21 Nov
2014
21 Nov
'14
8:29 a.m.
On 11/21/14 7:21 AM, David Schmidt wrote:
if the scrapper teamed up with a curator, a lot of
money could be made, and a lot of valuable stuff could be saved
from actually being scrapped. Shame.
And from my dealing with scrappers for decades, as Will said, they won't waste their
time with the small-time collectors
that hang out here. If you aren't talking thousands of dollars, and big lots, you
don't play. Anything less is chump change
that they may put some flunky on trying to sell on eBay. Witness what happened with
Sellam's collection for the past two
years. They screwed around with it trying to find someone to buy the whole thing, spent
six months with truckloads at the
DeAnza flea market, then dumped the rest.
What I'm seeing more of now is just collectors selling between each other, with prices
slowly ratcheting up on desirable
pieces, and most of the rest getting scrapped.