I sell all my china piece by piece. When someone is looking for an older pattern like that they are usually replacing broken or missing pieces. They might need 3 dinner plates, 2 bread plates and a cup and saucer set. For brand new patterns selling as place settings can make more sense, but personally I still do one at a time for new stuff. On some sets I have listed the salt and pepper shakers separately – and they have sold to different people! I even sold a butter dish lid once – the base was lost but I had the lid and listed it. Ditto on a Corelle tea pot lid.

Each serving piece should be listed separately – don’t sell the sugar and creamer as a set – each gets a separate listing. If you have an odd number of cups and saucers list the odd one as a separate listing, but the cups and saucers that you can match up you should sell as a set.

For the plates and such do multiple item listings. Let the buyer decide how many plates they want. :)

I’ve been selling dinnerware for a number of years and this method really works for me.

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I would first do a search and see if your pattern sells well and how on other sites.

Try over at the bay too on the pottery and glassware discussion board as many, many people there have sold
dish sets and know the best way to market them.And there are a few that know much about Noritake.

Dishes often sell better in the fall when people are getting ready for the holidays.

I would break them up into like items and sell that way. Some people are missing particular parts to a place setting and do not want the whole set or more than they need.

And it goes without saying take pictures of what you are selling and mention any flaws, issues or
damage so that the buyer can know the facts.
Much good luck.

I agree with all of the above.

Also…

I would check Replacements Ltd. and see if they were buying any piece types. Easy to do just call 1 800 Replace. They will email a price per piece that they will pay. Many times they need pieces and will offer you a fair amount…many times they don’t need them and will offer very little. (It is all supply and demand.)

Your Noritake china is very nice. The handpainted gold trim is lovely and well done.

Many buyers may just want one serving piece, etc. I would list serving pieces in individual listings.

Another option is to list sets on Craigs list. No shipping involved. People can make arrangements with you to pick them up.

Good luck.

If you go to Replacements and find your pattern do not expect to get their retail prices. Their inventory is perfect. Gone over by curators who reject any blemish,wear or imperfection.

A quick Replacements check shows they do have this pattern. They are out of stock in many pieces…worth a call. I see you live not too far away from them? You could gather up stuff and drive to see them. Make an appt.

I agree with CollectableMe all the way.

We once sold a big set of Haviland online and grossly underestimated the shipping cost by freight. It cost us $100 MORE in shipping than we advertised. We ate it out of our profit and are older & wiser from the experience.

Just like CollectableMe said, sets of 4’s online work well. At least you can get a very good handle on the shipping cost and can usually do it yourself.

If it were me, though, I’d start here on Bonanzle and/or on CraigsList as a local pickup item only and see how that goes. It’s a great looking set, and for someone in the market for it in your area, you’d be doing them a huge favor by not needing to charge shipping. (And you’d be doing yourself a huge favor by not undercalculating the shipping or having to pack it yourself!)

Best wishes with it!

I would sell them in separate LOTS, such [URL removed] saucers together, cups together, dinner plates together and so on…

I would also list them all at once so that buyers can decide what works best when shopping.

Also, this has always worked for me by adding into each listing}

NO COMBINING allowed on this LOT due to weight = no exceptions.

What works for me is to sell the dishes separately or in groups, like 4 plates, for bowls etc.
You need to describe them best as you can. A little ware on them is OK if you describe it.
Dishes are heavy so UPS is a good way to ship as they include insurance.
Price needs to be researched on the net. See what others are selling it for it will give you a good idea of what they are worth.
Take good photos and include measurements.
Hope this helps.

Hi I would first do some research to find out what they are worth. I would do a Google search.
We use to sell china in lots and pieces. When selling sets, we worried that if a piece got broken during shipment the customer would send back every thing and maybe not pack it as well as we did.
I would also try selling it local as a set prior to trying to sell the set where you have to ship it.
Hope this helps

I think is better to sell them by the piece….less risks for shipping and maybe more interesting.

I’m in agreement with collectibleme. I have vintage china for sale. I’ve grouped my pieces in to 5- or 6-piece place settings. When I’ve run out of a piece of the place setting, I’ve grouped like pieces, 4 salad plates, for example and I’ve listed others by the individual piece. While I haven’t sold a place setting yet, I have sold several groupings of like plates as well as individual plates.

Just thought I’d add that I also have sterling flatware. These I’ve priced by the piece, indicating the total number of that piece available. Perhaps I had 2 of one piece and 5 of another. My first couple of sterling buyers just bought one piece. The last several buyers bought all the pieces I had in that pattern/piece and what’s interesting is that they were odd numbers, 5 or 7.

Bottom line is I would break the set into several listings. At the end of each listing you might want to indicate all the other pieces you have and the quantities. You might also add a sentence at the end of each listing that you’d be willing to consider offers for the entire set.

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Best of luck.

I’d break it up into small lots. I’ve sold many pieces of china on another site and done well with it. Noritake is very collectable and sought after. Check at replacements.com for the high end price. If it dosen’t sell here auctions are a great place to sell sets of china.

Hi, I agree with the posts here. I have a lot of Noritake listed here on my booth Jenn’s Jewels. With a set like yours with so many pieces I would sell as place settings. For [URL removed] Dinner plate, lunch plate/salad/bread, bowl, saucer, mug…so lets say a six piece place setting but just check the box on the bottom of the Add Item field that you have multiples of the item. For all the serving pieces sell individually. Any extra pieces sell in a group. As many have said make sure you list any damage, try to keep place settings free of any chips. If you do have a setting that has a chip you may want to list it separately apart from from the place settings that you may have multiples of that are free of chips. And also very important is to check that back of the dishes…you may have some that have a “N” of the back. The ones with the “N” are newer or are produced later then the ones with an “M.” I have two sets of the same pattern of cups and saucers listed in my booth only because of the age difference and Noritake sometimes manufactures a pattern for many years. As for shipping try using USPS flat rate shipping boxes which are a fixed price for any weight up to 70 lbs. Hope this helps.

I sold one nice set of dishes on the bay and even though I packed it extra well, several cups were broken. Of course, UPS said they weren’t well packed, denied my claim. I was able to go to Replacements and get the pieces needed, but they weren’t cheap and the extra shipping cocts ate up all my profits. The buyer was thrilled as I got it all done before last Christmas. My advice, either sell it for local pickup or prepare to spend $$ for good shipping. What I don’t understand is how they get that stuff to the store in the first place. The original packing was very inferior.

That is a very beautiful set, by the way.

I would piece it out or perhaps put bowls with bowls and plates with plates, etc. Deciding on how to separate it out can be a hard decision :)

Noritake is a good name to sell usually and with the age on top of it you should do fine.

Generally I sell piece by piece but sometimes a set. Serving pieces sell the best. Then dinner plates or maybe icecream/berry bowls

I do sell dishes. You do have to be extremely careful with the packing and shipping. Service of 12- very costly to ship and great chance of damage occuring.Then you lose some of your profits.

I make much more money selling in pieces or sets. For example I may offer 8 soup bowls in one listing. In another ad I may list 12 dinner plates.

If you do a “buy it now”, people can choose whether they want to buy all 12 dinner plates or if they want to buy only one.

Hope this helps