$2 bag of rings

jochart · Jan 11, 2015

I went to a very poorly advertised private estate sale on Friday morning. I got there a little after 8 am and they were just opening. Only 2 other people were there and they were looking over some motorcycle stuff. I had the whole inside of the house to myself and ended up spending $172 on some of the best buys I've had in the last couple years. I bought a bag of rings for $2. Inside were 4 gold rings (2 x 14k, 2 x 10k), 12 silver rings and a bunch of avon/costume rings. Also bought a large box of coins, a silverplate flatware set, portable mastercool, a bag of watches and some ornate iron Eiffel towers (wife likes Paris related things).

hikerdude · Jan 11, 2015

Way to go. I guess you have to go to estate sales to find such great deal. I've been to a few, but have never found anything I liked. Was there silver in the money bags?

signal · Jan 11, 2015

How did you find out about the estate sale? What state?

2Minnesota · Jan 11, 2015

Awesome buys! I would love to find a bag of rings like that for $2!!

Bigmike2334 · Jan 11, 2015

Could you give us a list of what the beautiful box of coins yielded?? Can't wait to hear that's an awesome score and the rings for 2.00 can't ask for a better day!

jochart · Jan 11, 2015

sale was listed as a garage sale in los angeles, but they were selling almost the entire contents of the house, which makes it an estate sale in my book. Bad neighborhood probably kept a lot of people away. Haven't went through all the coins yet, but here's what I found so far: 2 morgans, 2 silver ikes, 10 clad ikes, 31 sb and sac dollars, 12 silver halfs, 6 clad halfs, 4 silver quarters, buffalo nickels, war nickels, silver dimes, ih pennies and wheats. lots of coins in the wraps were BU or AU.

vpnavy · Jan 12, 2015

Nice buys. Thanks for sharing...

pong12211 · Jan 12, 2015

Looks like a great buy to me. Thanks for sharing and congrats on the success.

JustinNH · Jan 12, 2015

Wow sounds great!

cyberdan · Jan 12, 2015

jochart said:
sale was listed as a garage sale in los angeles,

What city in LA?
If you got there when opening then all the gang-bangers were passed out, asleep or dead.

I stay out of LA and the burbs. Not because of the bangers but because of the traffic.

Great buy.

diggummup · Jan 12, 2015

Very nice. I will be concentrating more on coins and jewelry this year myself.

jochart · Jan 12, 2015

north LA county, Palmdale

bigcaddy64 · Jan 13, 2015

I went to something similar this past weekend in Weschester. Ad stated lots of machine tools and other tool stuff. Ifigured i would be a zoo but I ended up hanging out in the light rain with 1 other person until it opened. There might of been 10 people there while I shopped and I made out like a bandit.

I have no idea why there wasn't a mob waiting to storm the garage and raid the boxes. It was a somewhat nice area but the lack of advertising might of made it invisible to most