jerseyben
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Was the 2nd person at an "out of the way" Friday yard sale this morning and it paid off!
Saw the ad on CL yesterday and it listed jewelry. I knew it was in a "dumpy" town that isn't really near anything exciting so I figured I would check it out and being on a Friday I hoped competition would be low.
Went straight to the jewelry and saw an open box and a shopping bag filled with jewelry! Started combing through it all and the woman running the sale was very pleasant and chatted with me the whole time. She actually said "there might be some gold in there"! After about 10 mins I picked out a small handful of good stuff and asked how much. She said $2. Well, I decided to try something new. With customers closing in on the jewelry and a STRONG suspicion that there might be more gold in the large bag that I had missed, I asked the woman how much for everything. She replied $20. SOLD!
Got it home and put the pile of 14k I had already picked out aside and even 2 sterling items. I then went through the large bag of goodies and picked out the stuff I had missed. Took almost 2 hours!
Totals:
-23.6 grams of sterling
-1.6 grams of 10k
-9.3 grams of 14k
The pile next to the box was found at the sale and in the box was found when I got home. The pile on the scale was all found when I got home!
Saw the ad on CL yesterday and it listed jewelry. I knew it was in a "dumpy" town that isn't really near anything exciting so I figured I would check it out and being on a Friday I hoped competition would be low.
Went straight to the jewelry and saw an open box and a shopping bag filled with jewelry! Started combing through it all and the woman running the sale was very pleasant and chatted with me the whole time. She actually said "there might be some gold in there"! After about 10 mins I picked out a small handful of good stuff and asked how much. She said $2. Well, I decided to try something new. With customers closing in on the jewelry and a STRONG suspicion that there might be more gold in the large bag that I had missed, I asked the woman how much for everything. She replied $20. SOLD!
Got it home and put the pile of 14k I had already picked out aside and even 2 sterling items. I then went through the large bag of goodies and picked out the stuff I had missed. Took almost 2 hours!
Totals:
-23.6 grams of sterling
-1.6 grams of 10k
-9.3 grams of 14k
The pile next to the box was found at the sale and in the box was found when I got home. The pile on the scale was all found when I got home!
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, I never find the big jewelry lots for some reason. I did find an 18k 6.4g necklace and a 14k ring 2.05g and 14k 2.52g pendant but I paid $100 for it all. I got a Tiffany sterling heart lariat necklace for $5 last week though, identical to this one-
