bigcaddy64
Hero Member
In response to 1treasurehunter1's thread, how about some stories about settling the score between rude/pushy jerks that you frequently bump into at sales. I recently had an experience, and another shared by my dad, that made me laugh all weekend.
I was first in to an estate sale, it really wasn't great and prices were high, so i punched out my check list and finally came to jewelry. I went to the table and started to look at a few items then noticed the 2 huge bags of loose jewelry. A woman was looking through one so i asked, loudly, if she was looking at both? I received a glare as she pulled the other bag closer to herself and put her purse on top of it as she frantically went through the open bag. The woman at the counter picked up on what i was doing and said "you can't hold that other bag and you have to let this gentleman look at it" She tossed the half searched bag to me and opened the closed bag.
I started to thumb through it and after spying something useful, i knew what i had to do. At the very bottom was a reproduction 10.00 gold indian head coin that was passable as real. I pulled it out and said to the cashier with a grin, "did you know there is a gold coin in here?" The woman next to me about stroked out because that should of been her gold coin! As we discussed a way to "price" the coin, the woman stormed out in a seething rage. The cashier had already seen it and knew it was a repro (the back was marked Frank's Numismatic Tokens) and laughed about the joke and thanked me for the entertainment.
The other story was from my dad. He's an avid antique hunter/collector, and with 50+ years of hunting, knows his stuff well. He remembers a really pushy lady that would show up to sales hours before (no problem there) but would knock and expected to be let in early because she was there first. On top of being rude, demanding and generally unpleasant, she was shrill and would take stuff off hold tables and lie to get her way. She was crazy about antique dolls and my dad knew this. After some research in the Antiques Collector magazine he subscribed to, he was ready for this devil woman and set the stage.
At his yearly garage sale, he awaited the arrival of the "doll lady", knowing she couldn't resist his well-worded ad. She arrived shortly after the start time to do some quick rummaging of the wares. Unsatisfied with the offerings, she wanted to know if there were any dolls for sale. Not missing a beat, my dad explained that he had given his GRANDMOTHERS dolls away to the neighbors 5 year old daughter. He told her there were no Cabbage Patch Dolls, which were very popular at the time, just some porcelain "red cross" dolls that were old and dingy looking. I don't remember the manufacturer Dad mentioned but the "red cross" doll was quite rare and worth upwards of 3000.00 at the time.
After hearing my dad's response, she turned pale and just sort of wandered off. Ever since that day, when my dad bumped into her, he asked her if she had found any Cabbage Patch dolls lately
Have any fellow Tnet members exacted any revenge for those "hunters" who were so deserving of it? Share your stories, please! I could use the laughs this morning
I was first in to an estate sale, it really wasn't great and prices were high, so i punched out my check list and finally came to jewelry. I went to the table and started to look at a few items then noticed the 2 huge bags of loose jewelry. A woman was looking through one so i asked, loudly, if she was looking at both? I received a glare as she pulled the other bag closer to herself and put her purse on top of it as she frantically went through the open bag. The woman at the counter picked up on what i was doing and said "you can't hold that other bag and you have to let this gentleman look at it" She tossed the half searched bag to me and opened the closed bag.
I started to thumb through it and after spying something useful, i knew what i had to do. At the very bottom was a reproduction 10.00 gold indian head coin that was passable as real. I pulled it out and said to the cashier with a grin, "did you know there is a gold coin in here?" The woman next to me about stroked out because that should of been her gold coin! As we discussed a way to "price" the coin, the woman stormed out in a seething rage. The cashier had already seen it and knew it was a repro (the back was marked Frank's Numismatic Tokens) and laughed about the joke and thanked me for the entertainment.
The other story was from my dad. He's an avid antique hunter/collector, and with 50+ years of hunting, knows his stuff well. He remembers a really pushy lady that would show up to sales hours before (no problem there) but would knock and expected to be let in early because she was there first. On top of being rude, demanding and generally unpleasant, she was shrill and would take stuff off hold tables and lie to get her way. She was crazy about antique dolls and my dad knew this. After some research in the Antiques Collector magazine he subscribed to, he was ready for this devil woman and set the stage.
At his yearly garage sale, he awaited the arrival of the "doll lady", knowing she couldn't resist his well-worded ad. She arrived shortly after the start time to do some quick rummaging of the wares. Unsatisfied with the offerings, she wanted to know if there were any dolls for sale. Not missing a beat, my dad explained that he had given his GRANDMOTHERS dolls away to the neighbors 5 year old daughter. He told her there were no Cabbage Patch Dolls, which were very popular at the time, just some porcelain "red cross" dolls that were old and dingy looking. I don't remember the manufacturer Dad mentioned but the "red cross" doll was quite rare and worth upwards of 3000.00 at the time.
After hearing my dad's response, she turned pale and just sort of wandered off. Ever since that day, when my dad bumped into her, he asked her if she had found any Cabbage Patch dolls lately
Have any fellow Tnet members exacted any revenge for those "hunters" who were so deserving of it? Share your stories, please! I could use the laughs this morning
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