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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lucille.b, post: 570546, member: 51&quot;]I did wind up going back, and the vase was still there, but noticed some damage, so passed.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was the oddest sale. Absolutely fantastic older home in a great part of town, Koi pond in the back, kitchen to die for, floor to ceiling glass on one side and tons of beautiful space.&nbsp; The sale was for a locally well known person, apparently she had a weakness for collecting and probably got gifts for her collections on travels. Mostly the collections were newer, like 1980s or later.&nbsp; But there were a few older items too.&nbsp; Clean and well presented, literally thousands of things.&nbsp; Looking into the living room, antique table to seat 12, covered with glass, vases, etc -- not total junk, but recent.&nbsp; In the corner, floor to ceiling giant curio with hundreds of hedgehogs.&nbsp; Some English, Swedish, but also many just resin.&nbsp; Displays like that.&nbsp; Walls and rooms of other collections, shelving everywhere.&nbsp; Pretty much every square inch had something, but clean and had an order.&nbsp; Part of the home was a full library, thousands of books.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve never seen a sale run like this.&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t relatives, also not a professional company.&nbsp; Must have been acquaintances that knew a bit about sales and as the weeks went on, they got less and less friendly.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first time the sale ran was two months ago.&nbsp; They wound up running the sale for FIVE 3-day weekends 10-5pm, taking a week pause here and there, only to resume the following weekend.&nbsp; There wasn&#039;t <i>that </i>much stuff, it was just that they had it priced too high and were not flexible on prices (weekend after weekend zero discounts) AND they were holding back inventory for some reason.&nbsp; So every time you went there were items &quot;they hadn&#039;t priced yet&quot; &quot;hadn&#039;t gotten to yet&quot;.&nbsp; I was pretty desperate for sales, being February,&nbsp; so I kept going back on the first weekend day, hoping that they finally got to this or that.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the 5th weekend every dealer in town was burned out, so there were only 3 people waiting in line at opening, and that is the weekend they opened up 6 new rooms!&nbsp; So did wind up getting a few things.</p><p><br /></p><p>On what was originally advertised as the final weekend, I asked whether a certain higher priced item might be discounted and got read the riot act about how someone was coming in to &quot;buy everything that was left&quot;, so they weren&#039;t discounting anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well apparently that &quot;buy-out&quot; didn&#039;t &quot;pan-out&quot;, because two weeks ago the sale was advertised again, &quot;everything 50-75% off&quot;.&nbsp; That is when I posted here about the Japanese vase.</p><p><br /></p><p>So that final weekend at 50% off there were a few items that must have been freshly unearthed... one was an oversized scrap book with vintage menus for $1, probably 40 vintage menus in there. Might post a question on the forums about that.</p><p><br /></p><p>And just like the sale that kept going and going, there is more to this post.&nbsp; On week 3, a fellow dealer, in town for 35 years, was accused of stealing (can NOT imagine this, nothing small was valued at over $5, it doesn&#039;t even make sense on any level. I&#039;m sure they had it wrong).&nbsp; I had a few items that were in bulk priced boxes that once I got up to the check out they announced, &quot;oh that&#039;s not for sale&quot;.&nbsp; No apology, just briskly grabbed it out of my pile.&nbsp; They even gave me the &quot;evil eye&quot; staring at my trusty fully translucent plastic estate sale tote.&nbsp; The ad said &quot;bring boxes and bags&quot;, I figured a 100% see-through bag was the ticket, but they stared at the bag every time I was walking past the cashier like I was up to something. So strange!</p><p><br /></p><p>On that final 50% off weekend I brought my daughter.&nbsp; I had her buy the menu book thinking if they saw me with it they&#039;d announce it wasn&#039;t for sale or something.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was a sale for the record books. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie96" alt=":wacky:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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