For vintage dealers
Real profit. Counted clean. For your niche.
Sound familiar?
You just sold a 1960s Eames lounge chair replica for $1,850. You paid $600 for it six months ago. On paper, that's a $1,250 win. Here's what the paper doesn't show.
Vintage dealing is a different game from the bin-flipper economy. Fewer items, bigger tickets, longer hold times, higher packaging costs. A $1,250 "paper margin" on a mid-century chair shrinks fast when the freight-grade box costs $85, the packing peanuts another $25, the custom-cut foam another $40, and the labor to pack it properly runs 90 minutes.
Example shown. Your cost structure will vary.
The paper number was wrong by 48%. Resale Truth tracks the real number.
For vintage dealers, the carrying cost of a piece sitting in your booth or warehouse IS a cost. So is packing it right. So is the time you invest in provenance research, photography, and condition documentation.
High-ticket vintage is a precision business. Your margin is in the hundreds but so are your costs — and any tool that doesn't model both is lying to you.
Our model tracks all of it: freight differential, carry time, skilled labor rate, packaging at cost. The real number, not the hopeful one.
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