micmic66
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posted on April 25, 2004 06:36:04 AM new
Sorry, I just cant help it. I went to a garage sale yesterday only to hear the host of the sale telling about the people in his front yard with FLASHLIGHTS at 11pm the night before looking under the sheets on his tables set up for the next morning. Are you freaking kidding me??? I wish one of these slobs would nose around my property the night before a sale of mine. They would have thier choice: 110lb Rotweiler or Ithaca 12 guage pressed n the temple area. Is there any of these people left with even a shread of class or respect? Why do they have to tilt the playing field so badly that you cant even expect a garage sale add in the newspaper to read true?
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classicrock000
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posted on April 25, 2004 06:44:10 AM new
<--will take the 110lb rotweiler
how do you know they were antique dealers?
could be ebay power sellers
[ edited by classicrock000 on Apr 25, 2004 06:45 AM ]
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stopwhining
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posted on April 25, 2004 07:13:54 AM new
i will take this with a grain of salt.it could be GECC repo man.
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aintrichyet
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posted on April 25, 2004 07:16:40 AM new
antique dealers and powersellers that go into a front yard with flashlights at 11pm the night before looking under the sheets on tables set up for the next morning sale are dirty losers.
but those that don't, aren't.
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micmic66
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posted on April 25, 2004 07:22:05 AM new
How do I know the were dealers???
The host of the sale said they were and he sold $96 worth of items that eve....he is as much at fault as they are
If they are not losers what the hell are they? THEY ARE IN FRONT YARD WITH FLASHLIGHTS AT MIDNIGHT!!!!!! CAN YOU READ???
You wont sway me on this one. Go to 45 garage sales and spend $6 and you would be pissed off also...THERE IS NOTHING LEFT FOR ANYONE ELSE!
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aintrichyet
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posted on April 25, 2004 07:40:16 AM new
yes, i agree those are losers ... but antique dealers that DON'T operate like that aren't losers.
i'm an antique dealer, and i'd never do that ... i just stand patiently with my coffee cup, not crossing the line, until a sale is ready to open in the morning. there are SOME dirty loser antique dealers around my town, but i'm not one of 'em.
i just meant you were generalizing in your statement, because that behavior does not pertain to all antique dealers.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on April 25, 2004 08:01:25 AM new
Good grief. If they'd tried that at my house, I would have called the police.
There's no evidence these obnoxious tactics even work. All I have to do is remember the couple of guys around here who are always barging in early or pulling out boxes that are clearly not on offer. Or charging straight into garages with KEEP OUT signs on them. One of 'em has his own garage sales 6 times a year where he tries to sell all the junk he's scooped. No one buys. He has terrible taste.
There is that all-too-human tendency to believe the guy leaving the sale with a carload-full just got all the good stuff for 10 cents a piece. But I think that doesn't happen as often as we think it does.
At any rate, we've said it before: The game has changed. Time to change buying strategy.
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bizzycrocheting
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posted on April 25, 2004 08:18:56 AM new
Fluffy had a really good idea not to long ago. It would be something that I would do if I shopped the garage sales and estate sales and ran into the problem that you're running into. And I'd like to expand on her idea a little bit. I would go into the retirement communities and ask the elderly owners if they would like some help in cleaning up their garages and attics free of charge. If they were going to trash some stuff, I would ask if I could keep it. As I would be cleaning up, I would also make some offers on particular items that I might like purchase (it can't hurt). I wouldn't advertise this in the newspapers as everyone would jump on the bandwagon. Also, check the listings in the newspapers for houses just bought and/or sold. Chances are good that they haven't had a moving sale yet and you may be able to get a jump on things. There are some other great ideas out there that can give you a little edge on the competition. Just think about when people are moving, the elderly and the like and I bet you can come up with even more ideas.
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stopwhining
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posted on April 25, 2004 08:37:21 AM new
yeah,shove them aside and rob them blind.
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capolady
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posted on April 25, 2004 09:13:19 AM new
I still like the idea of the rottie and the 12 guage. Mine would be an 80 lb retriever who dislikes trespassers and a 38 special.
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micmic66
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posted on April 25, 2004 09:14:52 AM new
capolady!!
I am glad someone agrees with me!
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stopwhining
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posted on April 25, 2004 09:15:03 AM new
BTW,i dont go to garage sales,by the time i get there,all the good stuff and slightly good stuff are always almost gone.
i dont call other people losers just because they are smarter ,quicker and dirtier than i am.
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micmic66
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posted on April 25, 2004 09:32:38 AM new
I do call someone a loser when they are n a front yard with a flashlight in the middle of the night without an invatation.....
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micmic66
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posted on April 25, 2004 09:42:39 AM new
OK, dirty losers is a bit much but listen to this......A friend of mine works in our local classified dept. One of his co-workers is buddies with a local dealer. When you call our circ dept to place a garage sale add, they all go in Thursday and Friday's newpapers. This particular employee (friend of dealer) is calling the dealer and disclosing the addresses of the homes having sales before you can read them in the &$^#@! paper!! How underhanded can you be??
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paloma91
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posted on April 25, 2004 09:44:19 AM new
That happened last year to me. I had a Sat Sun garage sale. Saturday night around 11pm I found two people going through the stuff RIGHT OUTSIDE MY FRONT DOOR The boxes were on the tables all ready for the next day's sale. I was totally shocked. all I could think of saying was: "Can I help you?" The next day while unpacking the boxes for the day's sala, I realized that some of the smaller more expensive items I was hoping to sell on sunday were gone. A couple of items I found in the house to sell at the end of sat's sale.
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rustygumbo
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posted on April 25, 2004 11:21:18 AM new
I'm a vintage/mid-century modern dealer.
I wouldn't do something like that, perhaps because I have a life outside of being a dealer, but I would like to make a few points here.
1) Who in their right mind would put out valuable antiques the night before in the open so that people could rummage through them? This seller should be happy that everything wasn't stolen or damaged for being so stupid.
2) Dealers who do that are simply beating the system while trying to make a living. I don't condone it, but I understand their reasoning. Think along the lines of those pioneers who claimed Oklahoma before it was claimable. Oklahoma went as far as taking pride in their nickname by calling University of Oklahoma the Sooners. If the US government would have stopped them, just like this seller then there wouldn't be a problem. Lesson learned. However, the individual who sold items to the dealers before the sale shouldn't have anything to complain about. A deal is a deal is a deal. It takes two to tango, and it seems as though money can buy happiness, but you can still complain about it.
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sanmar
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posted on April 25, 2004 11:33:41 AM new
None of the antique dealers I know ever go to garage sales. Estate Sales, yes, but not the run of the mill garage/yard sales. There was an interesting article on local TV about the "midnight shopping" in the alley behind Goodwill Store. Just a block away from the store is an area called "Little Juarez" & that is where the "midnight shoppers" come from. Sounds like the same types.
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sparkz
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posted on April 25, 2004 11:58:47 AM new
Micmic66...You're not alone. I also have a 110 lb Rottweiler and a 12 guage. He turned 1 year old on April 1. The next day, he ran off his first door to door salesman. I barbequed a 1 1/2 lb chuck steak for his dinner that night.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on April 25, 2004 12:57:26 PM new
calling the dealer and disclosing the addresses of the homes having sales before you can read them in the &$^#@! paper!!
Which is why I don't put my address in the paper when I have a garage sale.
Learned that from a couple of savvy estate disposal folks.
Instead of an address, use "Follow the signs from Ven St and Dio Ave".
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davebraun
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posted on April 25, 2004 01:18:27 PM new
Or another technique is between 2 cross streets without giving the actual street number.
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geppeta
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posted on April 25, 2004 04:59:36 PM new
One of the best ads for a yard sale I ever saw read: "Early Birds Pay Double." I absolutely cracked up and figure, that oughta work! I surely wasn't the first one there!
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Japerton
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posted on April 25, 2004 05:28:03 PM new
[quote]yeah,shove them aside and rob them blind.[/quote]
LMAO!!
Bizzycrocheting...please put yourself in their shoes.
I went estate saling the last two weekends...man it's a different world apres ebay!
One Proprietress barked at the top of her lungs amidst her answer (when asked by my nascent estate saler mom - remember, pan-asian shopping tour, full on retail) if this was family run or she was helping with an estate: "Found a $3000 bag of marbles that I am going to resell, too!"
Oh well. If you are surviving on estate and garage sales, no wonder peops are ultra aggressive!
J
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