Giggle Glass vs GlassPass: Where to Sell Your Functional Glass?

Down all avenues of glass paraphernalia, you find yourself searching for that perfect piece of an artisanal glass companion. You’re hoping to find a vendor that you can rely on, that sells high-quality glass for affordable prices. Trying to choose any one platform to buy or even sell glass can seem overwhelming with the sheer volume of options available to you. To make things a little bit easier, we will be looking at two popular choices of digital platforms. One is a burgeoning community of emerging and long-time glass artists, and the other is a widely renowned marketplace. This blog will compare and contrast the two platforms, their strengths and their drawbacks, and hopefully leave with a better idea of what you would like to use in your glass endeavors.

Giggle Glass is an online marketplace centered around handmade smoking glass, functional glass art, and dazzling heady pieces delivered straight from the artist’s workbench into your hands. Where other digital vendors hold wide selections of pieces of all types from various artists, Giggle Glass has specialized in building and supporting a dedicated community of glass artists to engage and do business with. Giggle Glass makes sure that the independent artist is in the spotlight. So if you yourself are an emerging glass artist, or you’re looking to browse the collected works of independent artists, Giggle Glass is an ideal platform for such artistry.

GlassPass is a massive digital marketplace built around the buying, selling, trading, and raffling of functional glass and related products. The resulting interface of GlassPass is a big appeal to collectors looking for niche pieces or to resell their own. GlassPass connects interested parties to buy, sell, and auction under the protection of a unique digital escrow system – making it an ideal site for those with a large collection looking to sell, or those who wish to grow a collection of their own.

Giggle Glass appeals to buyers seeking functional glass art straight from a glass artist themselves. The network of emerging and independent glass artists who call Giggle Glass home serves both to foster an authentic online market of custom, and attract other interested artists to promote and sell their own work. Since buyers are coming straight to the artist for purchase, prices can be expected to maintain a level of stability that an auction system can’t guarantee. Meanwhile, GlassPass is built for those who love both glass and a good trade. With an ecosystem of collectors constantly buying and selling glass, there is a great chance to stumble upon pieces that are wildly different from one another.

Giggle Glass provides a simple listing interface with no frills and a keen focus on transparency between the artist and the work. There is a standard marketplace purchase flow without the competition of mass resellers, making for a more relaxed browsing and purchasing experience. GlassPass on the other hand, offers a nice variety for purchasing products, with a favoring for urgent moves amidst bidding wars. This requires a little bit of pre-planning on the consumer side to find a ripe deal before it’s gone. For a seller, this helps move inventory at a breakneck pace.

Giggle Glass operates on a fixed payout model rather than a percentage-based structure. While initial wholesale pricing is informed by a percentage of MSRP, the artist’s payout is locked in and will not decrease if retail discounts are applied. This ensures their earnings remain consistent unless a new agreement is formally renegotiated. Once shipment is confirmed through tracking upload, the payout is placed in a processing queue, maintaining a predictable and transparent system that prevents unexpected changes in compensation.

GlassPass can have variable fees that depend on a few factors relating to auctioneering, as well as additional charges for raffles or upgrades. However, there are also faster payouts when items move quickly.

As a buyer on Giggle Glass, you can expect a cleaner browsing of merchandise, with pieces organized between type and artist selections. You can also expect absolute confidence in the authenticity of your piece, with each one coming directly from the artist responsible for making it. GlassPass is no slouch in taking the steps to verify authenticity in what’s being sold on their platform. However, there still lingers the skepticism that comes from purchasing re-sold pieces from second-hand sellers. That being said, the benefit of purchasing from collectors is the chance to score a great deal from a constantly active community of sellers.

As an artist looking for a platform, Giggle Glass offers a marketplace that is welcoming to independent artists looking to build their brand. For an artist who is looking to connect with and cultivate a close following of dedicated fans and appreciators of their work, Giggle Glass promotes their story and their work with equal respect.

GlassPass offers artists a platform to quickly turn over their inventory with exposure to high-volume collectors and competitive auctions. With such an intense and active marketplace, a glass artist looking to clean out a large quantity of older inventory can easily profit from the chances of a high-bid auction.

So, will determining what platform is right for you require some soul searching? Not really, as you can always go back and forth and try each one for yourself to see what you like. That being said, if you’re an aspiring independent artist looking to build your brand and customer base, then Giggle Glass may be more lucrative for long-term involvement. If you’re an artist or collector who is looking to sell fast with a chance to sell high, then GlassPass is right up your alley.

Last things to consider for both platforms include navigating the expense of your most important resource: time. Ask yourself, as a glass artist, where your time is best spent: messaging and building relationships with customers or managing bids for your pieces? Depending on your level on involvement in producing glass art or your aspirations for your brand, both options for your time are important to consider.

At the end of the day, both Giggle Glass and GlassPass offer substantive markets fitted around different niches to buy and sell functional glass pieces. The best choice for yourself will be tailored around your values and goals as an artist, and how you wish to sell your glass. To get started on either platform, create your account and submit a small sample of pieces that you wish to sell. From there you can track the engagement you’re getting in attention and sales, and determine at the bottom line what fits you best.