Posted on 01/31/2022 2:35:19 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Works for me.... as long as the seller isn’t dumb enough to leave the sticker on.
The lefties at Newsweak and tic tock don’t understand reality, they didn’t sell it at that price, they put it up for sale at that price.
I guarantee these socialists would think it just dandy if one of them bought something at a garage sale and discovered it had a market value of several hundred dollars. Would they, with their moral superiority, take it back to the person from whom they bought it? Har Har
“Greed” is a two way street. These whiners are first rate hypocrites.
So, I found a violin for $20 at Goodwill. The case looked like it had been worked over by an elementary school kid. The violin itself had a few minor issues but my daughter was a musician and was decorating her room with various instruments so I thought “why not?”. Looking inside at the German inscription, it mentioned a German name followed by “Stradivarius...”
So when I got home, I looked up the name and turns out it was a remake of a Stradivarius by a German craftsman in the late ‘60s and this particular craftsman’s violins were selling for between $2500 and $5000. I took it to a classic instrument guy downtown. He said it would cost about $500 to refurbish and he will put it in his window and take the $500 out of whatever he sells it for.
3 months later, he calls to let me know he sold it and sends me a check for $3500.
My other cool find was a Matchbox Car carrying case with a $10 tag on it. I opened it up and there were four trays loaded with a dozen or so Hot Wheels red lines (late ‘60s), a few Johnny Lightning cars, and the rest were Matchbox cars I played with as a kid. Conservative estimate based on collector guides, about $300 to $400 worth. The red lines were in really nice condition (about $20 to $30 per car but I didn’t entertain any offers) and I was able to clean up the majority of the rest and built a display case for them in my rec room.
The value of an item to an adult is determined by what that consenting adult is willing to pay. If $220 is too much, nobody will buy it.
Amanda’s “Red” underwear is showing.
I don’t see a problem. If somebody wants to buy the thing at much more than the merchant paid, that’s his business. My sister had a friend who knew a buyer of women’s clothing. Once in awhile, she go to New York on a buying trip with her. She’d buy a few things for herself, like a blouse for $25, that would be retailing for $200-$300. You know those $85 toss pillows you see in magazines cost no more than a dollar or two to make. Add in shipping and handling, maybe they cost $5, total.
Absolutely nothing wrong with that except leaving he GW tag on it. An old friend with a good eye for antiques built his prosperous antique store by cruising Goodwills and Salvation Army stores.
Go to a Goodwill near the well-to-do, Country Club side of town. A lot of divorced women will spitefully unload their ex’s $90 Polo shirts, high end coats, golf clubs, you name it...
Years ago I found a vintage vicuna full length coat at YMCA thrift store. I LOVED it and wore it for years in the winter to church, or other “nice” occasions. Then we needed some money and I decided to sell some items. The coat was one. I was thinking $50. Put it on eBay and it sold for $600!!! you never know what you’ll find in a thrift store
Oh no! Something sold for cheap and then re-sold. The scandal! Thankfully this inanity appeared in Newsweek;
As one reads from Wiki: ",,,Revenue declines prompted an August 2010 sale by The Washington Post Company to audio pioneer Sidney Harman—for a purchase price of one dollar and an assumption of the magazine's liabilities."
So soon people forget. Newsweek was a "brass swan" and sold for less than $8.99. Oh the horror! Tick Tock. Tik, tok.
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I agree.
Buy cheap, sell high.
Buyer and seller enter a consesual contractual agreement, beneficial to both.
What's the problem?
Are not items worth exactly what people are willing to pay for them?
Hey, it was worth a shot.
Sloppy work, though, leaving the price tag on.
The comments have a general consensus about this not being a bad thing. I wonder what the consensus would be on the DUmp
What qualifies an item in an antique store as an “antique”????
Feb 25, 2020 — The term antique refers to something 100 years or older, says Rebecca Rau of M.S. Rau Antiques in New Orleans. Furniture, works of art, jewelry...
Yup,
Antiques are not as big as
A Few years back.
I’d say Military types of
Things may be steady
as they still have Uses.
The thrift stores are not the problem.
It’s antique store people who haunt thrift stores and garage sales and try so hard to convince you something is not worth what you are asking just so they can skim a hefty profit off it.
They are worse than used car salesmen IMO.
I disagree. I think it’s called knowing what something’s worth. Goodwill was donated the brass figures, considered them worthless and tagged them at $8.99. The antique shop owner realized they were valuable, bought them at full price, and resold them at a big profit. An employee of ours bought a brass item at a yard sale: $3.00. It was an antique whale oil lamp he later sold at an antiques auction for over $300. All fair and square. Although the shop owner should have removed the previous tag.
I dont see the problem other than the owner not seeing and removing the goodwill tag. If he can get some sucker to buy a plated swan for 2 bones, so what?
I have another opinion. I bought three paintings from a thrift store because I like them. When I got home I looked up the artist and found that I had bought $250-$500 paintings by a known artist for $10-$20. So what is their real worth??? A trained eye could have bought them to resell and priced them legitimately and that would not be “wrong” since they are worth the higher $’s. The “price” is in the eye, knowledge, and negotiations of the buyer and the seller.
No one has an obligation to sell something for less than it is worth just because they recognized and took advantage of a bargain. Brass is worth good money even at the metal recycling right now, apart from the artistic value. And no one would complain if the antique store had bought them as $200 brass swans but had to sell them for $10 because they found out the swans were only brass plated.
So.
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