Every time this thread gets bumped I am terrified that my distorted reflected face is going to appear, or one of my auctions of disgusting old tat will be held up for scrutiny. I do sell some risible auld shite but it’s my hobby, it keeps stuff out of landfill and sometimes I make a few bob.
For example: having now acquired a reputation for clearing dead friend’s homes, we got asked to help a friend clear his dead step-sister’s garage. When we got there, he’d made a start and made 3 piles of stuff, one for the dump, one for the chazza (when they reopen for donations) and one for resale via car boot/eBay/auction. My partner rescued a small item he spotted in the ‘dump’ pile, I wish I could reveal further details but it’s hush-hush because of our friend’s family politics. These items normally go for a fiver or so, so we bunged it on eBay for 99p one evening and woke up to a shitstorm of messages and offers in the hundreds from several dealers. Turns out this mundane-looking item was very special and rare; we let the auction run and it sold for £1450! (We’ve given most of the profit, after fees and commission, to our friend, just in case anyone thought I was being cagey about the details because I’d trousered the cash.)
Tl:dr: Try to avoid chucking old stuff away, it may have value you don’t know about.
