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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 10207766, member: 36"]Google lens should be used like Autocorrect, OK as a starting point but prone to stupid mistakes. It works about one time in ten for me, with seven of the other nine results being totally wrong. </p><p><br /></p><p>I run into Googlers every time I walk into a thrift, seems like. They make life more difficult, but in setting like rummages/car boots/estate sales we with some good general knowledge will eat the googlers' lunch. While they're researching an item, we're walking off with it or the thing they should have bought. </p><p>I used to do that to some loupe-happy gold hunters. I'd struggle up to where the jewelry was kept only to find the two of them (church annual rummage sale, now defunct) looking at every single piece of goldtoned jewelry. Meanwhile, they'd left the sterling Alfred Philippe for Trifari crown set sitting there. Not sure if they found much, but I scored the Trifari that time for under US$5.(LOL)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 10207766, member: 36"]Google lens should be used like Autocorrect, OK as a starting point but prone to stupid mistakes. It works about one time in ten for me, with seven of the other nine results being totally wrong. I run into Googlers every time I walk into a thrift, seems like. They make life more difficult, but in setting like rummages/car boots/estate sales we with some good general knowledge will eat the googlers' lunch. While they're researching an item, we're walking off with it or the thing they should have bought. I used to do that to some loupe-happy gold hunters. I'd struggle up to where the jewelry was kept only to find the two of them (church annual rummage sale, now defunct) looking at every single piece of goldtoned jewelry. Meanwhile, they'd left the sterling Alfred Philippe for Trifari crown set sitting there. Not sure if they found much, but I scored the Trifari that time for under US$5.(LOL)[/QUOTE]
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