Quick! FUR IDENTITY Silver Persian BROADTAIL?

Bombshell*Frocks

Bombshell*Frocks

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I had this coat listed as Silver Persian Lamb last week and it bombed.

What type of lamb is this?? Broadtail?? It has a moire pattern??
Please help as I NEED the money and am relisting this today but I want to describe it correctly.

This COAT<P>
TIA, ~Tori<P>
Closeup of the fur....<P>
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Tori, I'm not sure.....it SURE is a lovely coat though and your
listing looks great with the scan and video - definitely as classic
and stylish now as *then*.

Hopefully one of the fur mavens will come along.

sue
 
Hi Sue!

Do you think it's broadtail? The collar I had described as white mink but now when I look at it, it isn't white, it's more of a champagne color, now I'm not even sure it's mink???.....sigh....~Tori
 
Tori,

I just checked the VFG fur resource and I THINK it is
broadtail. Broadtail is not as tightly curled as Persian
and looks like yours. I think the collar is mink, but
would change the colour to "champagne" (great
descriptive!) as it doesn't look totally white in your
listing.

VFG Lamb Fur Resource

Sue
 
I looked at the fur resource to and some ended listings of broadtail and I think it is to. I am changing the white to champagne and the color of the persian to silvery charcoal gray...and maybe the starting bid $29.99 EEEEEEK!

OT:
I need to sell this quickly as I am leaving for upstate New York next Thursday, Danny is driving there right now as I type this to do some more work on that old building we bought and I'm flying up to meet and drive back with him and hopefully find some great stuff at estate and barn sales...
Here's the property we bought...we REALLY did get it for that price...but it has MORE problems that he was prepared for. We were going to keep it and get a New York State Dealers Lic and live up there in the summers but now he wants to sell it....I should have known...
Our Property in New York
 
Tori, if you can, I would lower the opening bid - maybe to $49.99. I've found lately that the lower the opening bid (if I can afford to do it),
the better the end result.

What a neat property! Definitely looks like it needs a ton of work, but
how wonderful it would be if you could completely renovate and revamp
(I think it would cost a ton of money though).

Does it have an attic? Make sure you search it for treasures before
selling it.

Sue
 
Ok, I will lower that opening, hate to do it because I have about $50.00 into the darn thing not including the fees for listing it 2 times.

Ya know, I am not sure if it does have an attic, I will have to ask Danny, it was built in 1890 but the foundation was built in the early 1800s as it was an old fire house then it became an opera training house and supposedly someone famous trained there, I am still doing research on that. Danny was told this by the next door neighbor when he flew up there 2 weeks ago, the neighbor has pictures but I haven't seen them yet, I will let you guys know when I see this place and my opinion.... hehehehe ~Tori
 
Rats! Too bad I didn't see this post last night before bed.

I've found the following to be helpful when selling items I spent (what I call) big money on. I'll use a lower starting bid to draw attention to my item then I'll place a reserve price on it but, and this really DOES work!, I tell the viewers of the auction that "I've placed a reserve of XXX amount on this item to protect my investment." It works 100% of the time! The Big Book of Buttons is testament to that! My reserve was $200 and I noted that in the listing and it brought in over $100 MORE than my reserve! I think that when potential customers know in advance that my reserve isn't an astronomical amount of money they are more willing to take a chance to bid on my item. After all, they already know the least I'm willing to take for it but they're more comfortable starting at a lower bid and as they get used to the idea of having that item they get that "bug" to own it and bid more!!

I hope that my convoluted thought process helps anyone else out!

patti
 
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