If a seller lists an item for $6,000, but accepts a "best offer" that's much lower, eBay doesn't share what that offer was — it will still show that the item sold for the price originally listed.He sees this happen a lot at Syl-Lee Antiques. FIND 1000's of Antiques, Art, Vintage & RARE Collectables - each item pictured, described and with it's price guide. In the sixties and seventies when you got married or started setting up a kitchen you got Corning Ware, it's as simple as that.Courtesy of Cathy's Antiques and Collectibles and TIAS.Courtesy of Grandma's Basement and TIAS.Since Corning Ware is just about indestructible, it's still plentiful, but prices are rising as folks are starting to look at it with a collector's eye. "That's why eBay is tricky. Authentic sales are usually uneven numbers due to multiple bidders. But if it says 'best offer accepted,' you'll never know what the best offer is. If the listing doesn't show that there were any bidders at all, that's another red flag."If someone's asking for that number and they take the best offer, you'll never actually know what the offer is," he said. That design only lasted thirty years, no wonder we all know it!Grated Cheese Dispenser - Not a Corning Ware product!Blue Cornflower Filter Drip CoffeemakerCorning Ware Avocado Medallion Electromatic PercolatorCorning Ware has been a staple in the American kitchen since the late 1950s. And when you think about Corning Ware, the Blue Cornflower design is what typically comes to mind. Vintage Corningware Patterns. If you see a number like $10,000 with 22 bidders it's most likely real. People come in and want to sell their items for the inflated prices they found online, only to discover that they're actually worth much less."I'm pretty sure if you look into it it's all manipulated numbers," he said. "Everyone went and bought the items trending on eBay, people think they're making investments on things, but it's actually somebody who started a trend that's not actually real.""In this day and age, where a lot of the collectible market is down, CorningWare retails for $100, $150, and that's on a really good day," he said.
But CorningWare from the 1970s isn't actually worth that much — it'll fetch $100 to $150 on a good day.
“I definitely would not pay over $50 to $100 for different items,” Hardy said. Although Corningware is still in production, the term "vintage Corningware" refers to items that were made prior to 1999.