I'm Banned From a Local Thrift Store

[MIB41]

When somebody buys something from me for resell I DO NOT CARE. All I care is that I get the price that I want. What does it frickin' matter? What you quickly realize in this business if you've been at it awhile is that these things have RELATIVE value. There is no EXACT value on an item. The same item in two different dealers hands can be WORTH different amounts. Certain dealers can get more for the same item than you can. When I'm selling, all I want is the money I think I can get out of an item. If somebody thinks they can get more GOOD FOR THEM.

People need to relax and just sell their stupid stuff and move on to the next.......

Exactly. If I owned a thrift store and knew someone was buying my stuff and selling it for a better price, then I would do the research and find out what these things are going for and price up accordingly. I don't understand the logic in banning someone who is consistently coming into my store to buy things at the prices I ask. When a transaction is done, the objective has been reached between buyer and seller. If the seller is not happy, then he/she only has themselves to blame. Plus aren't most goods obtained at a thrift store given to them? It seems to me the profit margin would still be much better for the thrift store than the guy re-selling it who had to pay something upfront. Not sure where the angst comes from.

[ODBJBG]

Sort of reminds me of the story of Walt Flannigan, manager of Jay & Silent Bob's Secret Stash. In the early days of the stash, Walt would skip odering from Diamond Distrubators and would buy stuff from the local Suncoast to resell at the stash. He would keep the sales slips and return any unsold stuff back to Suncoast, Walmart, TRU, etc. The employees and store managers eventually figured out what he was doing and a few of them attempted to ban him from their stores, so he started sending his buddies out to do his "dirty work" for him.

You never see that on Comic Book Men!

[Bionicfanboy66]

Sort of reminds me of the story of Walt Flannigan, manager of Jay & Silent Bob's Secret Stash. In the early days of the stash, Walt would skip odering from Diamond Distrubators and would buy stuff from the local Suncoast to resell at the stash. He would keep the sales slips and return any unsold stuff back to Suncoast, Walmart, TRU, etc. The employees and store managers eventually figured out what he was doing and a few of them attempted to ban him from their stores, so he started sending his buddies out to do his "dirty work" for him.

[megoat]

"How am I supposed to make any money reselling this if I have to pay you xxx for it?"
A constant complaint at the shop.

I can't stand it when dealers moan like this. If what you are looking at is priced too high for resale, then MOVE ON. I pass on stuff EVERY DAY that is priced too high. Guess what? I buy the stuff that isn't.

Nobody owes you anything.

[toys2cool]

Those are nice. I am hunting NES like crazy. The amount of wanted ads for old video game stuff is by far bigger than wanted ads for toys though and a few summers ago, I would find an NES almost every weekend. It's getting tougher now and since I have a store, I can now buy common carts and sell them at $6 each. Unlike on eBay where it's not worth the time.

I see games there every single day...NES,SNES, genesis, N64 , PS1-PS3...everything comes from New Jersey

[Bill]

"How am I supposed to make any money reselling this if I have to pay you xxx for it?"
A constant complaint at the shop.

[megoat]

When somebody buys something from me for resell I DO NOT CARE. All I care is that I get the price that I want. What does it frickin' matter? What you quickly realize in this business if you've been at it awhile is that these things have RELATIVE value. There is no EXACT value on an item. The same item in two different dealers hands can be WORTH different amounts. Certain dealers can get more for the same item than you can. When I'm selling, all I want is the money I think I can get out of an item. If somebody thinks they can get more GOOD FOR THEM.

People need to relax and just sell their stupid stuff and move on to the next.......

[Figuremod73]

He had that booth for at least a few years so I suspect so. I havent seen him recently though.

One neat thing that he did sell was a combo system that could play NES, SNES, and Genesis. I wouldnt mind having one of those.

[Bill]

Would he actually get those prices????

[Figuremod73]

I knew a guy at the flea market who had a booth and would sell SMB3 and other NES games for $15 and up. I never understood that.

[Bill]

I work at a Thrift Store (church based, part of a homeless project) and people regularly complain because that's what people do. One donor gave us the entire contents of his house, well the executor gave it to us in exchange for cleaning up after we removed the furniture. It was about 16 pieces, mixed Stickley and Lambert. It took us a good three months to move it all, and I was sad that none of them were moved in my direction, but we were able to sell about 80% in three months and brought in about 12k. Now granted some days we're nothing but garbagemen, all in the name of "donations" for the homeless, but every once in awhile we'll get a great score and hold out for some good money. We have everything from a $2,500 Stickley recliner down to a $5 particle board nightstand, so there's something for everyone but inevitably someone will complain about the pricing. We regularly use eBay completed auctions for our price ranges on something that's worth actually looking up, and after a few weeks the price may come down, but we always turn stuff over, always. I'm on the maintenance side of the business as of this week, but I truly enjoyed my year at the store, and the rest of the team all have a great passion for junk as well, so between the five of us someone had just about every category covered. I even started my own vintage toys section, because we're not allowed to sell modern toys because of contaminate issues, and got it started off with some of my own stuff just to get the ball rolling. There was just not anyone there before me with knowledge of old toys, a sector that I now leave in the hands of my trusted friend Dave.
Anyway, those kinda stores are fun, it sucks that your local shops are always the same guy. Eventually he will have burned all the landlords in town and no one will rent to him anymore.

[Den82]

by the way i ended up picking up a nintendo with 1 controller for $12.99, a super nes for $20 w/ 2 controllers and some games..Super Mario 3 , 2 legend of zelda's (gold case games), battletoads,TMNT 2,Dragon warrior ,simon's quest 2 and a few more for $2.95 each...that's the set prices next door..I left

Double dragon
Goonies 2
loki
mario 1/duckhunt/ some motor bike game
jordan vs Bird
wheel of fortune

and like 10 more

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Those are nice. I am hunting NES like crazy. The amount of wanted ads for old video game stuff is by far bigger than wanted ads for toys though and a few summers ago, I would find an NES almost every weekend. It's getting tougher now and since I have a store, I can now buy common carts and sell them at $6 each. Unlike on eBay where it's not worth the time.

[toys2cool]

I heard one story recently of a reseller pretending he was mildly retarded to rip off a seller for years.

I should try that

[Den82]

Yeah, well. That's why these people go out of business. They can blame the bad economy, people being cheap, cheap dealers and resellers, but really it's them. All these places near me are cluttered, dirty merchandise, thrown around, extremely bad attitudes, etc. It's as if they want to make a ton of money without any effort whatsoever. Most of them are ran by storage auction buyers. One guy throws out great stuff while he tries to get top dollar for junk. He THREW G1 Transformers and TMNT figures in his dumpster!

They have to realize people go into these kind of stores for bargains and instead of whining that reputable dealers are getting high prices, clean your stuff up and sell it on eBay and if you do, keep in a private stash. Don't let people who patronize you see it and then refuse to sell it to them. As if they are not good enough.

The bottomline is I offered him flat out 50% with no lies or hassles at all. I never went to him with some bull crap like "my son likes these games, but we are can't afford these prices" or played the role of the super fan nerd boy collector or the naive fool. If I tried any of that, I would understand a person getting ****ed.

I heard one story recently of a reseller pretending he was mildly retarded to rip off a seller for years.

[toys2cool]

by the way i ended up picking up a nintendo with 1 controller for $12.99, a super nes for $20 w/ 2 controllers and some games..Super Mario 3 , 2 legend of zelda's (gold case games), battletoads,TMNT 2,Dragon warrior ,simon's quest 2 and a few more for $2.95 each...that's the set prices next door..I left

Double dragon
Goonies 2
loki
mario 1/duckhunt/ some motor bike game
jordan vs Bird
wheel of fortune

and like 10 more

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