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Excuse Me, Does Your Cow Need a
Tatoo?
Garage Sale and Ebay Junkies Pay Heed!
Recently I went hunting for odds and ends that I could re-sell
at a garage sale or on E-bay. Not being that knowledgeable on
collectibles, I go by intuition and luck in making my choices.
Most of the items I buy for re-sale cost me less than $10.00.
If you are familiar with the term "economies of scale", you can
see why I will never get rich with this approach. Anyway, how
does a tattoo kit enter this scenario?
As I pawed through one antique shop, an attractive wooden box
with a tiny brass latch caught my eye. Maybe it was the words
on the top of the box that caught my attention. They stated:
Cow Tattoo Kit. It was marked $25.00 dollars. Now, I knew that
cows kept up with the latest fashions, but a cow tattoo kit? I
was mesmerized.
I opened the box and there was the neatest ear tattoo kit a cow
ever saw. No, I didn't know cows had their ears tattooed for
identification purposes, but years ago it was the thing to do.
The complete contents of the box included a bottle of ink, two
small containers filled with letters and numbers, and a
pliers-like hand tool for tattooing the cow's ear.
So here I was, infatuated with a $25.00 dollar item which was
considerably over the budget of a junk buyer like me. I made a
$20.00 offer which was promptly accepted and took the my unique
trophy home.
As I drove by area dairy farms on the way, I gazed at the barns
and envisioned a cow tattoo expert at work. Infinite designs
danced through my head: EAT MORE PORK was one I imagined a cow
might request. My kit was not destined for a tattoo parlor; it
was to be listed on E-bay.
So many times you think you have a winner, but this time I was
convinced that I had one with this attractive box and unusual
contents. I opened the bidding at $20.00 but before long bids
from around the country drove the price over the century mark.
The winning bidder paid $113.00 for the kit.
A few days after I mailed the kit to the winning bidder, I
received a beautiful letter praising me for the fine item I had
sold them. These people owned a large farm and collected farm
related memorabilia. The nice thing about selling items to
collectors like the farm family who bought the tattoo kit is
that they are usually thrilled to acquire your offering.
Everyone ends up a winner---- how can you beat
that?
Garage Sale and Ebay hunters run into some unsual items.
These items may turn out to be worth their weight in gold as
this discovery shows!
by John Lundgren -
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John Lundgren is an avid garage sale hound who hunts down the
best bargains he an find. He takes these finds and places them
on Ebay or in his own garage sale.
Source: http://www.garagesalebonanza.com
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