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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lucille.b, post: 9913056, member: 51&quot;]Update.</p><p><br /></p><p>I listed this on Facebook marketplace today and had two interested buyers in 15 minutes. One wanted me to ship, no thanks. I listed for $1,200 for a quick sale (recall the gold buyer&#039;s top dollar was $900). Went with buyer #1. I put in the Facebook ad that it was &quot;cash only&quot; and that the silverware could be viewed at my house, but for payment, we meet at my bank. The buyer had kind of a mafia-like name, &quot;Sonny&quot;... (plus a tiny bit of a New Jersey accent on the phone) so I felt a little nervous, but then he said we could &quot;just skip the house and meet straight at the bank&quot;, it seemed safer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course a few small snags. I get in my mom&#039;s car to bring silverware to bank, and car is suddenly making this horrible noise, so much that I didn&#039;t dare drive it. I bicycle a lot, so bicycled over with the sterling in the box, luckily just a few blocks away. Initially I thought I would pop the car trunk, let the guy examine everything (maybe he&#039;d have a scale?) and then we&#039;d go into the bank. I wasn&#039;t going to do that in my bike trailer --I&#039;d look like I was homeless or something. So got there early, locked my bike, and waited in the bank.</p><p><br /></p><p>Luckily there was this chatty bank employee I kind of know from banking and I blurted the whole thing out ...Facebook...mom&#039;s sterling...paying in cash...want to make sure not counterfeit... The employee says, &quot;No problem!&quot; and sets me up in a comfortable chair, even offered water. &quot;Sonny&quot; shows up exactly on time, he looks at the set, picked up one spoon, no counting of anything, no weighing. He said, &quot;I&#039;ll take it.&quot; Hands me the cash, I deposit it. (Side note: I learned that the bank puts all cash deposits in a machine that will flag anything counterfeit.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I said to Sonny, I don&#039;t even need to know what you are going to do with it, and he interrupts and says, &quot;Oh, I&#039;m going to use it.&nbsp; We eat with sterling and I think this might replace the set we currently have.&nbsp; I really like the pattern.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Realize this might be BS, but sale already done, so why make up a story like that.&nbsp; Also he didn&#039;t bother with any weighing, so I think it might actually be true.&nbsp; This was one thing I hoped for but was sure would not happen.&nbsp; That the set would stay together!!&nbsp; It was in excellent condition, with a lot of matching fun pieces. Mom&#039;s set.</p><p><br /></p><p>Was SO ready to sell this.&nbsp; Heck, I&#039;m not even keeping the money.&nbsp; $1,200 divides evenly between 3 grand kids and I get my closet shelf back.</p><p><br /></p><p>The End.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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