micmic66
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posted on October 23, 2004 04:30:10 PM new
Mine was a late 1980's Wilson A2000 Baseball glove. Paid $5, got got $332. Flea market, Dickson City PA...
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glassgrl
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posted on October 23, 2004 05:01:03 PM new
Geez Louise!
I did get an interesting pair of lamps today - Acrylic...signed Van Teal. That could be an interesting auction.
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max40
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posted on October 23, 2004 07:15:40 PM new
Head vase--$18.00 + tax at a local antique store. Ebayed it for a little less that $1,000.00.
But other than that, this summer was way below normal for purchases. Sales too.
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micmic66
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posted on October 23, 2004 07:17:34 PM new
Max, thats a hell of a hit, especially from a dealer....
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dadofstickboy
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posted on October 23, 2004 07:22:33 PM new
My Best Find this summer!
I went to a auto parts store to get an oil filter for my car.
And found a $100.00 bill on the floor!
Remember:
Nov.2nd's The Day To Flush The Johns!
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Libra63
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posted on October 23, 2004 07:50:03 PM new
Did we have summer yet?  Oh, I forgot the two good days we had in August.
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sparkz
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posted on October 23, 2004 07:58:54 PM new
Libra,
Just the reverse here. I was barbecueing in the back yard in my shorts and t-shirt in 90+ degree weather one week, and bundled up inside the next waiting out a storm that dumped 4 feet of snow in the Mountains 30 miles east of us. It skipped Autumn altogether this year. As far as my best find, I have several possibilities, but I won't start listing them till November so I don't know yet which will be the best.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
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ebayvet
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posted on October 24, 2004 01:21:34 AM new
This summer I purchased a CD collection for $200 - A lot of rare and imported stuff. Still selling from it, I expect to profit around 3 or 4 thousand dollars from it. The most expensive CD sold for over $140 all by itself.
Friends don't let Friends say stupid things like Friends don't let friends vote Republican!
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playbackfactor
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posted on October 24, 2004 11:06:07 AM new
ebayvet- Which CD sold for $140.00? That's great. My summer find was an LP from the 60's featuring an interview with Frank Lloyd Wright. I paid $1.00 for it at a thrift shop and got $307.00 for it! Then, I found ANOTHER one!! I wish I had more finds like that...
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rhpepsi
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posted on October 24, 2004 02:43:45 PM new
"Cleaning" out a house in town...owner wanted the "stuff" in the basement taken to the dump...moved a few OLD lounge chairs away from this 6' high cabinet...inside was THREE HOPALONG CASSIDY LUNCH BOXES!!...
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AintRichYet
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posted on October 24, 2004 03:43:18 PM new
awesome finds you guys!!!! ... i keep trying to think about what to post at this thread ... i think my best 'find' for this summer, was the millersburg bullseye and loop pattern vase that max40 ID'ed here for me! ... it sold for almost $300 and I found it at my father-in-law's antique shop estate ... my father-in-law had had a price label on it that said, "fine old vase $40"
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tomwiii
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posted on October 24, 2004 03:52:22 PM new
MY bestest summer FIND?
This web-site (of course):
http://tinyurl.com/5d3p4
[ edited by tomwiii on Oct 24, 2004 03:52 PM ]
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toasted36
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posted on October 24, 2004 03:53:46 PM new
I had a few small to some of you guys and gals but outstanding for me sells.My most shocked sell was for that baby blue chiffon beaded dress ...That i asked if I should even bother listing it cause of the small hole and rip on the seam. <thud> I got 70.00
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sthoemke
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posted on October 24, 2004 04:55:08 PM new
I found a couple of bottles. Really good bottles. It took hours of digging, and over an hour more to chip away through cement-like clay to free them from their 100-year old resting place. A similar one sold for around $250 on eBay over a year ago.
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OhMsLucy
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posted on October 24, 2004 05:02:49 PM new
My best summer find was the Gouda vase I asked about on here. Whether it was Art Deco, etc.
It sold for over $100. Cost me $1.00.
Second best was the Heisey syrup jug. It only sold for a little bit over $40 but since it cost me a whole quarter I figure it qualifies as a find.
Lucy
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ltray
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posted on October 24, 2004 05:15:21 PM new
Congrats Steve, I had a friend who was a bottle collector. I started digging with him. Bottle collecting is contagious. Too fun to find treasures in the trash!
Did you know that certain sites are off limits due to (literally) contagious disease?? We have a town here in the Panhandle that was wiped out in the late 1800's by smallpox. If you are caught diggin in the old city dump, you can be fined and jailed due to the possibility of reactivating the virus!
As for the bottle collecting BF, I decided to leave him in the dumps <g>.
Picked up my best deal last year from a trash pile. Had gone to a yard sale that was the pits, but as I drove away I saw their neighbor cleaning out her garage. She dumped a wooden box on the curb. I thought it would come in handy in my garage, so I picked it up. It turned out to be a Captain Morgan's Rum display box. I ebayed it for $55. Yipee!
There is a downside though... I've had such good luck selling "trash" that now my MIL brings me stuff she finds on her daily walk. So far it has been TRASH but who knows , maybe she'll surprise me one day.
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epoweryourlife
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posted on October 24, 2004 05:16:43 PM new
My 5.00 Ferragamo pumps that are now at 51.00 and rising. My most FUN, garage saling every Friday with my mother and youngest daughter. My other was 15 Furbies at a garage sale.
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ltray
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posted on October 24, 2004 05:19:54 PM new
MSLucy, you have me looking at the bottom every ugly vase I see. That Gouda was a great find and I know that somewhere, sometime, I have had one that I probably sold for a $ or2.
My biggest mistake... Early on, when I had my shop, I bought a rookwood piece but did not know what it was. Sold it for $25. I had a very loyal customer after that. The vase was worth about $1K. I soon learned a lot about pottery.
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MAH645
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posted on October 25, 2004 06:58:41 AM new
A shady Palm Tree and a good book.
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alldings
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posted on October 25, 2004 07:14:23 AM new
I dug some books out of the free bin at the landfill. ABE says one of them is worth around 300 bucks, wonder if someone will pay that much for it? Will find out soon!!
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micmic66
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posted on October 25, 2004 08:31:51 AM new
I love the fact that none of us have "dumpster shame" lol!!!
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toasted36
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posted on October 25, 2004 08:37:22 AM new
Rofl micmic66 ! None here !!
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Kevinatgrannys
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posted on October 25, 2004 08:46:13 AM new
My best find was upstairs in my store. I've been cleaning out my old office/storage room and found a 1 gallon jar of marbles that I had bought at auction several years ago. The auction ticket said that I paid $1 for it and I've been selling them in groups of 100+ for at least $5 each. (I think that I have sold around 10 groups so far.) In the bottom of the jar were several marbles all wrapped together in plastic wrap, not visible from the outside, that I haven't listed yet. The only ones that I recognize in this group are a couple of Bumble Bees. It will be interesting to see what they bring when I am tired of looking at them.
Kevin
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ladyjewels2000
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posted on October 25, 2004 08:54:13 AM new
A couple of years ago I found a Bird Chair & Ottoman in a thrift store for $35. I listed it and sold it for $500 but the guy had 16 negatives out of 20 FB's so I wouldn't take his paypal and he never sent the promised money order. I relisted it in September of this year and got $1150.00 for it. Timing is everything!!!
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Roadsmith
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posted on October 25, 2004 09:36:30 AM new
Really had no good summer finds. Yard sales here are drying up, and the thrift shop stuff is going mostly to the dealers who help there.
But yesterday! I arrived 5 hours late to a little garage sale. Poked around, saw essentially nothing but was looking at some books and pamphlets. Owner said they were all free, so I chose 7 or 8 and then, feeling guilty, bought a couple dollars' worth of refrigerator magnets and a shelf I can use. The books and pamphlets should sell fairly well on Ebay--and they were free! (Still out in my car--too lazy to bring them in yesterday, LOL.)
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sthoemke
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posted on October 30, 2004 12:31:04 PM new
I found 3 dollar bills last night
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classicrock000
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posted on October 30, 2004 03:42:32 PM new
dont spend it all in one place
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max40
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posted on October 30, 2004 03:53:52 PM new
Be sure and report in to IRS next April.
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bob9585
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posted on November 1, 2004 04:49:28 PM new
My garage floor....
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