BUY DIRECT AND SAVE
Why buying direct from European Vintage Emporium costs less
When you find something you love at European Vintage Emporium, you can buy it directly from us through our own website.
Our prices on the EVE website are lower than our prices on third-party marketplaces such as Etsy and eBay. That’s because selling through those platforms comes with significant fees. Depending on the marketplace and the sale, we can pay around 20–30% of a transaction in marketplace and payment-related fees.
When you buy directly from us, we don’t have those third-party selling costs.
We pass some of that saving on to you through lower prices.
It’s not about us making more money from direct sales. It’s about giving you a better deal when you choose to buy directly from the people who sourced the item.
We are a small family business based in Normandy, France, and we sell genuine vintage and antique items to customers throughout the world.
The simplest way to get our best price?
Buy direct from EVE.
LOWER SHIPPING COSTS TOO
Buying direct can save you money on postage as well as the item
The saving doesn’t stop at the item price.
Our website also offers significantly better multiple-item postage rates than our third-party selling platforms. When you buy several items directly from us in one order, you generally pay postage only for the heaviest single item. Additional items are sent without an additional postage charge, subject to our postage terms.
For example, if you find ten smaller vintage and antique items you’d like to buy, you don’t pay ten separate postage charges.
This is one of the biggest advantages of buying directly from EVE.
We also don’t try to hide postage costs by artificially inflating item prices. Our approach is straightforward: the customer pays the actual costs involved in safely getting their purchases to them.
That includes proper packaging, tracked delivery and insurance where applicable. We explain exactly how our postage costs work on our Postage & Packing page.
Buy direct, combine your purchases and let us do the packing.
OUR PRICE MATCH PROMISE
Found the same thing cheaper elsewhere? Tell us.
We don’t expect you to buy from us without checking the market.
If you find the same or a genuinely comparable vintage or antique item in similar condition elsewhere for less, send us the details or a link.
We’ll take a look and, wherever we reasonably can, we’ll try to match or beat the competing price.
We don’t promise to match every offer. Condition, authenticity, provenance, postage and the reputation and service offered by the seller all matter when comparing vintage and antique items.
But we’ve been buying and selling vintage and antiques for decades, so we have a pretty good understanding of the market.
Found it cheaper? Give us a chance to compete.
Why buy from EVE directly?
Buying directly from our website means:
LOWER ITEM PRICES
No third-party marketplace selling fees built into our direct prices.
LOWER MULTI-ITEM POSTAGE
Combine purchases and generally pay postage only for the heaviest item.
PRICE MATCHING
Find a comparable item cheaper and we’ll see what we can do.
DIRECT CONTACT
You’re dealing directly with the people who sourced the item, not a marketplace intermediary.
THE BEST WAY TO SHOP EVE
Our Etsy and eBay shops are useful places to discover us, and we’re delighted to have customers find us there. But if you’re ready to buy, our own website is where we can offer our best direct pricing.