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[shadroch]

I decided to blow out a bunch of merchandise in a sale in my side yard this weekend.

I did alright but had two very strange encounters.

I've owned this property since the end of May so when someone showed up looking for the old owner, I explained this to the seemingly normal fifty year old women. To my shock, I'm hit with an F bomb and called an Fi g insufficiently_thoughtful_person.

Woman says she was here last week and wants to return something  that doesn't work. I explain the store wasn't open and she starts chanting something  under her breath and tells me my store is now cursed.  Tells me she would have settled for a refund but now I have earned her scorn and she is going to go on Facebook and tell the world her story.

Other one I kind of feel bad about. I had a bunch of Barbies on a lower shelf, marked $5 each. On the upper she were some collectible Barbies with a sign asking people not to handle them. So this grandmother type is looking at the $5 ones,and reaches up to bring two of the upper shelf ones down.  I see this and tell her the ones in her hands are expensive. She gets all indignant and tells me she is a collector and knows what they are worth.

It's been a long weekend and I was a bit impatient with her so when she asks how much they are, I tell her $50 each, figuring that will end it. She counters at $40 but I don't feel like dealing with her so I tell her I can't do better as they are on consignment. She goes into this rant about how it is illegal to sell consigned items at a yard sale and how I need special permits to sell consigned items in Arizona. I don't have time for this and pick the items up and say then I guess they aren't for sale then. She pulls out a $100 Bill and asks if I have change, that she will take the one for $50 but if I wasn't such a bully she'd have bought both for $100. At this point I was done and refused her money telling her if she wasn't such a pain, she could have had both for $50.  Let's just say neither of us were happy.

All in all, a reasonably successful first sale.

[oakman29]

4 minutes ago, shadroch said:

I decided to blow out a bunch of merchandise in a sale in my side yard this weekend.

I did alright but had two very strange encounters.

I've owned this property since the end of May so when someone showed up looking for the old owner, I explained this to the seemingly normal fifty year old women. To my shock, I'm hit with an F bomb and called an Fi g insufficiently_thoughtful_person.

Woman says she was here last week and wants to return something  that doesn't work. I explain the store wasn't open and she starts chanting something  under her breath and tells me my store is now cursed.  Tells me she would have settled for a refund but now I have earned her scorn and she is going to go on Facebook and tell the world her story.

Other one I kind of feel bad about. I had a bunch of Barbies on a lower shelf, marked $5 each. On the upper she were some collectible Barbies with a sign asking people not to handle them. So this grandmother type is looking at the $5 ones,and reaches up to bring two of the upper shelf ones down.  I see this and tell her the ones in her hands are expensive. She gets all indignant and tells me she is a collector and knows what they are worth.

It's been a long weekend and I was a bit impatient with her so when she asks how much they are, I tell her $50 each, figuring that will end it. She counters at $40 but I don't feel like dealing with her so I tell her I can't do better as they are on consignment. She goes into this rant about how it is illegal to sell consigned items at a yard sale and how I need special permits to sell consigned items in Arizona. I don't have time for this and pick the items up and say then I guess they aren't for sale then. She pulls out a $100 Bill and asks if I have change, that she will take the one for $50 but if I wasn't such a bully she'd have bought both for $100. At this point I was done and refused her money telling her if she wasn't such a pain, she could have had both for $50.  Let's just say neither of us were happy.

All in all, a reasonably successful first sale.

These women seem to know you better than I thought.

😂

Just kidding shad, .....well sorta kidding.😆

[ADAMANTIUM]

Snap! @shadroch  

You were hit wit both barrels!

[tv horror]

24 minutes ago, shadroch said:

under her breath and tells me my store is now cursed.  Tells me she would have settled for a refund but now I have earned her scorn

Oh NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Senormac]

2 hours ago, shadroch said:

 At this point I was done and refused her money telling her if she wasn't such a pain, she could have had both for $50. 

 

To be honest, I had to laugh, cuz I really wasn't expecting that word

[Senormac]

2 hours ago, shadroch said:

Woman says she was here last week and wants to return something  that doesn't work. I explain the store wasn't open and she starts chanting something  under her breath and tells me my store is now cursed.  Tells me she would have settled for a refund but now I have earned her scorn and she is going to go on Facebook and tell the world her story.

There are people out there who are into some weird sh*t.  Whether you'll notice anything or not depends on how much power she has. Most likely, not much. 

[tv horror]

4 minutes ago, Senormac said:

There are people out there who are into some weird sh*t.  Whether you'll notice anything or not depends on how much power she has. Most likely, not much. 

Check to see if you have any buttons missing.

[Comics4All]

26 minutes ago, tv horror said:

Check to see if you have any buttons missing.

Hopefully Justin Long is not in your living room! 

[tv horror]

18 minutes ago, comics4all said:

Hopefully Justin Long is not in your living room! 

He was clueless even in Jeepers creepers.

Oh Honey...You're wanted at the door I think it's some sort of Demon!

[Buzzetta]

5 hours ago, shadroch said:

I decided to blow out a bunch of merchandise in a sale in my side yard this weekend.

I did alright but had two very strange encounters.

I've owned this property since the end of May so when someone showed up looking for the old owner, I explained this to the seemingly normal fifty year old women. To my shock, I'm hit with an F bomb and called an Fi g insufficiently_thoughtful_person.

Woman says she was here last week and wants to return something  that doesn't work. I explain the store wasn't open and she starts chanting something  under her breath and tells me my store is now cursed.  Tells me she would have settled for a refund but now I have earned her scorn and she is going to go on Facebook and tell the world her story.

Other one I kind of feel bad about. I had a bunch of Barbies on a lower shelf, marked $5 each. On the upper she were some collectible Barbies with a sign asking people not to handle them. So this grandmother type is looking at the $5 ones,and reaches up to bring two of the upper shelf ones down.  I see this and tell her the ones in her hands are expensive. She gets all indignant and tells me she is a collector and knows what they are worth.

It's been a long weekend and I was a bit impatient with her so when she asks how much they are, I tell her $50 each, figuring that will end it. She counters at $40 but I don't feel like dealing with her so I tell her I can't do better as they are on consignment. She goes into this rant about how it is illegal to sell consigned items at a yard sale and how I need special permits to sell consigned items in Arizona. I don't have time for this and pick the items up and say then I guess they aren't for sale then. She pulls out a $100 Bill and asks if I have change, that she will take the one for $50 but if I wasn't such a bully she'd have bought both for $100. At this point I was done and refused her money telling her if she wasn't such a pain, she could have had both for $50.  Let's just say neither of us were happy.

All in all, a reasonably successful first sale.

A little something for a new york guy not in noo yawk.

Edited January 26, 2020 by Buzzetta

[nepatkm]

Sucks @shadroch, we have a community yard sale in our neighborhood twice a year. Sold some DVDs for $1 a piece, a person bought 10, and I told them to pick out 5 more for free to get rid of them. They came back 6 months later wanting to return the 15 DVDs because they watched them, and wanted to trade for 20 more??

— Don’t even want to participate in this event, but we have too  😕

 

[kav]

2 hours ago, tv horror said:

He was clueless even in Jeepers creepers.

Oh Honey...You're wanted at the door I think it's some sort of Demon!

Oh honey I found your button here ya go-

[the blob]

13 hours ago, shadroch said:

I decided to blow out a bunch of merchandise in a sale in my side yard this weekend.

I did alright but had two very strange encounters.

I've owned this property since the end of May so when someone showed up looking for the old owner, I explained this to the seemingly normal fifty year old women. To my shock, I'm hit with an F bomb and called an Fi g insufficiently_thoughtful_person.

Woman says she was here last week and wants to return something  that doesn't work. I explain the store wasn't open and she starts chanting something  under her breath and tells me my store is now cursed.  Tells me she would have settled for a refund but now I have earned her scorn and she is going to go on Facebook and tell the world her story.

Other one I kind of feel bad about. I had a bunch of Barbies on a lower shelf, marked $5 each. On the upper she were some collectible Barbies with a sign asking people not to handle them. So this grandmother type is looking at the $5 ones,and reaches up to bring two of the upper shelf ones down.  I see this and tell her the ones in her hands are expensive. She gets all indignant and tells me she is a collector and knows what they are worth.

It's been a long weekend and I was a bit impatient with her so when she asks how much they are, I tell her $50 each, figuring that will end it. She counters at $40 but I don't feel like dealing with her so I tell her I can't do better as they are on consignment. She goes into this rant about how it is illegal to sell consigned items at a yard sale and how I need special permits to sell consigned items in Arizona. I don't have time for this and pick the items up and say then I guess they aren't for sale then. She pulls out a $100 Bill and asks if I have change, that she will take the one for $50 but if I wasn't such a bully she'd have bought both for $100. At this point I was done and refused her money telling her if she wasn't such a pain, she could have had both for $50.  Let's just say neither of us were happy.

All in all, a reasonably successful first sale.

Hah. And you thought you were leaving difficult people back in New York? They followed you!

[the blob]

I get the people offering 25 cents for an item marked $2 that is an unopened $20 item. Or being sneaky... My wife sold vintage costume jewelry. Each item was in a clear bag with a marked price. Guy comes, takes them all out of their bags, making it impossible for me to figure it out, and then asks how much, and is offering about 10% of what they had been priced, so 50 cents for thing she had marked $5"that would be $25 in a store. But yeah, I love the 25 cent offers, as if I desperately need 25 cents. Some of it is cultural I guess given that I live in a melting pot.

Edited January 27, 2020 by the blob

[the blob]

Otoh our annual neighborhood yard sale is generally good for $2-300. This year I hope we are ready for it. Usually I run around like crazy for the hour before we open trying to find stuff.

[kav]

11 minutes ago, the blob said:

I get the people offering 25 cents for an item marked $2 that is an unopened $20 item. Or being sneaky... My wife sold vintage costume jewelry. Each item was in a clear bag with a marked price. Guy comes, takes them all out of their bags, making it impossible for me to figure it out, and then asks how much, and is offering about 10% of what they had been priced, so 50 cents for thing she had marked $5"that would be $25 in a store. But yeah, I love the 25 cent offers, as if I desperately need 25 cents. Some of it is cultural I guess given that I live in a melting pot.

"Yo mama so poor she have to switch stickers at a yard sale"

[Deadpoolica]

[tv horror]

18 hours ago, the blob said:

Otoh our annual neighborhood yard sale is generally good for $2-300. This year I hope we are ready for it. Usually I run around like crazy for the hour before we open trying to find stuff.

Honey where's the children?

[slym2none]

1 hour ago, tv horror said:

Honey where's the children?

"I got $5 for one and $20 for the other."



-slym

[Robot Man]

On 1/26/2020 at 7:46 AM, shadroch said:

I decided to blow out a bunch of merchandise in a sale in my side yard this weekend.

I did alright but had two very strange encounters.

I've owned this property since the end of May so when someone showed up looking for the old owner, I explained this to the seemingly normal fifty year old women. To my shock, I'm hit with an F bomb and called an Fi g insufficiently_thoughtful_person.

Woman says she was here last week and wants to return something  that doesn't work. I explain the store wasn't open and she starts chanting something  under her breath and tells me my store is now cursed.  Tells me she would have settled for a refund but now I have earned her scorn and she is going to go on Facebook and tell the world her story.

Other one I kind of feel bad about. I had a bunch of Barbies on a lower shelf, marked $5 each. On the upper she were some collectible Barbies with a sign asking people not to handle them. So this grandmother type is looking at the $5 ones,and reaches up to bring two of the upper shelf ones down.  I see this and tell her the ones in her hands are expensive. She gets all indignant and tells me she is a collector and knows what they are worth.

It's been a long weekend and I was a bit impatient with her so when she asks how much they are, I tell her $50 each, figuring that will end it. She counters at $40 but I don't feel like dealing with her so I tell her I can't do better as they are on consignment. She goes into this rant about how it is illegal to sell consigned items at a yard sale and how I need special permits to sell consigned items in Arizona. I don't have time for this and pick the items up and say then I guess they aren't for sale then. She pulls out a $100 Bill and asks if I have change, that she will take the one for $50 but if I wasn't such a bully she'd have bought both for $100. At this point I was done and refused her money telling her if she wasn't such a pain, she could have had both for $50.  Let's just say neither of us were happy.

All in all, a reasonably successful first sale.

I get freaks like that from time to time when I set up at flea markets. I just take them away, turn my back and talk to someone else. 

Here’s one. I set up at Terry’s con every year. I have various boxes of half price Marvel & DC GA/SA/BA. I also have boxes of higher priced similar books. I got some kid mix ‘em up and tell me they were all half price stuff. Come on, like I’m some dumb old geezer that doesn’t know any better? I ended up just taking them out of his hands and told him to get lost. 

This year, I got smart and put a tiny red dot on the higher priced ones. Guess what? Two kids tried the same thing and looked all astonished when I pointed it out. Away they slinked with their tails between their legs like bad puppies...