Posted on 01/31/2022 2:35:19 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Yep!
I use to sell on ebay, selling ‘stuff’ that I bought Cheaply from various antique shops and thrift stores
Picked up a Rooster thing one day, not knowing what it was and I assume that the owner either.
Paid $25.00.
Took it home and while looking through one of my antique values books ... Low and behold, there it was, in pictures big as life!
A Rooster cocktail shaker valued at $2,500.00!
It sold for $1,700!
Nice profit of which I had many more like that!
You are assuming, of course, that someone else other than the seller didn’t, and may just be jiving and put on a sticker.
I bought a $100 down filled sleeping bag at Goodwill for $5 once.
I know a guy who bought a framed print by a local artist for $10 and sold it online for $300.
My GF makes regular thrift store trips to scout out resale stuff for one of her family that owns a thrift store biz.
I don’t think anyone twisted anybody’s arm to buy , or sell. The time spent “haunting “, as you call it, is a manner of sweat equity. May not be your type of job, but still serves a purpose in the world. Heck, someone could have just thrown the brass swan in a landfill, for that matter, in cleaning out a dead cousin’s house. (Yes, i did, because to my eyes,itwas junk and not worth my time)
“Time”
Hard to put a
Price tag on that!
Scrap value of brass:
Updated 01/31/2022
Metal Average Price Date Updated
Brass Pipe $1.80/lb Updated 01/31/2022
Brass Radiators $1.64/lb Updated 01/31/2022
Brass Scrap $1.83/lb Updated 01/31/2022
Brass Turnings $1.72/lb Updated 01/31/2022
Start by knowing what the scrap value of the item is.....
The problem is what ?
I was literally thinking 30 minutes ago trying to make money doing the same thing .
The objection is to the lying to get you to come down in price.
My daughter sells a lot of her Goodwill finds on eBay for a hefty profit.
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People seem to make good money doing this.
On YouTube there’s Crazy Lamp Lady, she seems to do well for herself.
No its called free enterprise.
You don’t think something is worth the price, then don’t buy it - especially if it isn’t a necessity like food or fuel.
I don’t see the problem here other than the stupidity of the antiques shop in not removing the prior tag...and the anti-Capitalist attitude of those who filmed this.
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