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Spring Clear Out!
Saturday 11th April 2015
Spring and the time had come for a clear out if we were to avoid accusations of hoarding. And the first decision we made was that we would forego buying new stock to give us chance to work through our old unsorted stock. Missing our regular auctions felt very strange, but it was essential.
There was a box of old keys that we had used as a door stop for months. Broken down into homogenous lots, sales soon mounted, the star lot being old clock and watch keys.
Box of old glass stoppers...off you go to online auction.
Those pieces of Capodimonte that were too large and fragile to pack? Large boxes acquired and they started to sell.
Automobilia posters and Victorian calendars hanging around? Many now sold, all we needed was to buy some postal tubes that had been on our "to do" list for months.
Box by box, shelf by shelf, we checked and researched our stock, threw some away, gave some away, consigned some to bricks and mortar auctions, but mainly offered it for online sale
But we needed to shift even more items, some too large to post. Those we could possibly sell online for local collection, consign to auction or sell direct. Boxes of mismatch china were sold as a job lot to be collected. Next was the Rotary organised car boot in Cowbridge. Selling quality stock at a car boot is an interesting experience! What helps to set baseline prices is to have a good idea of how much items will fetch if sold online or at a bricks and mortar auction. Even then many buyers will balk at paying wholesale prices, no doubt conditioned by stories on Flog It of buying items worth £100s for pence. Still, the car boot came and went and a lot of stock went too.
Day by day, week by week, stock was moved out.
And the miracle occurred. Gaps appeared on shelves, walkways were cleared, order and harmony were restored.
What now, you might ask?
Well, time to start buying again., of course!