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February 11, 2010 21:22

I thought it would be interesting to bundle the most striking internet buy / sell stories into one topic. What assists you both positively and negatively in recent years with buying and selling via the internet. Possibly educational but certainly entertaining to hear the stories of both sellers and buyers (who will of course often be both).
My first example (I have an inexhaustible source), not educational but fun: a collector who wanted to trade a 1 year old scooter for a facsimile comic book. Really happened. I didn't agree but I was flabbergasted for a while ..

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February 12, 2010 00:53

most common
I have top items in the shed
interested
when inquiring they are just the standard wretch from the 80s
will not tire you with the excuses that people put up

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February 12, 2010 06:11

But also (positive)
Three Indonesian Indian series albums from Indonesia obtained without any problems. Smelled like the mothballs.

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February 12, 2010 08:34

What I got once:
Unfortunately I have to give you the money back, because my sister has lost the item and she cannot find it anywhere.

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February 12, 2010 13:58

The best thing is when you pick up something
and you are warmly welcomed with coffee

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An acquaintance of mine drives into a street, sees a garbage man tipping a box into the garbage truck, sees comic books rolling out. Holes out the car and manages to get the second box. Goes to a well-known comic store and to his utter amazement gets fl 1500 for the content. So I myself had been to that well-known comic store a little earlier and heard the same story not knowing that it belonged to my acquaintance. Was told that it contained such beautiful hardcover Lombards that they could even be exchanged with the owner's own copies. The content had a value of fright not fl 10000 .
When I got my knowledge while enjoying a drink in the cafe around the corner told what the value was, he was very ill. I could and would have given him much more for it.

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  • February 13, 2010 13:15
February 13, 2010 13:15

Morits's story is a classic! Fortunately some of the albums have been preserved.
Example of lazy rather than tired.
This week happens: I sell something, the recipient gives a message if I also want to e-mail the photos. Why do I ask. Because it has to be resold ..

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February 14, 2010 10:05

I found a suske and sure the bond prize willy vandersteen for 1 euro at the thrift store

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Morits's story is a classic! Fortunately some of the albums have been preserved.
It makes you think: how many valuable things, which are really valuable in reality, were just thrown away as junk.

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February 21, 2010 13:50

Afterwards, as far as I gathered, it was a mother cleaning out her son's room, who had put the things near the curb. Whether that was malicious or not I unfortunately do not know.
Furthermore, not everyone realizes the value of collectible items, whether they are stamps (I have had a package with about 30 different stamps on it from the 50s to the 90s. The value of the stamps was many times higher than the face value, unfortunately) or pre-war biscuit tins.

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February 22, 2010 13:03

I sometimes bought 3 double albums from turn up the base at the thrift store for about 2 euros, sold through the marketplace for 50 euros!
the story of morrits sounds familiar.
a collector I once met at a thrift store said that he once took 3 moving boxes of jazz and blues LPs from a container in Amsterdam.
this included many albums from the blue note label, and most albums from the 1950s and early 1960s.
why do I never come across this now :-)

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February 22, 2010 13:40

During an episode of Kunst en Kitsch there were also people who had bought things at a thrift store or on a flea market for max 5 euros and could insure for 1000 to 10000 euros.
Or a nice legacy of a value of 50000 euro. : P
Fill me a moving box like that, but I never get that lucky

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February 22, 2010 16:53

The strongest stories are from before the internet age. Nowadays everyone disposes of their waste first on Marktplaats.

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February 22, 2010 19:39

That's true, 90% is often "junk." You will sometimes find the nice things at a market or in a "specialty store".

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February 24, 2010 19:46

Ever bought an item in the USA via eBay. After payment, the seller did not respond, despite repeated requests. Paypal did not yet have the service to refund undelivered items, so I lost my 10 euros.
After a year unexpectedly an email from the seller that he was back online, was updating all his old email and whether I still wanted the item or my money back. I still wanted the item and got it sent via airmail within a week.
Asked why it took so long, the seller was found to have spent a year in prison for a drug-related offense. Then explained to him the NL circumstances. I don't know if he emigrated.

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