Another Pushy Buyer

debodun

debodun

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way upstate in New York, USA
A guy saw my ad for a moving sale for this weekend and asked if he could come today and look. Of course, any chance to sell thing I will agree to. You'd think I'd have learned my lesson by now. Once he got his foot in the door and took a perfunctory look at what was for sale and not interested in that, he managed to get in other parts of the house despite my admonitions that nothing was for sale in the other rooms.

He didn't want anything that I had out, he wanted the things I consider family heirlooms. Even some I agreed to sell him, he offered a paltry amount so I refused. I've been selling wooden crates for $15 apiece, but he wouldn't give me $5 for the other six I have (that $5 for all, not for each). Then he wanted this statue which IS a family heirloom, but when I told him I turned down an offer of $350, he quickly lost interest.

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Then he asked if I had anything out in the garage, so we went out there. He immediately grabbed my dad's tackle box and started pulling out the contents. I said that I was going to give that to my cousin to keep in the family since some of the lures were my grandfather's.

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He just shoved everything back in the tackle box and jammed the lid down. I finally spoke sharply to him about how rough he was with my things. He tossed the box to me and said for me to put it back the way I wanted. He finally bought an old shovel and pitchfork for $2. That was a hard-won couple of bucks.
 

debodun said:
A guy saw my ad for a moving sale for this weekend and asked if he could come today and look. Of course, any chance to sell thing I will agree to. You'd think I'd have learned my lesson by now. Once he got his foot in the door and took a perfunctory look at what was for sale and not interested in that, he managed to get in other parts of the house despite my admonitions that nothing was for sale in the other rooms.

He didn't want anything that I had out, he wanted the things I consider family heirlooms. Even some I agreed to sell him, he offered a paltry amount so I refused. I've been selling wooden crates for $15 apiece, but he wouldn't give me $5 for the other six I have (that $5 for all, not for each). Then he wanted this statue which IS a family heirloom, but when I told him I turned down an offer of $350, he quickly lost interest.

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Then he asked if I had anything out in the garage, so we went out there. He immediately grabbed my dad's tackle box and started pulling out the contents. I said that I was going to give that to my cousin to keep in the family since some of the lures were my grandfather's.

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He just shoved everything back in the tackle box and jammed the lid down. I finally spoke sharply to him about how rough he was with my things. He tossed the box to me and said for me to put it back the way I wanted. He finally bought an old shovel and pitchfork for $2. That was a hard-won couple of bucks.
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Be very careful, since he insisted on going through your home without your permission he may have been casing your contents to break in later and steal.

Start taking pictures of people coming into your home. A great deterrent to a would be thief.
 
Dealers tip their hand by wanting to get there before anyone else and hope they find a person that doesn't know the value of what they have.
He said I had "dealer prices". To me that means I am in the neighborhood of what a dealer would want if he/she had the item for sale.
 
bowmore said:
I cannot believe you put up with all that nonsense for a paltry $2 sale. I think you ought to box it all up and give it to Goodwill or some other organization.
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I agree.

IMO the emphasis should be on getting the house on the market.

The costs associated with owning the house each month for taxes, utilities, insurance and maintenance will quickly offset the small
amount to be gained from the sale of the contents.

This doesn’t even take into account the lost interest/dividends each month from the equity tied up in the house.
 
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Gary O' said:
Oh, HELL no!

Deb has me on ignore
You guys best get her head on straight....please
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The pics of her home over the past year are depressing, coupled with the description of cat urine soaked boxes that have been in place for years screams help is needed .

I'm on ignore too but get a kick out of Deb's posts.
Really trying to help Deb is what most do when responding. But as is evident in her responses help is not what Deb wants. I suspect it's attention by posting pics of items most would have trashed years ago.

If Deb was a male I wonder if most of the responses would be the same?
 
Deb, do you have someone there with you when you have strangers come to view your items? There are too many evil, crazy people out there for you to let someone into your home while you're there alone! You're so busy wanting to make money but none of it will do you any good if you're dead! Sorry...sometimes I may be too blunt. :confused:
 
As soon as he stepped into the private part of your home without permission, I would have been worried.

Maybe this is the time to get a cell phone. If a stranger arrives, pretend your talking, pretend to take a photo and tell them you do this for anyone who enters the house when your brother has to be out of the house for a bit. Lie, for your own safety.

If you’re going to be leaving things in the old house and going back & forth to sell them, you’ll need a phone.
 

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