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99.99 quid might be too much! Did you mean 99.99 spondulicks? 🙂
The thrift shop I volunteer at has just this week re-opened as a bookshop. The manager’s instructed us to use a site called Bookbutler to price books. The site seems to me to be a bit clunky.
One example: a book turns up in one of the sacks- 1880s about Korean Christianity. I check up online and find one copy for sale at £380 so I left a note about this. Someone else prices it up at £100 and puts it on display in a cabinet. Now as far as I can see the bookseller pulled their “£380” price out of their nether regions- the book falls into that category of Victorian religious personal stories which ain’t worth nothing. However an elderly gentleman did last week purchase the book- did he think it was very underpriced having checked it online?
He hasn’t found Wish yet then? Just keep your fingers crossed 🙂
Bicycle parts, e.g. Campagnolo stuff such as seat pillars
Maybe Dyson bits (reasonably easy to dismantle, but the motor housings are a bit of a bojo)
I made a functioning lawn mower out of two Flymos; easy to take apart but they seem to be built down to a price
The surface-silvered mirrors out of Polaroid cameras (haven’t tried this)
The silver collars from fish forks (the cream-coloured handles give off noxious fumes when heated)
Bookplates and marbled endpapers (go on- be a vandal!)
Handmade nails and screws from old furniture and lumber
09/24/2019 at 3:12 pm in reply to: Is The Glitch On My End? Did You Know Ebay Has A "System Status" Page? #68231…and for eBayers in the sceptered isle, replace .com/sts with .co.uk/sts.
Check out “Chinese textile industry in Italy”- you may find that the company is Chinese-owned. The town of Prato is apparently the centre of the textile trade there- Chinese entrepreneurs managed to subvert the Italian “closed shop” that had a stranglehold on the industry.
Estimating a room temperature of 23ºC, the purchaser will assume that coolness just over 9 hours after kicking the bucket.
The background looks like Chinese seal script (link to Wikipedia). Think the wagons with parasols are also Chinese. I would think that they’re for drinking spirits, like mao tai, ‘cos the tea cups tend to be conical, so you can clean the tannin stains easily.
09/19/2019 at 11:25 am in reply to: German Green Plastic Frog Game Piece? From The Depths of my death pile #67964Not that I’m an expert, but if it’s got a warty skin isn’t it a toad?
Dredging up a memory of something I read years ago, the transfers used by British potters declined in artistic quality after copyright restrictions on copying artworks came in. Can’t remember the year, but I think it was about 1845. After that the potters had to use in-house designers. And then there’s “flow blue”… is that still a thing?
I stopped listing with free shipping because I was getting offers below the cost of shipping; offers that I’d actually accept if the shipping was extra. I have the feeling that prospective buyers are making these offers without thinking about the shipping cost- unfortunately once they’ve made the offer there’s no way to add the p&p to the listing.
“Hot Art, Cold Cash” by Michel van Rijn is an interesting read regarding bargaining; apparently one accepted technique is to allow the seller to “rip you off” on the first deal and then to get down to serious haggling. This is in Istanbul- the Great Souk in Chipping Sodbury has different customs 🙂
09/15/2019 at 10:40 am in reply to: Bicentennial items for the Sestercentennial: Long Tail to the extreme? #67794This Queen Elizabeth II coronation mug by Eric Ravilious is priced at £400. Which maybe is a bit overpriced, but almost any other coronation mug from 1953 is worthless. The high price is probably a combination of name recognition, brand (Wedgwood) and quality of design, rather than the event itself. Maybe some similar items were produced back in 1976.
Ha! I know the answer to that! Keep shtum.
Thanks Mike- I’m never likely to see one baseball card let alone a truck-full, but it’s good to learn!
I suppose there’s a miniature version of U-Haul, renting out carts to the retirees and divorcees.
I found a Rp 2,000 note in a book last Tuesday. Unfortunately it’s Indonesian rupiah 🙁
A small aluminium cylinder that unscrews. Inside the lid is a metal spike and beside it two holes. Think it’s a device for huffing nitrous oxide from chargers.
Last week a working and clean $200 cordless vacuum with its charger- thrown out because the plastic catch holding the dust cylinder was broken.
A public address system, dumped in a layby on the Groby bypass. That was yesterday evening- maybe someone stole a van from a music festival and dumped the contents. Left that for the authorities…
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