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The only ettiqiette I guess would be not to do stereotypical black friday behavior or ninja snatch stuff.
For the last 7 months my husband and I have come up empty whenever we go thrifting for ponies. I got to the point where I was starting to thinking that people just weren't donating their ponies down here. This week my husband heard of a good lead on ponies, but when he got to the thrift store he found they were sold. To be sweet he hit up a few more thrift stores on his way home for me. No ponies anywhere to be had, but he did get the same story from multiple thrift stores. The Story: A woman and her mechanic husband make often trips down from upstate to buy up ponies. The Question: What's the etiquette when pony hunting outside your home area? What do you do when you find a specific person is picking your local hunting ground clean on a regular basis?It seems odd for someone to travel all the way to the nearly southern part of South Carolina for ponies. If I wanted to I suppose I could spend the 3-4 hours a day going to all the thrift store in my area, but I really don't have the time or gas money to do that. Honestly, I prefer not to go thrifting more than every other week if I can help it, since I usually go with my husband, and he's got other stuff he has to do on weekends. Its really disheartening trip after trip, month after month to not find anything at all. If I could figure out who this person is than I'd ask about maybe becoming pony hunting buddies. I'm sure my husband is tired of looking for ponies with me anyways. Anyone have any thoughts on it?
There is someone in my area that buys EVERYTHING just to resell. She doesn't collect, just buys is all up and keeps it in containers and lists on ebay. That really annoys me, as a collector, but I don't have more of a right to them than she does even though I don't like that she does it.My husband says "It's kill or be killed!" looking for vintage stuff in the wild.
Yeah, the Tacoma Goodwill sells all it's G1 ponies on shopgoodwill.com. I've found a few at the Seattle Ballard Value Village--but very few and far between. They usually have a couple G3s, but I don't actively collect those.
Quote from: LadyMoondancer on May 23, 2016, 03:02:16 PMYeah, the Tacoma Goodwill sells all it's G1 ponies on shopgoodwill.com. I've found a few at the Seattle Ballard Value Village--but very few and far between. They usually have a couple G3s, but I don't actively collect those.Same- I've seen a sprinkling of G3s and G4 (plush mostly) at the Seattle Goodwill downtown, and I used to see G3s here and there at the Value Village in Capitol Hill (not sure it is there anymore) but I don't collect them. NEVER G1s.
There is someone in my area that buys EVERYTHING just to resell. She doesn't collect, just buys is all up and keeps it in containers and lists on ebay.
I was once maybe a bit discourteous at a yard sale event. This lady kept getting to every yard sale just seconds before me and snatching up every single piece of Disney merchandise right before I could lay my hands on it (I'm still mad about some cool ceramic figures she got!). She would then tell each and every sales person that she was buying this stuff to decorate a room for her UNBORN CHILD. I mean, COME ON, she didn't even have a child yet! And she was buying ceramic figures for this not-yet-even-a-baby! So I skipped a yard sale so I could start buying literally everything Disney -- even crap I didn't want. Yeah, it was a ridiculous act on my part, but I was mad at that hoarder-mother-to-be.