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In lugnet.general, Dan Hennings wrote:
> Wow and congrats! Your experience has certainly been different than mine. My
> wife and I used to hit the thrift stores every week. We stopped going two years
> ago for two reasons:
> 1) We realized our house was full of junk that we didn't need.
> 2) As eBay and Antiques Roadshow grew in popularity the selection at thrift
> stores went down hill. There were two things that I think happened
> simultaneously. First, people stopped giving their stuff to the stores, opting
> for eBay instead. Second, toward the end of our thrift store days we noticed the
> same people at the stores; this caused us to speculate that they were using
> thrift stores to feed their eBay business. Ya, the early bird gets the worm, and
> maybe there is more Lego in the stores now than ever. But to the casual shopper
> Lego is a rare find.
Maybe it's a socio/geographic thing. I live in Chicago so there are dozens of
resale shops, and enough affluence that alot of folks just prefer to drop it off
for that warm-fuzzy-feeling and tax write off rather than bother with Ebay.
I do agree that Ebay is hurting resale. I met a woman two weeks ago that freely
confessed that she was looking for books to sell on line, and you have to also
compete with people who run vintage and specialty stores who get alot of their
stuff from traditional resale stores.
All in all though, it's been pretty good pickings. And even if I don't find
anything, with the average resale price for a 2/3 full bucket of bricks being
around 5 bucks, it's usually worth the effort.
Karl
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