It was a revolver, heavy, Crosman, listed it on Kijiji with a map to the neighboring Circle-K's and 7/11, the dodgiest guys pick it up, throw it in the car, pay me, then barrel out of here, I'm pretty sure they had my map on the dashboard. Makes me laugh...
**Then this morning, more texts from the same buyer, now he's looking for silver jewelry, it's like I'm setting up new immigrants as entry level gangsters...
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2 Clocks not working, from the locker, 1, I like the case, although the dial could use a repaint, which - in my mind, improves it - the possibilities are infinitely more than the sum of it's parts. The other, boring old mantle clock, chimes but doesn't run.
Get rid of them, both, and I list them both on Kijiji - and, within the hour I have 2 responses - one from Manitoba, clock repairman or hobbyist, he wants both. Great. Deal done.
The other, he starts by asking me about 1, then lowballs me with an offer $10.00 less..."Sorry, Sold" I reply. Funny when people try and lowball you on stuff, especially when it's only been listed an hour...and satisfying in the extreme to tell them "too late" or "sold".
Pack the clocks - a nightmare, their odd sizes mean I have to custom make a box. Think Homer Simpsons Spice rack, only with duct-tape and cardboard.
But it's done, in the mail, onto other things. Another responder on one of the clocks, I had told them their on hold, he counters with an offer of double what I was asking. Now I'm curious, I look up the clock online, sure enough, a Canadian Classic, but - no crying over spilt milk, just glad that it's gone, but it makes me pissed at the other one - the one that was lowballing me, nice try asshole...
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Sunday, a couple more pickers through, one, a younger couple that pick up a couple of cheap vintage cameras and a typewriter, and again help me out by taking some bones and crystals.
The other, a low rent picker, handsy, touches everything, asks prices of things that aren't for sale, fortunately he doesn't have much of an eye....
He notes the bronze bell - "From the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" I said in my ad, and he believed it...wants to trade for cheap reproduction sword, various junktiques in his car boot, I'm explaining, I'm downsizing, letting shit go, don't want more, want less, ...end up getting a couple of mint condition $2.00 Bills, $20, on items that I'd valued at around $60, but really, they're low-end and so - as much to get rid of him as to get rid of junk, I make the deal and send him off.
Most of the people, they've been likable, relateable, him, not-so, and finally he's gone and I can get back to whatever it was I was doing. The $2.00 bills will end up in some Barista's jar as a tip.
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Candlesticks, taking a big hit and nobody's swinging...wrong product, wrong town...
This is beautiful, I mean, German, Arts and Crafts, see another one for sale here: https://www.decorativecollective.com/dealers/antiques-and-decorative/p/goberg-candle-holder-aad012
I've easily got a dozen boxes full of antique candlesticks and I don't think I want to let them go at Calgary prices. I might have to set up some sort of online shop for the higher end items...
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