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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;evelyb30, post: 10208410, member: 36&quot;]A lot of the dealers I know have gone to doing estate buyouts and bulk sales, rather explaining why the rest of us are finding squat locally.&nbsp; It&#039;s all being sold before we even know it exists.&nbsp; Auction fees for even local sales aren&#039;t going anywhere but up. Tag sales where I live are dead, and a lot of estate sales are on line. It&#039;s been getting worse for years and last year I felt like I was spending more money on gasoline than merch most weekends.&nbsp; (because I was.) When some tag sales did turn up, the things for sale were all of recent manufacture and used kiddie stuff.&nbsp; No jewelry for sale at all, even at the estate sales, unless it was Donation Pile grade.&nbsp; It was horrible.</p><p><br /></p><p>When the estate sale had older things or jewelry, it was a) low grade junk, b) damaged , c) priced at retail, d) replica or a combination.&nbsp; I ran into all of the above.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>To add insult to injury, even a higher end thrift where I live is begging for jewelry donations.&nbsp;&nbsp; If they&#039;re not getting stuff, and they&#039;re jacking up prices for what they do get...I smell trouble, because it&#039;s not going to get better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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