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Message:: [QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 2610642, member: 10944"]I’ve seen that a couple times where “the family kept it” and the sale runners are annoyed. One thing that happened to me once I was at a sale run by a very knowledgeable antique dealer. There was a beautiful Bradley and Hubbard slag glass lamp. One panel on the shade was broken and no one bought it. It looked perfect angles right against a wall though. I think she had it marked cheap to begin with at like $60-$100 or so. Very end of sale I talked her down really low, like $20-$40 on it. I had a handful of other items too. Went to pay only to realize it was a cash only sale. She wouldn’t do PayPal or Venmo but said she would take the items home and hold them for me and I could pay cash in the next day or two. I paid her what little cash I had on me for a couple items, not thinking about which I wanted the most. She left with the two items I desired the most. I show up to her house and she tellS me the family decided to keep the lamp. I was sooooooo bummed. I assume she just bought it/took it herself and resold after realizing it was a signed piece. Guessing she was just really busy and it slipped past her when pricing originally. I turned up at another one of her sales this past weekend, again without adequate cash. Luckily this time her husband was at checkout and it was final minutes. He just gave me everything I had for the $14 I could scrounge out of my car. Probably should have been 3-5x that.[/QUOTE]