Today was particularly good. Why was it better than usual? I don't know.
It was a sunny day, the sort where people think taking a drive out to the market at Evandale is a good idea? There was nothing else on this weekend?
Sold new things just bought this last week (e.g. postcard sized Pears prints in frames) and things that have been hanging around for ages (e.g cigarette cards in frames that I had written of as "examples", that is, buy these cards and you too can do this) and even things that had been around since week 1 (e.g. George III farthing with a dent in it) and a steady stream of the usual (e.g. the pennies. Pennies always sell. I have a bowlful of the big, pre-decimal copper coins and a sign saying 3 for $1. People just can't seem to walk past without looking in it. A good way to get people to stop at our stall).
The world coins in packets sold well. I printed out pages with "regions" at the top and stuck these on a corkboard and then stuck the coins under their correspondning headings, so it's more obvious what I'm selling. To fill the gap for North America, I grabbed some ordinary Canadian & US coins that were floating around, shoved them in a bag and put $1 on each. And they sold first up.
It not long after this that I noted that I'd sold US coins worth about Aus 20c* for $1. Now with a markup like that... Which lead to a discussion of who we could get lots of US loose change cheaply.
Next month we're hoping to go the day after the Evandale Village Fair, which includes the National Pennyfarthing Championships. Penny farthing isn't that easy to find on Ebay though ;)
*For 1 point, what were the 3 coins in the bag?
It was a sunny day, the sort where people think taking a drive out to the market at Evandale is a good idea? There was nothing else on this weekend?
Sold new things just bought this last week (e.g. postcard sized Pears prints in frames) and things that have been hanging around for ages (e.g cigarette cards in frames that I had written of as "examples", that is, buy these cards and you too can do this) and even things that had been around since week 1 (e.g. George III farthing with a dent in it) and a steady stream of the usual (e.g. the pennies. Pennies always sell. I have a bowlful of the big, pre-decimal copper coins and a sign saying 3 for $1. People just can't seem to walk past without looking in it. A good way to get people to stop at our stall).
The world coins in packets sold well. I printed out pages with "regions" at the top and stuck these on a corkboard and then stuck the coins under their correspondning headings, so it's more obvious what I'm selling. To fill the gap for North America, I grabbed some ordinary Canadian & US coins that were floating around, shoved them in a bag and put $1 on each. And they sold first up.
It not long after this that I noted that I'd sold US coins worth about Aus 20c* for $1. Now with a markup like that... Which lead to a discussion of who we could get lots of US loose change cheaply.
Next month we're hoping to go the day after the Evandale Village Fair, which includes the National Pennyfarthing Championships. Penny farthing isn't that easy to find on Ebay though ;)
*For 1 point, what were the 3 coins in the bag?
