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Antiquities and Secondhand trade |
To exert these trades requires smartness and a
sensitivity to art. It is necessary to like to cloud and obtain
an artisanal know-how. Two interesting professions but with
random profitability. |
The trade |
| The antique dealer and the second-hand dealer center
their occupation on the sale, the exchange and the acquisition of worn
movable objects. A difference all the same separates them:
the second-hand dealer sells without guarantee, while the
antique dealer identifies objects and Formula One a diagnosis on their
authenticity. Each one is armed with an address book, nouveau
riche to the wire of the meetings. The names of the appraisers
appear in it in good place. One will call upon them to run out
quickly of the collections.La customers of the antique dealers is
composed mainly of frameworks of more than 30 years or fond of
delicacies purchasers exerting a liberal profession of invaluable
objects. That of the second-hand dealers, more diversified much,
research more of the strange one. 54 % of the French attended a
secondhand trade (fair or store) during last six months. The
share with export remains very important: the puciers realize up
to 80 % of their sales turnover near foreign customers. |
Caution: Stocks |
| The antique dealer beginning encounters great
difficulties to constitute his stock whereas the second-hand dealer,
with a capital of 15 000 euros, can hope to leave himself
there. To adopt the statute of travelling merchant or to take in
deposit parts of a fellow-member can facilitate a difficult beginning
of activity. The second-hand dealer undergoes full whip the
competition of the nonprofessional salesmen of the vacuum-attics
organized by caritative associations and the town halls. This
"unfair" presence is all the more felt that some, without experiment,
sell off their objects without knowing their true value. The
occupation of antique dealer is developed by it by contrast since it
is guarantor of an ethics considered to be higher. |
To launch out |
| Two scenarios are possible: to settle as
commercial peddler (in which case you will have to obtain from a
prefecture or from a sub-prefecture the indentity card of tradesman
nonsedentary); to open a shop of a minimal surface of 20 m2
(also envisage a place to store the goods and a commercial vehicle).
The objects of secondhand trade will be sold at least the double
of the purchase price taking into account the standing fixed overheads
which burden the running costs. In terms of volume of activity,
the annual sales turnovers realized with the chips spread out between
30 000 and 1,5 million euros. The authorization of resale
of movable objects is subjected to a preliminary declaration. In
addition, this activity requires the respect of the formalities and
the obligations common to all the tradesmen. Among them, the
inscription with the trade register (RCS). Will know that a
double registration is possible for those which cumulate the statutes
of craftsman and repairer of furniture. The completed
paperwork, it will not any more remain you but to receive and
convince your customers.
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Contact |
| National trade union of the trade of antiquity and
occasion (SNCAO), 18, street of Provence, 75009 Paris. Tel.:
01 44 70 88 78. www.sncao.com. |
Source: The Company
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