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Here's one for you Sandy D
 

$4 Op Shop Vase Makes $75,000 At Auction

Never give up on the garage sales or op shops!

Awesome!!

I do not know vintage Asian very well and would have passed on this myself but good for this person.

Love to see these stories.

Like the man who bought the 2.99 oil painting in Ohio at a thrift store to only find he sold it at a flea market for 25.00 and the buyer runs it through Sothebys and it sold for 225k.

Thanks for the share.

Same here, I'm not a "nick nack" specialist. :)

Wow now that's a great find unbelievable, I usually go to neighborhood markets each weekend and stop at local yard sales, 2 weeks ago I found a gold bracelet very old and dirty looked like it would fit a young child , I polished up and it ended up being 18k gold and I got $340 cash for it. This was one of the best finds I ever made , felt like I hit the lotto, couldn't imagine finding something worth $70,000

Oh yea thinking it was ⊗⊗⊗⊗ the bracelet was sold to me for $5 and happened to be real

I hit the community yard sales and 3-4 auctions a week along with several online auction houses.

I am picky what I buy but do not pass on large groups of items for cheap feedback builders and never pass on buying collections, estates etc.

The last house we bought the entire contents was the biggest winner for us. Lots of hidden gems inside.

The coin collection hidden in the basement cellar area was almost enough to pay for half of the entire purchase itself.

Keep your eyes open and always make sure you do not miss anything that makes you take a second look.

HeeHee. I like nick nacks.

I would give something like that a 2nd look.

Might not make Sothebys but would be great for Etsy

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Wow, amazing profit margins there.

Dust catcher.

Hard to maintain and keep beautiful


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That kind of 'saddened' my morning a bit hah

Why? Someone got lucky.

It was his turn.

Wheel of fortune goes around....

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Some people never land on the "big money" spin.

I love when people shout "big money, come on big money" on The wheel of fortune game show.

yotano nailed it - wheel of fortune goes around...some people land on bankrupt or lose a turn ...frequently :P :rip:

I love hitting the large flea markets.

There is always a gem hiding somewhere.

You just have to find it.

Oh man(woman), now with the summer time and 110F outside here in vegas the flea markets here are going to be empty. There's the "outdoor swapmeet" and opens every weekend so with the weather so hot, most people are going to be inside. Perfect time to stroll around and shop. Last year I made a killing on computer parts during the peek summer hotness.

Maybe you should think of coming this way, I think its about 24 acres of fleamarket. I'm sure you will make a killing here.

I watch a youtube video of a guy who is outside of Vegas and does these swap meets.

Peak summer flea markets here are also dead with no customers but vendors are required to be here if they want to keep their same spots.

Good buying time during this period.

I went to Canton Tx flea market many years ago. HUGE!!

Check out one of my fav markets.


Webster Flea Market/ Westside Website Flea Market.

https://www.google.com/search?q=webs...px%3B500%3B320

Can you post the link of that video of the guy in vegas if you know it.

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I mentioned Wheel of Fortune in the post before yotano. He expanded on my comment.
This is simply life
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sorry, i guess i pulled a rsot.

There is treatment

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24 acres wow

You would have fun time scratching


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Scratching through the cash :FF:

LOL


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That is big but we have 5 much larger then that here in Florida.

Would love to go to that one.

Rsot, Springfield Ohio has an extravaganza flea market twice a year with 3000 dealers setting up. Used to be larger. Back in the 70-80s-90s it had close to 5000 dealers in the fall easily. You had to pay extra to get in early which we always did.

Its either cash or bed bugs.
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Cr*p, there is the montior sprayed

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ewww nasty.

Exactly why I do not any furniture with any cloth.

If I buy an estate, storage locker etc I never take this stuff with me and have a guy who will come and pay me decent for all of these things.

Dont buy furniture with cloth unless you know understand the circumstances.

So true - avoid those infestations.

At the "rsot" comment.... :mad2:

I have bought storage lockers with several pieces of furniture and other cloth items and I always have my buyer come and get those items.

Now for my trick, I let off bombs in any storage unit I buy for a day because I dont want other peoples nasty habits in my van.

Another hint for those who got to auctions, yard sales, estate or tag sales.

NEVER TAKE HOME A CARDBOARD BOX.

Always take totes, paper and or bubble wrap with you to pack your items in.

I never re used anyones paper or boxes ever.

Here's another one for you Sandy D
 

$165 TV stand used to store booze actually a $10.4m Japanese antique | News.com.au

There's still out there!

Wow!!

10 char

Magnificent creation.

Best £100 pounds that family ever spent. Likely there will be more pieces around in the UK too.

Off to a great Museum too.

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In the meantime, I'm still searching ...

@LilyPily

First year I was in OZ, we drove along the Murray River thro' The Riverina and into Ballarat & Bendigo. Found heaps of antiques in all sorts of places.

Stuff is out there.

Keep looking
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Hit and miss but very nice hit on the box...too bad it is kind of stolen property :FF:

There is money laying around every single town in the USA.

Outside of the USA I am sure in the UK there are tons of these type things in people homes, stores etc.

Just have to be out and about looking and researching.

Stopped at a thrift store yesterday and found a new in bag 12 person camping tent by a well know maker.

Tag read-- used tent 14.99

Stopped by storage shed to drop off all my finds from yesterday and decided to open the bag even further to see if there are any holes etc.

I look briefly at it at the store and did not open it completely so I need to know.

This is not a used tent, this is new and has never been used at all.

This tent sells on ebay for 250-300 range new in the box which I dont have but still have the carrying bag and should get 200-250 easily.

Sometimes you have to look for things out of your niche to see the value in things.

When it comes to making money there's always hard work, research and good opportunity involved behind the financial reward.

Thrill of the chase

According to my Mom I am a bower bird (collect goodies)

Always looking,finding stuff then waiting to off load.

Then start again
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