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<p>[QUOTE="clutteredcloset49, post: 309276, member: 85"]I am assuming you are buying all or most of this for resale. If you go back to the thrift, be sure to look things over carefully. I see things that have damage. Some can be fixed with no problem, others maybe not be so easy to repair and will make it difficult to sell. </p><p><br /></p><p>Like the blue Czech art deco glass bracelet. The glass is chipped pretty badly. As it is 100 pieces for $200 you paid $2.00 a piece. You could put this bracelet out for $10. as is and still make money on it. If it weren't damaged, more like $100 plus.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you have been dealing in jewelry you probably have a repair box with parts to fix things. If not you can get new rhinestones to put in this and sell as a repaired piece.</p><p>This looks like an interesting piece. But it is missing stones. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]102132[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess the point I am trying to make, is buy things that aren't damaged, unless you have the ability to fix them or are going to re-purpose them some how. Or unless they are gold or silver that have melt value.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know it is hard to pass things up that you know are old, and were once beautiful. Sometimes I buy broken things just because I like them and end up keeping them. But is difficult to sell damaged items.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="clutteredcloset49, post: 309276, member: 85"]I am assuming you are buying all or most of this for resale. If you go back to the thrift, be sure to look things over carefully. I see things that have damage. Some can be fixed with no problem, others maybe not be so easy to repair and will make it difficult to sell. Like the blue Czech art deco glass bracelet. The glass is chipped pretty badly. As it is 100 pieces for $200 you paid $2.00 a piece. You could put this bracelet out for $10. as is and still make money on it. If it weren't damaged, more like $100 plus. If you have been dealing in jewelry you probably have a repair box with parts to fix things. If not you can get new rhinestones to put in this and sell as a repaired piece. This looks like an interesting piece. But it is missing stones. [ATTACH=full]102132[/ATTACH] I guess the point I am trying to make, is buy things that aren't damaged, unless you have the ability to fix them or are going to re-purpose them some how. Or unless they are gold or silver that have melt value. I know it is hard to pass things up that you know are old, and were once beautiful. Sometimes I buy broken things just because I like them and end up keeping them. But is difficult to sell damaged items.[/QUOTE]
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