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I do a couple of shifts as a volunteer in a thrift shop, sorting and pricing books. Today’s pile was about 20 sacks of books, each weighing about 50 pounds.I can use a barcode scanner, connected to a computer, inputting to Amazon and Abe, but I only do that for a few books.
The books I dump include hardback fiction, trade paperback fiction, autobiographies by nonentities, some diet books, out-of-date cookery books unless they involve Jello and Spam, technical books in which the field has progressed significantly since the book was published (e.g. computing) and Guinness Book of Records/Ripley’s/annuals of any sort.
Scanning can give a rough idea of desirability- most books turn out to be between 1 penny (or cent) to a couple of quid (or dollars). It being a shop, the stuff gets priced at 1.99, 2.99 or 3.99. I try not to put the sticker over the barcode 🙂
I (kind of) gave up on .99, since a lot of my meagre sales are to overseas buyers, and I feel that it just confuses them. Maybe the decimal point versus comma thing would also have an effect.
You could have fun, though. Price Islamic items at 7.86, Chinese items at 8.88 and (insert your choice here) at 6.66!
Listened to it, and it kind of explains why if I sign in at home I usually don’t have to do a Captcha, because there’s a Gmail account signed in on the computer. Elsewhere I spend up to two minutes clicking away.
Good luck with it, Sharyn! I had a brass candelabra with dried-on polish. Used soaking, scrubbing, vinegar, caustic soda, ultrasonic cleaner, dental pick, Barkeeper’s Friend, Vim, Toilet Duck, Brasso. I learned something… 🙂
“Steampunk dragon” is kind of getting there. You’ve got the dragon and pearls, but it doesn’t look Chinese in style.
What’s the crud in the eye of the left-hand dolphin? I thought it was dried-up brass polish.
Try “hair pin”. Looks GameOfThronish to me.
I like that sort of buyer. Turns a long-tail item into someone else’s long-tail item. I know this ‘cos I get word back about some of the items I sell through an antique shop, which are still clogging up some dealer’s inventory. Tip: don’t buy Pall Mall glassware… or any stamps printed after 1841.
Third character down (right hand side) is ‘woman’
If it’s brown paper-based tape, with a coating of gum arabic, it can be dipped in water and layered on what you’re sticking. It shrinks as it dries. Curling’s no problem. I used it to stretch watercolour paper.
Don’t lick it, though. Unless you like the taste of brown paper.
I did once get an extra £20 from a very satisfied buyer, after he received the item. So these unicorns do exist!
Don’t know how the Belgian postal codes work, but if I left my house number off, the code would identify the street, and on the final manual sort the post-person would probably check the name against other mail for the same location.
Someone dug an oil painting out of an outhouse and gave it to me. It was covered in soot- I paid £380 to have it cleaned and the frame regilded. After several attempts to sell it (provenance was that it came from a stately home whose contents had been dispersed in the 1930s) it went for auction, where it fetched £150! I’d have been better off leaving it dirty.
Well! I wuz way off! The “Tadpole Brothers”, eh?
Came across an old tin for sticking plasters on Friday. Thought it was a bit heavy, opened it and found a cigarette lighter. Bought for £2, listed for £90, sold to a Chinese gent who offered £80 two hours later.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/183797235138
Well, it was broken 🙂
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