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<p>[QUOTE="pearlsnblume, post: 4473897, member: 141"]Here we usually don't have more than one day of an estate sale. A few companies do it, but not the majority. One day sales are most common.</p><p><br /></p><p>Because nothing at most estate sales here have price tags on it, bundling abounds with the high hopes the total is ok. You never know what prices the estate sale person is going to throw at you for what you have found. I do know some estate sale runners ask crazy prices and so I tend to avoid those sales so I don't waste my time. I found 2 cookbooks in the winter at an estate sale, they wanted $20. I never pay that much for cookbooks. So I handed them back and said good bye. I won't be returning to that estate sale runner. I know my margins and that doesn't work for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>If they come in too too high, I haggle. It is very common here. I know some who haggle even when they are getting a fantastic deal on a bundle. They know most of us who go to estate sales are sellers so we have to make a decent profit on what we buy or there is no point. But I could see in a mall, if the buyers are the end buyers they may not care as much about a lower price since it is for them to use or display and not resell.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="pearlsnblume, post: 4473897, member: 141"]Here we usually don't have more than one day of an estate sale. A few companies do it, but not the majority. One day sales are most common. Because nothing at most estate sales here have price tags on it, bundling abounds with the high hopes the total is ok. You never know what prices the estate sale person is going to throw at you for what you have found. I do know some estate sale runners ask crazy prices and so I tend to avoid those sales so I don't waste my time. I found 2 cookbooks in the winter at an estate sale, they wanted $20. I never pay that much for cookbooks. So I handed them back and said good bye. I won't be returning to that estate sale runner. I know my margins and that doesn't work for me. If they come in too too high, I haggle. It is very common here. I know some who haggle even when they are getting a fantastic deal on a bundle. They know most of us who go to estate sales are sellers so we have to make a decent profit on what we buy or there is no point. But I could see in a mall, if the buyers are the end buyers they may not care as much about a lower price since it is for them to use or display and not resell.[/QUOTE]
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