What would you do?

[quadcitypickers]

Imagine you went to an estate sale and they had flats of jewelry for $1/ea.

You've been going to this company's sales for years and always get good deals.

You pull out a big men's 10k gold ring, and go to pay. They look over what you bought, and pull the ring out, saying "oh, we must have put that in there by mistake" and now they want $250 for it.

Would you bite the hand that feeds and complain, or just let it go?

[bonjourami]

Who would you complain to?

[heckofagame]

I would lob the ring into the neighbor's yard and leave. 

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

@quadcitypickers 

Well I wouldn't bite their hand but I would bite my lip a bit. With gold prices high, it probably was an error on the sellers end and I would understand if they took it back.

[a_c_green]

I would have bought the whole flat for $1 and not called attention to the item that had caught my eye.

[quadcitypickers]

I meant to say $1 per item, not flat lol.

[quadcitypickers]

The company who puts the estate sale on. They are usually the ones who go through and price everything. Sometimes the owner/executor of the estate has some say in pricing, but not always.

[splendidthreads]

If it was a company I bought from a lot, I'd protect our relationship and bite my tongue.  Maybe make a joke letting them know there were no hard feelings.  Good stuff always comes back around, and good sources are hard to find.

If it wasn't, I'd probably say something in a nice way just to make a point, but also totally get it and understand their position.  And grumble all the way home about the one that got away! 🙂

[tsme35]

I just had something like that happen last month, I buy a lot of gear from this guy, close to half my inventory each year. I bought over 200 fishing lures, he called the next day and ask for 3 lures back saying they were promised to someone else, they were worth about $200-300.

 I'm not going to bite the hand that feeds me, I'll make over a grand off the 200 I got and thousands I make every year. He even offer to split them 3 ways when the other guy sells them, I declined. I had auctions last week with only 20 lures and made $100 over what I paid for them all and have 180 to go. He felt bad about it but it just shows my integrity and probably get a better deal on the next lot he gets.

[quadcitypickers]

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@tsme35 wrote:

he called the next day and ask for 3 lures back saying they were promised to someone else,

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That's really weird. Usually most sales have a holding table. Did he mix them up with yours?

[ajs_coins_and_alchemy]

Here is how I look at it ... You need them a heck of a lot more than they need you....

I regularly buy from a handful of sources, when I look back, I see I've spent $5-$10k with a good number of these sources, and in the end, I realize that if our relationship ends ... I will have lost a sizeable source, and other buyers will happily fill the void that I left and they won't even notice I'm gone.

I believe the hardest part of resale is sourcing, so you protect your sourcing opportunities as they are the golden eggs. Don't bite the hand that feeds you...

[meme6253]

You should not have expected to get a 10k gold ring for $1

[inhawaii]

I would DEMAND they make good on it, but nicely.

I'm a male Karen when it comes to things like this.

[redlinear]

Depends.    
If an employee of the Sale Company pulled it out.   I'd make one heck of scene.
If an estate owner pulled it out, I'd let it go.

[monster-deals]

You avoid that by buying a lot of stuff and checking out when there is a line, and knowing your people's names and greeting them by name. Bringing coffee doesn't hurt either.

Then count them in front of the cashier...1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,  pieces of $1 costume jewelry.

It is possible that the estate sale people did not put that in there but another customer picked it up and bailed on it.

One place tried up-charge me on priced items twice. I gave them the benfit of the doubt but the 3rd time I made a stink in line.

Do your own work Brenda, you aren't going to have me pick out the expensive stuff because you are lazy.

They did not want to play ball so in a packed house I told them to go do a thing in a not nice way. Talked to another guy that came out empty handed and they tried doing the same thing to him. He said he threw his stuff on the floor and walked out.

Never went back. I was a good $500 a month for them.

Now they maybe do 5 estate sales a year insted of like 20.

I don't hunt in that town anymore since I moved anyway.