Everyone who has been to more then one major Estate Sale knows the type...
They are rude, pushy, obnoxious, arrogant and, well let's face it.... likely unemployed. They are the "Dealers". We all have seen them, they are the people who seem to be at two places at once. With the dozens of sales going on at any given weekend in Portland, they are almost always at the one you wanted to attend and no doubt are ahead of you in line. They stand up by the door, acting cordial to one another, laughing and talking as if they are best buds.... until those doors open... then all bets are off.
They are the sharks, the predators, the grabber of treasures, with bottomless shopping bags and ten hands. If the zombie apocalypse became reality, the Dealers would no doubt be the zombies that would be first to bang on your boarded up front door, and likely far earlier in the morning then you were expecting.
The Dealers are the bane of the casual hunters existence and it is time for a change... and some rules.
RULES FOR DEALERS - The first two anyway...
1. NO MORE "SOLD" STICKERS.
Everyone has seen it, the Dealer frantically running around a sale, slapping "SOLD" stickers on everything he/she can reach. Hey, The Shadow isn't stupid, I get it, some things are just too big to pick up and carry; but that is not how these "SOLD" stickers are being used. Dealers will put stickers such as these on things to hold them and keep others from buying them. They will then zig zag through the sale, picking up things they can carry and once they are done will revisit the items they have marked "SOLD" and then decide whether or not to actually buy it. If they decide they don't want it, they casually remove their mark and move on. Meanwhile, people who would have liked to have had the item have seen the "SOLD" sticker and moved on, missing the opportunity to own it. If you want to use sold stickers, then commit to the purchase. Any Dealer not buying what they previously marked as "SOLD" should be BANNED from sales entirely.
2. BE POLITE.
The Shadow understands that you are trying to make money, but if you are pushing elderly women down a flight of steps so that you can grab a broken slot car, perhaps you need to rethink the path you have taken in life.
This blog is a reminder to those who put on Estate, Garage and Yard Sales as well as to those who attend them, that I am out there, I am watching and listening and learning... I am the Shadow... and I know.
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