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« on: December 22, 2012, 07:54:25 AM »
I will tend to gamble on low priced lockers $200 and under, at that price it doesn't matter to me. If all I can see in a unit is a safe and nothing else intriguing I dont care. Almost allways they are empty and the unit brings too many bids. Now I will gamble if the unit has what I like to call the "uniqe factor". For example I purchased a unit last month, all you could see was a large fake flower arrangment about 3 foot wide and 2 foot tall covered in plastic and appeared to be from the 1960's, a framed picture of a creepy clown, 1950's childs high chair, a small old tackle box and 40 or so boxes most small to med size. What interested me was some of the boxes had written on them words like mysticism and hypnotation, also cameras and films.
Now everyone was making fun of the clown picture and ugly flowers but what they werent paying attention to is the odd table it was on. It was florescent green with a spiriling florescent orange stripe running up the center. So some guy ran me up to $430. Everyone was laughing at me for overpaying on junk. Well the ugly flowers everyone was laughing about, calling them a dump run was actually a stage prop for a magic act the flowers are made from feathers and the whole thing folds down into a tube, and low and behold a brand new one cost...drumroll please $3800 yes score, mine is worth about $8-900 used, and half the boxes were filled with magic trics ranging in value $10 - $200 each. Also in the back was a velvet painting chest high and about 3 feet wide, which I have on Ebay right now for $700 and have 7 watchers and over 130 views. There is some other cool stuff as well. So yes I will gamble sometimes but only if it is unusual.
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