Garage Sales, Thrift Stores, Antique Malls. THEY NOW KNOW WHAT THEY HAVE! - Collecting Tiki

TS Tom Slick Tiki Socialite The Beaches of South Bay, SoCal Joined: Aug 26, 2005 Posts: 1093	TS Tom Slick Posted posted on Sun, Jul 30, 2006 12:52 PM On 2006-07-30 10:10, twitch wrote: It's the Pickers! They arrive @ the thrifts before opening, head to the known areas and pick it clean for that day's eBay postings. I agree with this as well. 5 years ago(even less) everything revolving around tiki merch was much more affordable. Now because of the popularity of ebay, and the power of research on the internet,fulltime ebayers and part time sellers as well now have alot more knowledge about what they are selling. Just recently, there was a post about those resin desktop tikis being sold at "Dollar Tree" stores, and I personally went to 5 stores that were completly picked over! Now I know not everyone living in these areas are into tiki-ism, so what happened? Reality is that its most of OUR faults for posting information about "rare" mugs, paintings,etc...etc...Because it eventually comes back and bites us in the arse! It also doesn't help when there are really good deals, and certain people get the "greedy bug" in them and wind up buying everything on the shelf, leaving the broke or damaged items behind. I am a casual collector, buying only what I like for my personal collection, and not intending to resell items. I see others buying lots of the items and marking the price up via ebay. Sad to see society going this direction, but such is progress of life i suppose. I worked for a retail store recently and use to see the same vultures come in to pick through the HotWheels die cast cars looking for treasure hunts(rarer-limited hotwheel cars) and store exclusive hotwheels not found anywhere else. Mind you, these same people came in everyday and stay long enough to see if we had what they wanted. If we had cel phones on sale they wanted 50 phones, if there were 10 treasure hunts on the pegs, they would buy all 10 identical cars, just to resell on ebay. Now maybe its just me, but I see this as an Immoral act, and a total disrespect towards others who may have needed/wanted the item. What happened to peoples conscience's.....you know, the little "voice" inside the head that is supposed to tell you what is right and what is wrong!??????

On 2006-07-30 10:10, twitch wrote:
It's the Pickers!
They arrive @ the thrifts before opening, head to the known areas and pick it clean for that day's eBay postings.

I agree with this as well. 5 years ago(even less) everything revolving around tiki merch was much more affordable. Now because of the popularity of ebay, and the power of research on the internet,fulltime ebayers and part time sellers as well now have alot more knowledge about what they are selling. Just recently, there was a post about those resin desktop tikis being sold at "Dollar Tree" stores, and I personally went to 5 stores that were completly picked over! Now I know not everyone living in these areas are into tiki-ism, so what happened? Reality is that its most of OUR faults for posting information about "rare" mugs, paintings,etc...etc...Because it eventually comes back and bites us in the arse! It also doesn't help when there are really good deals, and certain people get the "greedy bug" in them and wind up buying everything on the shelf, leaving the broke or damaged items behind. I am a casual collector, buying only what I like for my personal collection, and not intending to resell items. I see others buying lots of the items and marking the price up via ebay. Sad to see society going this direction, but such is progress of life i suppose. I worked for a retail store recently and use to see the same vultures come in to pick through the HotWheels die cast cars looking for treasure hunts(rarer-limited hotwheel cars) and store exclusive hotwheels not found anywhere else. Mind you, these same people came in everyday and stay long enough to see if we had what they wanted. If we had cel phones on sale they wanted 50 phones, if there were 10 treasure hunts on the pegs, they would buy all 10 identical cars, just to resell on ebay. Now maybe its just me, but I see this as an Immoral act, and a total disrespect towards others who may have needed/wanted the item. What happened to peoples conscience's.....you know, the little "voice" inside the head that is supposed to tell you what is right and what is wrong!??????

Post #245771 by Tom Slick on Sun, Jul 30, 2006 12:52 PM