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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 3922660, member: 36"]That sounds like a FUN market! In college I'd have been there done that! I'm a natural noctural. As for price guides, good luck with that. The prices in them are full retail at the time of writing, and can swing all over the map in the space of a few years. They're somewhat useful for bathroom reading to learn names and patterns and the like. If you're in a market it's no time to be reading up. </p><p><br /></p><p>One of my personal tricks, one a lot of real junkers use, is to buy the out of place item. Buy your toys from a textiles or jewelry dealer and jewelry from the knife guy. Knives from the person with ceramics. The seller as often as not wants the oddball gone and may not know what it is. If you do, you may be in the money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 3922660, member: 36"]That sounds like a FUN market! In college I'd have been there done that! I'm a natural noctural. As for price guides, good luck with that. The prices in them are full retail at the time of writing, and can swing all over the map in the space of a few years. They're somewhat useful for bathroom reading to learn names and patterns and the like. If you're in a market it's no time to be reading up. One of my personal tricks, one a lot of real junkers use, is to buy the out of place item. Buy your toys from a textiles or jewelry dealer and jewelry from the knife guy. Knives from the person with ceramics. The seller as often as not wants the oddball gone and may not know what it is. If you do, you may be in the money.[/QUOTE]
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