Originally Posted by
KalamaQuilts
Would it make you feed better if you knew most of those collector sets sell on ebay for about 3-5 dollars each? A friends family asked me to part out her personal estate on ebay, she had several 100 plates from difference collections. Sadly pretty hopeless task. The problem isn't the quality, most are lovely, it is just that they are so overpriced to begin with.
good luck paring down, if I were anywhere near you I'd come relieve you of the scrap bags
I passed on buying some beautiful blue Danish Mother's Day plates for 25 cents each at my local thrift store. Not worth much of anything on ebay. If I had a permanent home I would have bought them for myself.
Just about anything that is sold as a collectible (Franklin Mint, etc) winds up next to worthless. There were just too many of them made.