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.
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.