So. The framer I was hoping to see this weekend is on vacation. But there was a huge ad in the paper for these 'Estate buyers' looking to buy antiques.
"Buying anything old!" plus "Free appraisals"
And there was a list of items they claimed they were looking for - which I have at least one of EVERYTHING.
My house is overwhelmed with antiques! I thought I could sell many items, AND have this mermaid painting/print appraised.
2 guys finally show up, and I start in the room that I keep the crystal, china, books, marbles, etc...and he asks if I have any jewelry.
Didn't even look at anything! So I take them downstairs to my shop, where I keep all the furniture. The Empire sofa, balloon back chairs, Libry-Dine table, pictures, paintings, comics, etc., etc...the guy could care less!
So I break out the jewelry. He grabs my grandmothers gold earrings & my Grandfathers wedding band and offers me $100.00.
And I said "Wait." "You're not interested in anything else you see here?"
He says "no. Do you have any more jewelry?" [[[sounding very disappointed]]] and I said "If I'd have known that was all you were interested in I wouldn't have wasted either our time"
I then ask him if he can at least give me an appraisal on this Mermaid picture.
He takes it out of the box like it was worthless [I wanted to smack him], looked at it for 2 seconds and said it wasn't worth $30.00.
Thats it! Thats all he said.
Seriously??
What just happened here.
