To sell or not to sell?? Wedding Dress Dry Cleaning / Preservation - LA or OC

I believe most bridal stores have an advertised listing for a company that will preserve the dress. I live in Fort Lauderdale fl and I have seen it at all the shops I have gone to. (which if I am not mistaken is dry cleaning the dress and putting it in a nice box). This will ensure that the gown will not fade or have any discoloration (should you keep it or if it takes a while for the dress to sell). Unfortunately I am not sure of the name of the company that does the preserving. I would do some checking around in your area at bridal stores. If you are looking at selling it I think really it is your choice weather or not you want to have it cleaned/preserved. It would be a nice gesture, I would think having a cleaned dress sounds more appealing for a potential buyer. People can be a bit weird when It comes to high priced used items and it not being cleaned. Think of it this way.. if you were going to buy a used Mercedes would you prefer to buy it detailed or the way someone left it?

I have been looking at purchasing a pre-owned dress and for my self I would prefer that it was already cleaned.

Thanks Alicia. I think I will definitely dry clean it. Need to do some research and get more recommendations on different cleaners in my area.

I listed my dress for sale on oncewed.com and did have it professionally cleaned ($125) but not preserved after the wedding.

On a side note, has anyone ever sold a gown on one of those sites? How long did it take? Seems like I am getting a lot of scam emails (will send certified check after courier picks up dress) from it and no serious inquiries. (I'm not falling for it - the site recommends escrow.com, but have not used that either.)

I sold my Romona Keveza french alencon lace over silk taffeta dress on Once Wed. It took 3 weeks from initial posting to $$ in my pocket. I used escrow.com and not paypal since paypal is not seller friendly and it worked out fine.

I had the dress dry cleaned, not preserved. It was $200 in Santa Monica for cleaning and repairing a few small tears in the lace. I am obviously a proponent of selling

I used oncewed.com and did not pay for the upgrades. I told myself if it took longer than a month then I would post on the sites that charge money. Fortunately, that didn't happen.

Thanks, that is helpful, K. I also have it listed on Craig's List. Like you, I don't want to pay for posting if I don't have to.

K.,

What cleaner did you use in Santa Monica? Do you recommend them?

Thanks for all the info!

I sold my dress without cleaning it. (I fully disclosed this to the buyer, and sent her my article on how to clean a dress yourself.) I bought my dress for $450 and sold it for $225. Getting it professionally cleaned it would have cost around $150. My view was that there was no way I could have raised the price of the dress to $375 to cover the cost of cleaning, when I had bought it for only $450.

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