Thanks to all the antique dealers met in Parma!

Following our two-day visit to Mercantinfiera in Parma, we would like to thank all the antique dealers and dealers of antique and vintage items who welcomed us with interest and willingness to display some items on the Grand Vintage portal (www.grandvintage.com) to sell them.

Most of the exhibitors were very helpful and curious.  Many of them took our tablet in hand and viewed our new website with attention and interest. All qualified it as "elegant and clean".

Many asked us very pertinent questions about the economic model: there are no costs of permanence on the web portal, you only pay a commission on the sold.Others asked us about logistics: we provide the solutions with Bartolini, SDA and other couriers.

The payments monitored by Paypal and Banca Sella are the most secure in the market.

Moreover, if an item is proposed simultaneously on the Grand Vintage portal and in the shop, the shopkeeper has 3 days after the customer's order to confirm its availability.

In the end, almost fifty antique dealers have joined our proposal and have submitted several articles to us each to be proposed on the grandvintage.com portal, which has been set up to be used directly by antique dealers who really want to sell on the internet: just click on the "Sell" function at the top of the home page and follow the path. It is within everyone's reach.

Finally, an Italian player (our offices are in Milan and we are Italian)... that will not only operate in Italy. The grandvintage.com portal is currently being translated into English in order to address the entire world and respond to foreigners' passion for Italian taste.

There are those who, like a very cultured and brilliant architect of almost 70 years of age, have pushed us to do our best to develop our internet business because "the future of second-hand, antique and vintage furniture is clearly online, no longer just in stores!

Can you qualify a day spent with antique dealers as "working"?  Not as far as we are concerned, we appreciate too much their culture in terms of styles, design, materials used, workmanship. Often, they are also experts in art and history, they know better than anyone the designers, the artists, the royal houses that have marked the styles of their era. They are exciting encounters that entertain us and make us happy.

We are waiting for you on grandvintage.com and, in case of need or doubt, call us!


Olivier Cater