http://www.worthpoint.com/worth-points/weekly-news-roundup-aug-31-sept Get the Most from Your Antiques & Collectibles Sun, 19 May 2013 20:03:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.worthpoint.com/worth-points/weekly-news-roundup-aug-31-sept/comment-page-1#comment-4390 jack Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:18:15 +0000 http://www.worthpoint.com/?p=2485803#comment-4390 The story of "The lucky purchase of the document in the PA. Antique Shop", is the equivalent of an advertising promotion for these merchandise venues. I worked in a GoodWill Thrift Shop during my college years and I equate the stores to be on par with lottery playing. The regular customers were waiting at the doors when we opened to check our new items just put out. Dealers and collectors were the regulars we knew by name. These people just cut the chase- if you won a lottery for a $1 investment you might get $100 or $500, etc. Then you go shopping, So these people go right to the merchandise- get it for a fewbucks and have the value of much more, often in the hundreds of dollars. The formula for success in the thrift shops is that they can let a valuable item pass through because those single items will magnetize customers and sales for all that other junk they sell. Our store did $800 a day on average. The story of “The lucky purchase of the document in the PA. Antique Shop”, is the equivalent of an advertising promotion for these merchandise venues. I worked in a GoodWill Thrift Shop during my college years and I equate the stores to be on par with lottery playing. The regular customers were waiting at the doors when we opened to check our new items just put out. Dealers and collectors were the regulars we knew by name. These people just cut the chase- if you won a lottery for a $1 investment you might get $100 or $500, etc. Then you go shopping, So these people go right to the merchandise- get it for a fewbucks and have the value of much more, often in the hundreds of dollars. The formula for success in the thrift shops is that they can let a valuable item pass through because those single items will magnetize customers and sales for all that other junk they sell. Our store did $800 a day on average.

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