Greetings!
Was out yard sale hunting today when I came across an antique dealer in town who was having a 'huge sale'. More like a huge waste of time. This was one of those sales where, from the street, it looks like you are going to score big! Boxes and boxes of items to sort through AND everything was 50% off the marked price. How can you go wrong?
You can go wrong when you realize after an hour of digging through boxes you are holding two items that you might be able to make $10 total off of after your buying price is covered. In my experience when an antique store is having a sale that sounds too good to be true, it might be. I spent a good 1.5 hours at this sale trying to find that one treasure that would turn a great profit, but left with nothing but wasted time and energy. Be cautious when hitting up events like this ... odds are if the antique dealer is practically giving the stuff away, it's because it's flawed, or because they have determined it's not worth much after they already doing the research on the items.
I'm sure that once in awhile a sale comes along that actually works out great for flippers like us, but this just wasn't one of them. I could've hit up 5 garage sales in the time I spent there and who knows what items I missed out on?
Happy Hunting!
The eBay Freshman
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