Selling Antiques Online in 2025

Born in the 1940s and passionate antique collectors all our lives, it’s time for my wife and I to get serious about finding homes for our “treasures”.

Starting in 1998, we bought hundreds of items on eBay. It was a lot of fun and we built extensive collections of hand-blown glassware from Blenko & others, Smokers & Nutcrackers from the Erzgebirge region of Germany, Gerold Porcelain, Lyman Byxbe etchings, and Southwestern art.

With hundreds of positive feedback on eBay, it would be the logical venue on which to find interested, younger collectors.

Unfortunately, eBay is no longer the place we knew and loved.

We tried to avoid buying duplicates. That means we would have to create listings for thousands of individual items.

Many of our items are not worth enough to justify the time and cost of listing; but are too nice to throw out or send to Goodwill.

The administrative overhead required to meet eBay’s seller requirements is beyond insane. We have no interest in spending hundreds of hours building an antiques sales business on eBay.

eCommerce using our own platform is our chosen alternative. Unfortunately, eCommerce is not as easy as hundreds of Influencers claim.

We are building WordPress websites where we use Surecart and Airtable to provide the functionality we need to provide a professional and personal experience for our customers.

X2 is where we will publish tips and tutorials to help other collectors downsize their holdings.