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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;evelyb30, post: 193330, member: 36&quot;]I line up first thing for a decent estate sale.&nbsp; The people running them here know they&#039;re going to get dealers first thing out and will discount accordingly ... sometimes.&nbsp; There aren&#039;t that many companies around, and after a while you learn how they operate.&nbsp; One doesn&#039;t discount much, but gives religious items away for pennies.&nbsp; Two regular estate runners don&#039;t know vintage jewelry for beans.&nbsp; One of them gave me a small gold cross, very high karat, for practically nothing because it wasn&#039;t hallmarked. </p><p><br /></p><p>But Bluumz is right about estate and tag sales being very different, despite many a tag sale being called an estate sale.&nbsp; And moving sales being called estate sales - I tend to run AWAY from those; they&#039;re generally new tat instead of old tat.&nbsp; As for thrifts and fleas, again totally different.&nbsp; You can sometimes get bargains at the thrift; around here flea markets are generally selling new fleas instead of old pieces.&nbsp; The ones that do have sky high prices.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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