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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;evelyb30, post: 10301578, member: 36&quot;]Amen. Sometimes sentimental value is higher than resale value, often by a lot.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>OTOH estate sale companies have to watch prices and stop tossing anything they don&#039;t understand. I have people asking me for vintage paper napkins, preferably sealed packages.&nbsp; Estate companies here often toss out such things and clean out drawers without looking at what it is. A few companies have left junk in drawers, and the &#039;junk&#039; included envelopes and boxes of leftovers from jewelry-making classes. Sterling.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>More like the plethora of quarter items priced at $100.&nbsp; A constant run of that will make anyone a little testy.&nbsp; Other times, you stand in line for an hour, only to get inside and find out that the estate company removed anything you would have bought before the sale ever started.&nbsp; &quot;Somebody might have stolen it.&quot; YYYARRGGH.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For on-line that&#039;s totally accurate.&nbsp; Those who have a booth can go to 25%, and if they own the building or have low overhead can go a bit higher.&nbsp;&nbsp; Resellers have expenses and if they pay half of retail or even half wholesale they can be going backwards immediately.&nbsp; Unless they want it for their own use, it&#039;s a dead loss.&nbsp; It&#039;s one reason &quot;people are so cheap&quot;.&nbsp; No choice.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I passed up a pretty glass plate today selling at $20. I&#039;d bet on a $40 retail, but if I resold it I&#039;d get $10 on a good day, so hard pass.&nbsp; It was in a store resellers visit often and they made the same calculation since it&#039;s been sitting there for days.&nbsp; It would have to sell for under $5 to move, so it&#039;ll be there for a while.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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