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<p>[QUOTE="vintagerobin, post: 406258, member: 486"]I buy boxlots at auction and end up with lots of stuff that isn't worth selling online. One of my methods for getting rid of all this crapola was to take it to a big weekly auction and set it out in boxes. Buyers would go through and make piles to bid on and I made decent money on stuff that I couldn't sell otherwise. </p><p><br /></p><p>But the auction house decided that there would be no more piles and now large lots sell for practically nothing. So I lost that option. </p><p><br /></p><p>To make up for that, I now do the occasional flea market and sell everything for a dollar. I don't need to price anything, or sort stuff out, I just put out the boxes and let people root through them and bring me piles of stuff to buy. It means one very early morning occasionally, but I get as much as I did at the auction. </p><p><br /></p><p>I had one scheduled last weekend but the hurricane made them cancel it, just in case. And I now have a whole Summer's worth of crap I need to sell because I don't do well in heat and didn't do any flea markets this Summer. It's rescheduled for next weekend but I fell like I'm drowning. I have so much stuff I need to get rid of! My house looks like one of those hoarding shows. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="vintagerobin, post: 406258, member: 486"]I buy boxlots at auction and end up with lots of stuff that isn't worth selling online. One of my methods for getting rid of all this crapola was to take it to a big weekly auction and set it out in boxes. Buyers would go through and make piles to bid on and I made decent money on stuff that I couldn't sell otherwise. But the auction house decided that there would be no more piles and now large lots sell for practically nothing. So I lost that option. To make up for that, I now do the occasional flea market and sell everything for a dollar. I don't need to price anything, or sort stuff out, I just put out the boxes and let people root through them and bring me piles of stuff to buy. It means one very early morning occasionally, but I get as much as I did at the auction. I had one scheduled last weekend but the hurricane made them cancel it, just in case. And I now have a whole Summer's worth of crap I need to sell because I don't do well in heat and didn't do any flea markets this Summer. It's rescheduled for next weekend but I fell like I'm drowning. I have so much stuff I need to get rid of! My house looks like one of those hoarding shows. :eek:[/QUOTE]
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