. Go to eBay, and hit the Advanced Search link next to the top search box. Enter the brand of clarinet you have, and before searching, click to choose “Completed Auctions.” Try to find comparable sales based on age, condition, similarity of models or serial numbers. Prices listed in green are for items that actually sold. Prices listed in red indicate items that did not sell.
Check the reviews for instruments found here at ClarinetPages and determine if your clarinet is a professional, semi-professional, or student model clarinet, and whether it is a contemporary or vintage model. Find the paragraph near the end of most reviews that starts with the words “This clarinet is most appropriate for” See the last row of the table below if you can't find information on your clarinet at this site. Update 19Feb2018: Most of the page below was written several years ago when the used clarinet market was better. In all the places below where I suggest listing a clarinet for a fixed price, this advice from David Watson is probably better: The vintage clarinet market hasn't been doing too well as of late. My best advice is always to list it as a Buy It Now listing (NOT auction), for a price 50% more than your bottom line. Wait for someone to make an offer and if it's above your bottom line, you're all set. Or if it is a different sizeno matter the agevalue hard to determineIf you don't have any idea about the value, you may join the.
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Make a post asking for help in identifying the value of your clarinet. Include some good clear close-up pictures in your post, like the pictures seen on this site. If you have a very valuable instrument valued at more than $1300, you may get the best price by living dangerously: Meaning, include in the listing title that it is a No-Reserve auction, and give the starting price as something like 95 cents. Choose a auction length of one week or 10 days. Your strategy is get as many people excited and bidding as soon as possible.
My advice would be that if you don't have 25 people watching and 7 people actually bidding, close the auction several days before the cut off time. (Be sure to find out how long before the closing time you can pull the auction. It may be 48 hours.) If you pull your No-Reserve auction, then list as Buy-it-now for a fixed price. For information on how to take the pictures for your listing, see below. If you are not into the risks involved in this method, then I would advise you to use the way I normally sell clarinets in this value range, which is described in the next paragraph.