had foundry ash inside its hollow interior -obviously cast within the last year if not the last week!. So the lesson is buy very very carefully and if in any doubt don't. I may add that for some non-accredited dealers the term Georgian is used promiscuously and erroneously. One swanky London dealer had a (very good) obviously Edwardian cabinet described as Georgian and this item was over £1,000. Beware !

‘Antique’ jewellery?

Large quantities of jewellery being sold at exorbitant prices without any antique hallmarks, utter sham!

A sound enterprise which works well if you find something you cannot live without (happens frequently) and never experienced any difficulty with any of the traders. BUT: the site has disappointed me in two ways recently: first it is gradually filling up with French rubbish that I wouldn't allow in my house if you paid me double the asking price, and second, for the first time in years I am conscious of the same items going round on a cycle, presumably because things are not selling like they used to. I reached my boredom threshold now and will probably not bother to look at the site for quite some time.

I have used this site to buy a beautiful wardrobe. The site has many antique dealers in one place. I sent an email to the seller Abacus antiques, via the site and got a prompt reply. The seller was great and the wardrobe arrived within a few days - quicker than a high street furniture company. Brilliant. I will definitely use them again.