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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joan, post: 853854, member: 5398&quot;]Because I&#039;ve been selling mainly vintage clothing for more than 10 years I don&#039;t have as many regrets as I used to, but a few weeks ago I passed up a vintage men&#039;s Polo corduroy jacket/coat with leather trim and original price tag of $199 still attached. It was in the small back room of a local church thrift store where everything is $1.00.&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t get a cellphone signal to look it up, and thought maybe because it was heavy and would cost a lot to ship, it might not sell for much. I don&#039;t have a lot of storage space, so I try not to buy bulky items unless I&#039;m sure they&#039;ll be well worth the time and trouble it takes to sell them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So I decided to put the jacket back and think about it while I looked at other racks of clothing. It was warm in the store so I didn&#039;t want to carry the jacket around with me, and I was the only one in that room, so wasn&#039;t concerned about someone else picking up the jacket. But then out of no where, a young guy with his mother walks in, the guy goes to the rack of jackets, picks out the Polo and tries it on. Out of the corner of my eye I could tell it fit him perfectly. Then he walks into another room to look in a mirror, and leaves it on when he comes back to look at other things. I waited for a while to see if he would put it back. He took it off but carried it around, so I decided to go out to my car so I could get a cellphone signal and look up the jacket on ebay where I found a used one sold for close to $200.&nbsp; Then I decided to wait in the car until he and his mother left the store to see if they had bought it. They finally came out and the young guy was carrying a large bag, but I thought maybe there was a chance he put it back and bought another jacket, so I went back in and looked on all the racks, but didn&#039;t see the jacket. </p><p><br /></p><p>I left thinking his mother probably didn&#039;t have a lot of money to spend on clothes, but her son will look really classy in that Polo jacket, so I told myself he deserved it more than I did....but at the same time I decided the next time I&#039;m debating about buying a $1 item I&#039;ll at least hang onto it while I&#039;m deciding whether to buy it...no matter how warm it is in the store. And after 10 years of selling vintage clothing you&#039;d think I&#039;d know enough by now that if I&#039;m debating about buying an item and it only costs $1, I should just buy it, and if it turns out to be not worth storing, I can just re-donate it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder if anyone else out there has watched and waited, or followed someone around hoping they&#039;ll put back something you want to buy, or at least get a closer look at.&nbsp; This wasn&#039;t the only time I&#039;ve done that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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