posted on November 17, 2005 07:12:00 PM new
I don't begrudge you any money from FEMA, Bear..
The only question is how did you get them to pay for the purchase of a generator when you told me you already had one before the hurricane..LOL
Never mind...I'm just teasing ya.. you didn't have insurance, that's why they allowed your claim...if you'd been insured they'd have told you the same thing as they did us...your insurance should cover your losses..
We're okay.. it will take a while to get our repairs and building done.. but we were luckier than most..
posted on November 17, 2005 07:23:13 PM new
Dblf,
I just sold a couple of belt buckles on Ebay and they were nice ones. One sold for $16 with 4 bids and the other sold for $8.50 with 2 bids, kinda disappointed me, allthough one came out of the trash on one of my dumpster diving forays so i can't complain too much. I hope yours do better.
posted on November 17, 2005 07:53:34 PM new
Hi pi, yes, that is about the range I have been watching them at. If even only one or two sell at 8.00 I will have recouped my investment and made a profit so I am not worried. I have a series called the Great Amercian Belt Buckle heritage series (or some such - cant remember off hand) but it comes on this plaque and my only doubts are whether to sellit as a set or sell them seperatly. Cowboy boots and gear made a big comeback this fall. Perhaps I will get so stymied about it and not sell them at all!! Or maybe I will throw them all on there for 99 cents and shoot sh* to the wind and let the bidders have a ball - all depends on how I feel at the moment!
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[ edited by dblfugger9 on Nov 17, 2005 07:56 PM ]
posted on November 17, 2005 08:11:54 PM new
Pi, do you really do dumpster-diving? I was thinking about that not to long ago after I saw that report on germs on the tv. I was thinking to myself I dont know if I will buy things from the flea market anymore as I think alot of the dealers get stuff from dumpsters and what-not. Even thrift stores are starting to creep me out lately. I brought something home from one and there were spiders in the box. I dont think I am going to do this much longer.
posted on November 17, 2005 08:19:49 PM newAnd I guess you've never heard of French Canadian?
It took you a couple of months to realize that.
Yes most of the people in Canada speak either French or English. If you remember correctly it was you who said they speak CANADIAN.
"PRESS 1 FOR CANADIAN"
CANADIAN IS NOT A LANGUAGE, STUPID.
Don't you remember the list of languages around the world. CANADIAN is not on that list as a language. How soon you forget.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on November 17, 2005 08:30:04 PM new
oh brilliant antiquer big-peepa, go tell ebay about how .99 cent er's are a waste of time. And I suppose you find the best brightest and most wonderful of antiques and collectibles in a museum right? talk about a con-phoney! I bet your ads really lay it on thick too. this came out of the metropolitan museum of art where its been stored for 200 years! More like aunt suzie's attic or a restored piece of burned out rotted something from a salvage sale.
[ edited by dblfugger9 on Nov 17, 2005 08:53 PM ]
posted on November 17, 2005 08:36:42 PM new
Heck yeah i do dumpster diving but you gotta be careful with it. I only dive in, what i would call clean dumpsters, even though they all are dirty to some extent but some are cleaner than others. I won't dive in one behind a restaurant, grocery store or convienence store etc. but some like behind Target, Walmart, Sears or other department stores or small retailers i do.
The stuff that i find, i clean it up before listing it and i allways carry a bottle of hand sanitiser with me when i go dumpster diving to clean my hands with.
My very first Ebay sale came out of a dumpster. It was a pair of old fire helmets and they sold for, i can't remember, i think $260 and i was happy with that.
You can find all kinds of packing material also like styrofoam peanuts, bubble wrap etc.
I also carry an old broomstick pole that has a kook on one end and a loop of rope on the other so i don't really have to get inside the dumpster. Try it you might like it.
posted on November 17, 2005 08:48:03 PM new
Not too bad a picture with just a Poloroid camera and then uploaded to my PC with a scanner, wouldn't you say and that was in 1999 too?
posted on November 17, 2005 08:56:06 PM new
Take your Hubby with you Dblf, it's something you can do together then. He can hold you up by your ankles and move you around upside down inside the dumpster and then you won't miss anything that way.
posted on November 17, 2005 09:12:35 PM new
defogger, right Ebay loves you LOL
You sweet cakes will never know what I sell and for how much.
.99 cent sales. All this from somebody that waives the CONSERVATIVE CAPITALIST BANNER.LOL LOLs
Seriously its not the .99 cent sales I find funny. Its the CON-SERVATIVE CAPITALIST FLAG WAVING from you I find funny. WHILE SELLING ITEMS FROM THE THRIFT STORE. LOL LOLs
defogger said "Or maybe I will throw them all on there for 99 cents and shoot sh* to the wind and let the bidders have a ball - all depends on how I feel at the moment! LOL LOLs YES!!!
posted on November 17, 2005 09:22:40 PM new
bigpeepa, you dont know a damn* thing about me, my values, my outlooks or my decisions for ebay selling. Why dont you show me where I wave a conservative capitalist banner? God you are so blinded by your own rage, you dont even know what I post here.
Go take a sleeping pill and go to bed already. You obviously dont sleep too well on your own. I'd rather sell three small things for eight dollars, than none zero zip out of the 60 - 500 dollar listings put up by the likes of such "democrat - I care about everybody, except myself" I am a big peepa antiquer azzhole like you.
oh and dennis-de-minus in pa, we all know what you sell, sweet cakes, - just nobody gives a ratz azz.
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[ edited by dblfugger9 on Nov 17, 2005 09:29 PM ]
posted on November 18, 2005 03:46:42 AM new
99 cents can be lucrative as JayandMarie have demonstrated on Ebay.But you have to sell a ton of stuff to make any money and also deal with the idiot "bottom feeders".
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[ edited by classicrock000 on Nov 18, 2005 03:54 AM ]
posted on November 18, 2005 06:03:46 AM new
This is true classic. You will work harder at it. Unless you do auto relists, etc.,but imo, its the cumulative amount that matters at the end of the month, not each per item sale.
You ever go to the grocery store and think youre buying all inexpensive stuff? 1.99 on this, 3.99 on that, 5.99 on this - by the time they ring up your cart, you've spent 75 dollars or better, and all the while youre thinking oh its only 1.99 or whatever.
I've seen some sellers with pages and pages of listings, and they've got one bid on their lowest priced item. I dont know how they survive the slow sales periods. To me, it looks like their listing fees have to be taking a big chunk out of what they do sell.
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[ edited by dblfugger9 on Nov 18, 2005 06:04 AM ]
posted on November 18, 2005 10:35:41 AM new
defogger,
Even the I.R.S. won't recognize a non-profit business for very long.
A BIG CON-SERVATIVE CAPITALIST like you = Flea Markets,dumpsters,thrift stores? LOL
Then defogger says,Go take a sleeping pill and go to bed already. You obviously dont sleep too well on your own. I'd rather sell three small things for eight dollars, than none zero zip out of the 60 - 500 dollar listings put up by the likes of such "democrat - I care about everybody, except myself" I am a big peepa antiquer azzhole like you.
Thanks defogger, you ended my day last night with a laugh and started this day with a laugh again. Keep up your good work.
posted on November 18, 2005 10:57:49 AM new Even the I.R.S. won't recognize a non-profit business for very long.
What does that have to do with me? Or, for that matter, with this thread?
You are such an bumble-head!! - Has anybody ever taught you any style? You jump right in on some posts between Pi and me to get your rage out about conservatives?? wth is that?
There's a place in the world for the angry old man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl, He's always at home with his back to the wall. And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost, And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross-And he likes to be known as the angry old man. Give a moment or two to the angry old man, with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand. He's been stabbed in the back, he's been misunderstood, it's a comfort to know his intentions are good. And he sits in a room with a lock on the door, With his maps and his medals laid out on the floor..And he likes to be known as the angry old man. And there's always a place for the angry old man, With his fist in the air and his ead in the sand. And he's never been able to learn from mistakes, So he can't understand why his heart always breaks. But his honor is pure and his courage as well, And he's fair and he's true and he's boring as hell-And he'll go to the grave as an angry old man.
posted on November 18, 2005 01:31:54 PM new
defogger,
Want-to-be sellers like you always talk big but produce small.
One of the numbers below are my gross sales for the first 17 days of November on Ebay only. Like I said you will never know what or how much I sell. Take you pick
WANT-TO-BE.
posted on November 18, 2005 02:10:37 PM new
Hey peepa, it's called a wannabe, not a "WANT TO BE" sheesh peepa, unpucker your butt once in awhile and look at what you're posting sometimes, will ya?
posted on November 21, 2005 04:03:16 PM newIt took you a couple of months to realize that.
You're such an easy target LD. Its only taken you months to realize what I've known for years.
DBL. found several older llama pistols this weekend, none of which had the same logo as yours.
Hope your auctions with them are going well.
Maggie, I told the inspector I had purchased the generator "just in case" of a power outage during Rita.
He told me it didn't matter. If I used it during the Rita caused outage, I was eligable for a refund.
I gave my liberal neighbors son a book for his birthday. He went crazy trying to find where to put the batteries.
[ edited by Bear1949 on Nov 21, 2005 04:07 PM ]
posted on November 21, 2005 04:11:51 PM new
hmmmp, bear. thanks for looking for me!!! I dont know if I will list it at all now. It doesnt seem to have much collector value if thats not it, ya know? Maybe that guy didnt know what the h3ll he was talking about. That will really be a 99 cent deal if I'm in the mood to list it. Lucky if I make my three dollars on the shipping if its not a gun collectable!! yippie!! LOL.
posted on November 21, 2005 05:07:47 PM newYou're such an easy target LD. Its only taken you months to realize what I've known for years.
Yeah it took me a while to figure out how dumb you really are, but you already knew that from your childhood.
So how many years did you believe the people of Canada spoke Canadian?
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
