duffy

hey ya, scott!!!

ill try it next time....appreciate the info

yeah ....

I was sayin the prices of the marbles...is there a best offer deal or is that the price of it..steph .just copy and paste like the old days..nope didn't work...maybe my machine is outdated...I was gonna post a link to the marbles auction..

steph...why cant I post a link??

little pricey, don't ya think...

you haint far off there kbob,...my retirement playbook , modeled after Sanford and son...includes all those things....as tom jones said "its not unusual" to find smokers huddling on the porch while lookin at the thermometer....

yes....and other old junk..

thanks kbob!!....I don't buy much furniture...or clothes, except blue jeans and old concert t-shirts and Harley-davidson stuff....I like kitchen tools ....glassware and costume jewelery ,bottles and fishin poles..those graphite and bamboo...I do pick up brass lamps...if theyre cheap and recycle them...hard to find good furniture in them old barns....doors and widows sell easy,too....ive gotta clean out my garage....its full...Im expecting my first retirement ck next week.....yahoo!!!!

I hate it when fox has nfl football them there guys put the scoreboard up in the left hand corner...its not even in the picture and too small to see...plus 2 or 3 lines of information scrolling underneath...when they put the participants on there and they are introducing themselves like "ima Player ....museum state"....its just filler.....those talkin heads could read the lineup....I think people would enjoy the games ..in stadium sounds...and you tellin youre couch mate...wow.nice run...in stead of joe jock sayin blah blah blah...when I was at penn state...blah,blah ,blah....all the action is there...you could read the score board public address guy and the refs...same as baseball, drives me nutz....

marble dealers can be very hard to deal with...theres a certain way about em that seem to grate at me, but after I ran out of duck tape to wrap up my skull, I found out that some people don't catch on how to play fair and equal....theres got to be a middle but alas, its like the wall bangin in our govts is easier to let em be in their own little space...sorry you had problems....I never went to any of those ruby lane places to buy..i did browse some but couldn't afford the high prices....that's on me..but im cheap...I have other ways to make money so this collectible and antiques thing is more of a hobby..it may seem like a full time job....but you can always sell something some where....and spendin 10$ to make 50$ is ok..its just pocket money...but it might take me a long time to sell it.....if I lived a metro area or bigger city...it would be easier...country livin can be remote and the towns within 50 miles are dinky and walmart is the main supplier...2 hrs away is Pittsburgh and Columbus..its all good....

great!!!...im glad you can sell bricks in that condition....where is your store ....the thrift stores haint cheap anymore...goodwill---salvation army sell jeans for almost retail....in this area of the country....theres not many thrift stores but a few second hand shops that are way overpriced..they get their prices from ebay and not completed prices, either...I know sellin collectibles and antiques that get bought for too much at auction houses after biddin wars does not mean the value of that item is worth another 20-30%....ive done it all and not ignorant in the process....well I haint sold at an antiques mall cause I think that its all overpriced and your profit goes to the owner of the building...I do frequent mom and pop stores and enjoy that cause its the thrill of the hunt and the dealin with the owner of the object...theres one store in Marietta ohio ,that been there for at least 25 years prob longer...,that offers good stuff and great prices...they wont even take cosignments....but I think that era of antiquing is over...most stuff taken from the attics of the Victorian houses in the 70s is long gone...when the Victorian manors were changed into duplexes all up and down the riverfronts in these ohio river towns....then....the kids moved away sold the properties and lots of stuff to dumpsters....sad ...at least tell me what state your in....you might get some walk ins...I visit one mall in kokomo when im there visitin my son...that has a booth that's a marble show compadre.....but I think that all venues have different pricing methods...upscale antique stores should be higher than flea mkts and yard sales should be cheaper yet....but still there you can have fun dealin........ive paid as much as 60$ at a flea mkt near Pittsburgh but mostly its in the 10$ range....its all fun and if you haint tried it....youre missin out.. its hard work and takes a certain bit of dedication...enjoy your process!!!

could you post a picture of the 140$ brick....at 11/16 I would think that $60 would be a fair price....where is your store ??..different parts of the country has different costs of living....I know it is more expensive to live in big cities and here in the ohio valley region, I was fortunate enough to buy land before the oil and gas boom made properties almost unattainable...we pay 20-30% more for gasoline than other places in the state....just 50 miles or so away the price of gas is sometime 40-50cents less a gallon...I sell lots of marbles out west so I know wages and livin there is large.... around here you cant give glassware fenton ,imperial..Viking..fostiria ..and most others away..i get it real cheap at auction and yard sales and can double my money on that easy enough online...so maybe I could try to sell it online in your area via the internet....to dealers at a great price...good luck on your sales..

good answer......I don't see much gusto in the twentysomethings and teens and younger are worse.....in the most part disrespectable ...they got their noses planted in their devices...even if theyre in the same room they'll text each other...heck... they don't even know how to play outside....

those marble price guides are way off...I would think that the antique price guides are ,too...its like those storage locker auction shows....those prices those guys give are just numbers picked out of a hat....do you really think that if you paid 2.50 for an item...it worth 10.00 nope don't work that way..youll hit a homer every once in a while....but not often.....those malls are designed that the guy that owns the building makes the money..certainly not the dealer or the guy buyin the junk....ive been dealin with collectibles for 40+ years....ive considered getting one of those booths but I don't see it makin me any money...I do make money sellin at flea mkts and yard sales....and I do the interactin with the buyer....the malls take the fun out of it for me......im sure you think your system works for you....but if youre like me the fun is in the hunt....and the process of sittin up some tables...and dealin with the people..since im retired ,now...I figure that this summer I will be sellin off the junk ...ive been storing for awhile....ive got tons of 50-60s ...I think the know-it -alls call it mid century items and bottles and fishin gear and glassware....itll be fun...but itll take some work...like getting up and leave at 430am drive to the flea mkt set up before daylight and sellin til 1pm....that's fun.....and ill gurantee you, ill make the couple hundred bucks ....or maybe more...maybe less...but the 10$ fee to set up is well worth it....and I don't have to split it with no one...different strokes for different folks...but no one leaves feelin ripped off....ill prob take the 300$ crocks home with me but those 1-2 $ kitchen tools and hotwheels and bottles and fishin poles...will have to be restocked at the yard sales.....im in it for the fun....and if anbodies gonna make the money its me......good luck on your sales....

antique malls are a not for the buyer..its for the seller....10% off an item haint much dickerin...like I said if a person overpaid for an item..don't take it out on the prospective buyer....I know...go to the desk get a key wait for the nimrod to find the right key...get the item out inspect the overpriced item...wait for the underpaid clerk to call the seller...then pay more than it worth.how easy would it be for the clerk to be talkin to no one...then say they said thell take 10% off.....not fun.....this all takes time...too much time...if a person wants to sell something..set up a table in your driveway...be honest that you don't know what your sellin.."I saw one on ebay for 250.00"...then put it on ebay....don't waste the publics time.....somebodies gotta pay the rent...its not me....if you buy something for 10$ don't expect to get 40$ for it....lololol... .amazing

those antique mall things are terrible...ive been in lots of em and they've taken out one important thing in the process...the dickering....theres only a few flea markets worth goin too..the one in Marietta at an old discount store has had the same stuffin it for 25 years....most stuff couldnt sell for a dime...there is a antique show that vendors travel to every month or so but they have to cover their expences so theres not a good deal to be had there....everybody things theyre sittin on a gold mine but that's not the case....people who use ebay for pricin at yard sales are way off ,too....theres perpetual yard sales that sell things 200-300 % over what its worth...its a yard sale for goodness sakes....then theres the know-it all that strut around at the venues ,where you shop...weve all seen em....if you think that your knowledge is over the lesser...you have no idea how ignorant you really look...things people thought are rare..haint...its mostly just old....if you overspend don't take it out on me...if you wanna see greed at its upmost ,go to a live marbles only auction...just because you spent 100$ for an item don't make it worth that....any amount of bullcrap that you spew to cover your mistake is laughable....then theres reproductions and fakes...I could go on and on....top 5 reasons collectibles have sunk...1..greed..2...overpayin...3...antique malls...4...ego...5....tryin to reinvent the wheel....ebay is just a marketplace....

awesome!!

I couldn't understand the language....when was the cateyes put in there??? nice story ,bob...

I have some of the tumbled glass too...I traded him some marbles for some awesome sand dollar fossils...my sympathies to the family...

its 3 below here on the river at 6pm...coldest since 94 tonight gonna be -12 with a breeze thatll make it 50 below...I don't like it at all...hey miser..leave your faucets run a little over a drip...I gurantee it wont freeze...and hot water pipes freeze before the cold does..

outstanding!!!!

you've got me convinced,kbob...

thanks for becoming a believer,bob...lololol.....

great connection ,bill....