How to Sell a Steinway Piano
Selling a Steinway piano is not an easy task. A seller may have to visit a few different avenues to finalize a sale and actually make some money.
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Instructions
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Selling the Steinway Piano
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Clean and tune your Steinway Piano. If you do not know how to tune a piano, hire someone who can. it is worth the small investment. Take photos of it with your digital camera to use in ads.
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Create accounts on eBay and Craigslist. You will need them to sell your Steinway piano online. When you list it on eBay and Craiglist, make sure you specify that the buyer must pick up the piano from you directly.
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Peruse the classified ads of your local newspaper to see if anyone is selling or looking to purchase a Steinway piano. You can gauge the price your Steinway piano may get by looking at what the asking price for others are.
When you list your Steinway piano for sale in your local paper, make the ad brief, and specify that the piano must be picked up from you directly. Include your contact information, including phone number and email address. -
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Using your telephone book, call music stores and find out if they sell used pianos on consignment. If they do, ask to make an appointment to discuss your Steinway piano, and bring photos and information to the store.
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Place posters in the music department of high schools and colleges in your area. Make the posters read like a classified ad, and include photos. Don't forget to include your contact information.
Closing the Sale
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When you and your buyer agree on a price, write a sales agreement that you both will sign.
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Arrange a date and time for your buyer to pick up the piano. Make sure that the buyer brings cash, a money order or a certified check.
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Give your buyer a receipt when the transaction is completed.
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Tips & Warnings
Have the potential buyers play the piano to see that it is in tune. Show the receipt from the piano tuner.
Do not accept a personal check from someone that you do not know. If someone is coming to your house to look at the piano from an ad that you ran either online or in the newspaper, make sure that someone else is home with you.
