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Reply to ""Shopping Garage Sales and Thrift Stores, Part 2""

Remember, you can always edit later, so grab anything that looks interesting. It's a numbers game. Don't forget this.

This practice of grabbing and looking later has always rubbed me the wrong way. We have a local jewelry buyer who literally grabs "all" of the jewelry and sits off in the corner and sorts through it. He usually puts 98% back. Meanwhile, other people who may have bought some of what he put back are long gone. This isn't very fair to the host of the sale or to other shoppers for that matter.

At the professionally conducted estate sales here, once you put an item in your pile, you own it. If you try and put things back you'll soon have a negative reputation among estate conductors and your fellow dealers.

Watching people beat up garage sale hosts on their prices when the stuff is already plenty cheap grates me as well.

It's informative artice for garage sale ~ thrift store novices but maybe part three should be about garage sale etiquette. It's good to remember the people you buy from as well as your fellow dealers are people too. It's not just about the 900% profit margin.
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