Value of Kinkade Signed Prints?

Judy
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November 27, 20180 found this helpful

Signed ones and rare/out of print are more valuable.

Check eBay regularly to see what they are selling for. Do this before you put yours up for sale.

Pghgirl40
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November 27, 20180 found this helpful

With this many TK items in your collection, I strongly suggest that find a good auction house and have them handle this for you so you can possibly get the max for the items.

There are MANY, MANY, MANY, MANY TK items on the market some are valued high, some, significantly less than what people paid for them. The market is saturated and it is really hard to weed out the good and the bad for value.

All of that said, if you have rare and retired and original signed, you want to get the max for them and you want buyer confidence which you will most likely NOT have if you sell them on your own. I mean this with no disrespect, but unless a person is an established seller on eBay and has history with an item that has a value of more than say $25 or $30 dollars, most people are going to pass the person over even if it is the item they want.

Not too many folks are willing to sell out thousands of dollars to inexperienced eBay sellers even if it is something they dearly want. It is the fear factor. I know...I have been selling on eBay since 2001 and it took years before I had enough feedback that people would even consider some of my higher value items. It is human nature to be wary!

For this reason, I discourage you from trying to sell or even try to value them on eBay (and I recommend eBay for everything)

What I have finally come to realize about eBay and TK is you will almost NEVER find an exact match for your item. There are a bazillion out there, a bazillion different frame types, some with COA, some without COA etc. It is too frustrating.

The other thing I have found is people selling them don't always know what they have and sometimes under value their items OR thing they overvalue them so much that they never sell so it becomes challenging even if you find an exact match to find a sold version of it.

Put your town into google with the phrase Thomas Kinkade auction and see if you have a local dealer who specializes in selling them.

Make sure you understand their process and their percentages and that you agree with the values they place on them based on your own knowledge. Be sure to follow your auctions online and follow up with them for payouts so you get them promptly! This can be a great way to sell off large lots safely and have the buyers really getting what they want and you getting the money you want for the item!

Post back how it all goes and how well you fare from the process!

Good luck!!

cybergrannie
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November 28, 20180 found this helpful

You may have to Google auctions specializing in Kinkade or even art to be able to discuss having them handle your prints.

• If you sell them as a group you may not realize more then $10-$25 each as that is the way auctions go but that would be a clean sweep.
• It is difficult for newbies to understand how auctions work because they get money from everybody involved (fees/commissions). Once you turn you prints over to the auction you have no say in how they are handled and you cannot stop a sale; many auctions will not allow the owner to be in the room during the auction process (due to problems they have had during previous auctions).
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• They will give you a legal and binding contract to sign and it may only state what the starting bid will be or they may state the minimum price you will accept. They will not take it if they do not think it will sell at or above that price but the owner will still owe money to the auction even if the items do not sell.
• You should sort out any prints that you believe to be signed and maybe try to sell those separately. Out of print is not saying very much as most of the older prints on sale now are out of print.
• Paintings are usually very slow sellers even at low prices and shipping is always expensive which adds to the price of the print.
• Prints are not always very valuable as these are on the low end of the stack. Canvas is the most valuable but still very slow to sell.
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• Pghgirl is correct in all she says about the market being saturated and it has been for a long time. The studio just made and sold too many of each type and size. Their value is not anywhere near what people thought their investment would bring.
• The link below is to a company that may be interested in your prints or they may give you an appraisal. You can contact them and they will be able to tell you how to sort your prints for reviewing.
• www.kinkadecapitola.com/contact.html