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glass man
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On PAWN STARS [does any one remember when they came on here before the show started and tried to get free promotional time?We gave em' a tough time...cause no one likes SPAM...before it was over we had renamed the show "PORN STARS"[8D]..AH GOOD TIMES!!] ANY HOO as I was saying ..they have their EXPERTS come in from time to time to help them with items they are not sure about...I wonder do the experts get paid?...Free air time for them? I find them interesting and ,though I don't always agree with them,they seem to know..stuff!
] JAMIE
] JAMIE
Robby Raccoon
Trash Digger
My parent loves those shows. I stopped watching T.V.. But I always wondered: Do they ever stop to look at a bottle or oil lamp? Signs and cycles are interesting, yes; but seriously?
glass man
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I started collecting bottles in 1974 and going to yard sales..flea markets..etc. . ..in all that time I have found many good items and bargains...but never week after week!! Plus never any thing that would make me lots of money!! Have ya'll? I mean the average of that luck just ain't there...wish it was!! If it was ...I would be rich now and you would be watching me on t.v. getting great deals week after week!! JAMIE
Robby Raccoon
Trash Digger
Only gold mine I know of for bottles is the closest lake to me. Last year almost every week I pulled out a keeper. But, by late last year it dwindled to nothing special. Even now I haven't found anything special yet. Seems the lake played out. Heh. In yard sales, the best I've found are early 1900s unembossed medicine bottles, but who sells their good stuff in a yard sale? Most of what I find goes into a bottle garden I just added to today. Other stuff heads to the shed. The best to my room. Never been to a flea market. I myself don't actually believe in luck. I believe in blessings and curses, but I wish you all the best of 'luck' meaning I hope God blesses you (Some people somehow get offended by that) so it means that, and it means "I hope your next hunt finds you in a gold mine, but it's not luck. Just chance. Whatever the past preserved." But! good luck to ya' all! The Pickers are professional solicitors. They don't sell you things, but come to your door knocking to buy stuff. And hand you a list of items they buy, which are items they sell and in reverse therefore are trying to sell you. Pawn Stars is one of thee most famous pawn shops around, and so people take their stuff there--especially if they think it's good-- and try and get a good buck out of it. It's not luck, it's all about how willing they are, publicity, and knowledge that gain them good items. Yard 'Sailors' just hope. Pickers poke. Pawn Stars steal (Figuratively) and the rest of us just do our thing. Be it hunt, yard 'sail', amateur picking--either hoping to check out their pole-building or search their woods--, and what not. Oh, forgot about antiquers.
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