Visit an auction house or a specialist estimator to get a price estimate for your Chinese antiques before you offer anything for sale.
Register with Old and Sold.com.,an online antique sales site where you can sell nearly any antique items. Enter the name of the item you want to sell on the registration page. Choose a category for the item. Upload images of the antiques you want to sell. Describe the goods for sale in a few words. Set a price for the items and finally choose a user name and password for yourself.
Register an account with Antiques TV. Choose a membership type and enter your name, gender, where you are from and your e-mail address. Choose a user name, password and a security question to finish registration.
Register an account on eBay and place an advertisement in the antiques section. eBay is a popular place to sell and buy antiques and many professionals visit it regularly. Enter your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and ZIP code on eBay's registry pages. Choose a user name, a secret question and a password. Read and click that you agree to the terms and conditions.
Check the sales progress on the auction sites regularly. There are two options to sell your antiques: for a fix price or for an auction price. If you do not want to risk getting less money for your item than you think it may be worth, put a fixed price on your Chinese antiques.
Register with an auction house. Leave your item in the care of the auction house that will sell the item for you for a fee. Famous auction houses are Sotheby's and Christie's, but there are also many smaller auction houses in towns and cities across the U.S.
Enter your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and gender at the registry pages of Sotheby's or Chrisitie's. Choose a user name, password and security code. Read the terms and conditions before you click "continue."
Visit an antique shop and offer your items to the owner. Often antique shop owners will buy your items for a fixed price if the owner thinks he can sell the items. Also, organize a yard sale. Advertise in the local newspaper when the yard sale will take place. Drop leaflets in your neighbor's mailboxes and call up friends and family to let them know about the upcoming yard sale and what is going to be up for sale.
Advertise your Chinese antiques in the newspapers or classifieds. Describe the item in a few words, set a price for the item and details on how you will deliver the item and how much postage and packaging is.