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<p>[QUOTE="Grateful, post: 2184444, member: 11100"]I recently came into this lamp somewhat haphazardly, and didn't really have the opportunity to inspect it as several individuals at a COVID compliant estate sale were going for it all at once. For the price of $20 is was bagged and handed to me. At home I realized there are some issues with it and wondering your opinions as to whether to pursue repairs, knowing it will never have full value (or may not have much at all), or just turn it over for about what I paid for it (or donate it) and call it done. Money is money, but I'm not going to lose sleep or spend a large sum of $$ on this for a $20 purchase.</p><p><br /></p><p>By all appearances, there have been some repairs/work done previously. I typically thoroughly inspect items whenever possible (probably to the extreme), but this was a necessary total on-the-fly purchase. It was somewhat misrepresented by the sellers, but in their defense there was a somewhat unexpected death and they were dealing with lots of stuff and issues all at once. I value your opinions & thoughts, so please comment if you have one. TIA-hope all is well in your corner of the world.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]253651[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]253652[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]253653[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]253654[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]253655[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]253656[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]253657[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Grateful, post: 2184444, member: 11100"]I recently came into this lamp somewhat haphazardly, and didn't really have the opportunity to inspect it as several individuals at a COVID compliant estate sale were going for it all at once. For the price of $20 is was bagged and handed to me. At home I realized there are some issues with it and wondering your opinions as to whether to pursue repairs, knowing it will never have full value (or may not have much at all), or just turn it over for about what I paid for it (or donate it) and call it done. Money is money, but I'm not going to lose sleep or spend a large sum of $$ on this for a $20 purchase. By all appearances, there have been some repairs/work done previously. I typically thoroughly inspect items whenever possible (probably to the extreme), but this was a necessary total on-the-fly purchase. It was somewhat misrepresented by the sellers, but in their defense there was a somewhat unexpected death and they were dealing with lots of stuff and issues all at once. I value your opinions & thoughts, so please comment if you have one. TIA-hope all is well in your corner of the world. [ATTACH=full]253651[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]253652[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]253653[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]253654[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]253655[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]253656[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]253657[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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