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GB is fine for cheap spoons, as the people who frequent GB are lower end buyers.

Consigning a spoon to a spoon shop is an excercise in futility..ost are gona take 15% to 20%. PROBLEM is that only so many eyes will see your spoon.

That leaves only two venues to sell them through..an internet web site like GB, GI or a speciality Blog site that caters to your brand of spoon OR an auction house like Little Johns, Rock Island or a host of other brick and mortar auction sites that now have internet presence. They will charge the Seller anywhere from 1% to 20% Sellers commish...

The former is where you have to do your own marketing and shipping etc. The later is the auction house does if for you for their cut. The advantage to the auction house is that there is a sale date and if you have a number of items to sell you will get a chunk of dinero at one pop. You might not sell all at once but....It is tough to say where you get the best return..it maybe a soft day for your items and vice versa? After the auction house fees it maybe a push.

I kinda look at it that it is my investment risk in the item and I do not feel like giving an auctioneer a cut for the privilege of selling my item. with really big ticket items an auctioneer will charge 1% sellers commish as he is going to make 15% to 20% on the Buyer...that can add up to a lot of money for a few minutes work. Lets say 65K on that Colt Walker that hammered at 970K...not bad for 3 minutes on the auction block.