Ugh. This weekend is fleamarket time again. I sit here thinking over
prices and then "customer" reactions. Last time I asked $5 each for full
length bib aprons that, I might add, I could have sold for $15-$20 each
on ebay. I had a snotty older woman ask me the price, I told her "$5
each, but I'll go $3". She says "I was thinking more like $1". I wanted
to shove them up her candy-arse.
I just smiled and refused to back down, and she sniffed and trotted
away. I later sold a few for $3 each. Do these people think about the
fact that these items were originally either made, which took material
which cost money, and time to make, or they were purchased by the
present owner, which cost money to buy and also takes time, seeing as I usually wash, starch and iron my linens?
Nope. They don't. When I shop at the fleamarket I don't ever
ask someone to lower their price, they have a reason for whatever they
are asking. I feel like it's shitty and insulting to ask someone who is
asking $3 for a $25 item to lower it to a dollar. You're already getting
a bargain, why push it?
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