Possible goldmine

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Superduper

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Ok, but we're just saying.... the most successful collectors here just DO and not talk or think or discuss it on the internet beforehand. Hesitation usually just results in lost opportunities, especially the really good deals. If you really want to buy them, you'll have to go get them anyhow. I can't count the number of times I see deals get snatched from under my very nose as I hesitate. Proactive wheelers and dealers get the cake. The rest gets the crumbs. If granny told you that she can barely make out the model# and it's a Conion C100 and it's gold color, you'd be beating down a path to her door, right now, right? I hear people say all the time... "if it's meant to be, then it will be." I say Boloney. As I said, the most successful collectors make their own luck, and create their own fate/destiny. :-D
 
LJV

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I agree, and I am fighting my limitations every day, but there are things that I can do, and things that I can't. I'm not a collector yet, perhaps I'll become one, perhaps not, but if my condition turns out to be a serious limitation, than it will remain just another dream. It wouldn't be the first, and I'll treat it as I've treated other unfortunate things in life.

If she'd mentioned gold Conion... I'd still have same possibilities. If she can't read the manufacturer and the model for days or have someone to read it for her, despite also having all the manuals, than I find it a bit fishy. I mean, we've talked 3 times, if she can read ads in the newspapers and use a cell phone, it is impossible that she can't read brand and model, if not from bbox front or back cover, than from the manual front page, right?
 
devol-toni

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Superduper said:
Ok, but we're just saying.... the most successful collectors here just DO and not talk or think or discuss it on the internet beforehand. Hesitation usually just results in lost opportunities, especially the really good deals. If you really want to buy them, you'll have to go get them anyhow. I can't count the number of times I see deals get snatched from under my very nose as I hesitate. Proactive wheelers and dealers get the cake. The rest gets the crumbs. If granny told you that she can barely make out the model# and it's a Conion C100 and it's gold color, you'd be beating down a path to her door, right now, right? I hear people say all the time... "if it's meant to be, then it will be." I say Boloney. As I said, the most successful collectors make their own luck, and create their own fate/destiny. :-D
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:agree:

Hey LJV, you may to ask some of your relatives or friends to go and check what kind of boomboxes the granny have. :-)
 
blu_fuz

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Luck is when preperation meets opportunity. The only way to get the deal, like Superduper already mentioned, is to not hesitate. If you really thought there was GOLD somewhere, would you have the owner go look at the gold, weigh it, take a picture of it, have their son look at it, then tell you abou it? NO WAY!

If I was you, call your best buddy, tell him you will buy lunch/brews if he drives you there and helps you out.
 
LJV

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Got the info at last. She overshot almost a whole decade with the time when she held and closed the store. Those are very late 80s or early 90s "brands" like "Intenacional" "First" "Kamacrown"... :-/

She wanted to sell the lot, including walkmans and phones in order to get the rid of it, since it is almost worthless now. Most likely, she was able to read the brands at the first place, but pretended to be clueless, hoping that one who actually takes a trip to her, decides to buy at least something, simply not to return with wasted money and time. She lives in a small town, where people know each-other, so only an outsider not knowing what she sold could have got hooked. I have a relative living over there, but now I won't bother with her stock anymore.

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LJV

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THAFUZZ said:
Awe man! :thumbsdown: Sorry to hear that. Not even spare parts? Like antennas, motors, belts?
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No., they are all brand new, taken out of the boxes, because the boxes take take too much space, and placed as they come with protective wrapping in the closet, together with manuals.
 
MasterBlaster84

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Superduper said:
Why are you messing around with photos, description, etc? Just go and get them (or pass if they are eggs). Grandma is not going to photo and do the internet thing... and the more people get involved, the more opinions, etc. Just go already.
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That's exactly what I was thinking as I'm reading all the posts. :-D
I would have been there ASAP so as not to give her a chance to find out what she has just in case she really has something good.

Sounds like it worked out for the best for you and you saved the trip, we sure had high hopes. :sad:
 
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