(LIVE) Right now we're in a massive antique store in New Oxford, PA. It's one of those deals where any old local yokel can rent a particular corner of the shop and sell their junk. So the pricing on any given object seems pretty random. Although I'm certainly no antique expert; maybe there's some encyclopedia somewhere that lists the acceptable price spread.
It comes to mind that maybe some people don't actually intend to *sell* their stuff... Just rent out space to *display* it. When I see a ceramic devil sitting on the edge of a ceramic chamberpot priced at $126, it just seems more like "Look at my collection" than "Please buy this Potty Devil."
Or the "Cantor Makes Coffee" book I'm looking at right now, with a horrified-looking Eddie Cantor on the cover. $35. I don't know; I'll have to assume there is an Eddie Cantor merchandise price guide readily available.
Whenever we patrol these sorts of stores, I inevitably start to wonder if all of my junk will meet this fate. It actually sounds like a cost effective way to display my '80s/'90s action figures. Just have to price them appropriately. Is $90 too much for an unopened Star Trek Lursa figure?
