RCO
Well-Known Member
you might of seen my other post about the lake of bays bottle and collection of bottles for sale i went and saw last week .
anyways i noticed a classifed add online for a bottle collection for sale that was only 15 minutes away from my house so i called the guy and went over the same day to look at it . the add did not show pictures of the bottles so i had no idea what he had , he did however mention over the phone he wanted $1000.00 but the add said he had a collection of bottles from 1900's so i though maybe he has some really rare and valuable bottles to justify the price or at least it be interesting to look at what he has .
but when i get there he mentions most of the bottles are covered in snow and not able to look at . he did have alot of bottles in the basement but 95% would be considered common and not desirable for collectors or the type of bottle they'd pay very little money if any to acquire and only like 2 or 3 bottles were actually 100 years old . most were 40's-50's , lots of common locals , pepsi , coca cola , 7 up nothing you wouldn't see anywhere else or find in any normal dump. his collection even included javex bottles and plain milk jugs with no names on them .
and yet even after i spent 20 minutes looking at them and pointing out there was nothing really valuable there he still looked at me with a straight face wanting $1000.00 cash and wouldn't even consider negotiating a lower price . but he did say if he couldn't sell it he was just going to keep the bottles so maybe he didn't really want to sell or bottles had way more sentimental value than retail value . i have no idea just though experience was a bit weird .
wondering if anyone else has ran into bottles or collections people wanted way too much money for
anyways i noticed a classifed add online for a bottle collection for sale that was only 15 minutes away from my house so i called the guy and went over the same day to look at it . the add did not show pictures of the bottles so i had no idea what he had , he did however mention over the phone he wanted $1000.00 but the add said he had a collection of bottles from 1900's so i though maybe he has some really rare and valuable bottles to justify the price or at least it be interesting to look at what he has .
but when i get there he mentions most of the bottles are covered in snow and not able to look at . he did have alot of bottles in the basement but 95% would be considered common and not desirable for collectors or the type of bottle they'd pay very little money if any to acquire and only like 2 or 3 bottles were actually 100 years old . most were 40's-50's , lots of common locals , pepsi , coca cola , 7 up nothing you wouldn't see anywhere else or find in any normal dump. his collection even included javex bottles and plain milk jugs with no names on them .
and yet even after i spent 20 minutes looking at them and pointing out there was nothing really valuable there he still looked at me with a straight face wanting $1000.00 cash and wouldn't even consider negotiating a lower price . but he did say if he couldn't sell it he was just going to keep the bottles so maybe he didn't really want to sell or bottles had way more sentimental value than retail value . i have no idea just though experience was a bit weird .
wondering if anyone else has ran into bottles or collections people wanted way too much money for
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