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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MrNate, post: 9788553, member: 5515&quot;]Sorry for the short message, not too much time today, but I&#039;ll do my best to answer:</p><p><br /></p><p>The listing was online, but I met the person local (if that makes sense).</p><p><br /></p><p>I knew from the minute I looked at the photos how to approach the deal:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. If there was any real value, it was in the flatware.</p><p>2. Many many many of the large items looked like junk.</p><p>3. The listing states everything is plated...so I had to proceed cautiously. I didn&#039;t ask for any additional photos, and glad I didn&#039;t because that could have spoiled the deal. </p><p>4. My plan was simple - get an agreed deal for all the silverware, and see if I can spot anything else when I get there.</p><p>5. I probably spent ~50 seconds max looking through the bins, I wasn&#039;t really trying to mess around with spoiling my own deal. If I start flipping things upside down and scrutinizing pieces for marks, that might have made my deal for the silverware more challenging. </p><p><br /></p><p>So mostly everything else looked like junk to me, I did smartly grab the candlesticks and a bag of napkin holders; my original deal was $50 for the silverware so those were added in for $10 more. I thought maybe there was a goblet in the photos that looked promising, but nothing else looked remotely interesting ---&gt; I also learned from the seller he had the group posted for a few days and he sold some of it, and he only recently added in the silverware...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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