glass man
Well-Known Member
I wonder how many of you have set up at a bottle show and had something priced cheap and you knew it...yet someone always wants to give you even less?
For instance:I once had a mint 1915 coke bottle and had it priced for 3 dollars..not bad huh? Well no one snapped it up...Finnaly I sold it for buck fity...
A couple years ago we needed money [per usual] and I had a mint pint o.p. usual green urn/cornocopia flask that was loaded with seed bubbles and so crooked it could hardly stand up.a great example...I started at 200 bucks...high maybe..but it was an exceptional example...A man [big time collector] had decided to branch out into flasks and wanted to know if he could take the flask outside in the sun to check it out better...I trusted him..known him for years..well Nina happened to be out there and saw him with another collecter telling the potential buyer"I know flasks and this is a great one for what it is".GROOVY!
He comes back and we get down to the haggling part we all love so dearly...but I swear it seems sometime people can smell you need money...I take it all the way down to $125.....and he wants it for a dollar less!![]So he got it for $124[:-]...now it was mine to do as I wanted..but dang!!
I myself love a great deal...but many times I have seen a bottle I knew was already cheap and just paid for it...once I even gave a bit more money for a bottle and told the person it was worth much more....but I know that may just seem dumb to some...but then that's me![8D]
I ain't complaining..too much..cause in the end I have made money over all on buying and selling and every one has to take less then they gave for a bottle at times...the way it goes...a starting collector better know these things right from the start...but it just befuddles me[be-fuddle..a good word[8|]] sometime at how low some one wants to give for something...well free of course...I have put for free ,cheap things on my table at times just to see if any one notices...also hopefully a kid will see it..I kinda help them...a few times it was hard to convince people that an item was actually free!![]PEACE!JAMIE
For instance:I once had a mint 1915 coke bottle and had it priced for 3 dollars..not bad huh? Well no one snapped it up...Finnaly I sold it for buck fity...
A couple years ago we needed money [per usual] and I had a mint pint o.p. usual green urn/cornocopia flask that was loaded with seed bubbles and so crooked it could hardly stand up.a great example...I started at 200 bucks...high maybe..but it was an exceptional example...A man [big time collector] had decided to branch out into flasks and wanted to know if he could take the flask outside in the sun to check it out better...I trusted him..known him for years..well Nina happened to be out there and saw him with another collecter telling the potential buyer"I know flasks and this is a great one for what it is".GROOVY!
He comes back and we get down to the haggling part we all love so dearly...but I swear it seems sometime people can smell you need money...I take it all the way down to $125.....and he wants it for a dollar less!![]So he got it for $124[:-]...now it was mine to do as I wanted..but dang!!
I myself love a great deal...but many times I have seen a bottle I knew was already cheap and just paid for it...once I even gave a bit more money for a bottle and told the person it was worth much more....but I know that may just seem dumb to some...but then that's me![8D]
I ain't complaining..too much..cause in the end I have made money over all on buying and selling and every one has to take less then they gave for a bottle at times...the way it goes...a starting collector better know these things right from the start...but it just befuddles me[be-fuddle..a good word[8|]] sometime at how low some one wants to give for something...well free of course...I have put for free ,cheap things on my table at times just to see if any one notices...also hopefully a kid will see it..I kinda help them...a few times it was hard to convince people that an item was actually free!![]PEACE!JAMIE