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The site, which helps people nationwide locate sales in their area, has doubled its business every year over the last five years. It currently lists an average of 75,000 sales a week with more than 150,000 people signed up to receive its e-mail alerts "The poor economy is primarily what's driving it," said Dan McQuade, an owner of the site, which is based in Jackson, Mo. "It's forcing more people to sell their things and making more people unwilling or unable to buy retail." Deborah McMahon, 59, a retired congressional staffer, started shopping at estate sales eight months ago for items to Vibram Five Fingers sale up her four-story town house in Alexandria, Va. "You can find things that make a room, and at a tolerable price," she said. Her latest finds are a brass lamp with a black metallic shade and an antique Oriental bowl. But McMahon said it took her some time to learn the protocol Vibram Five Fingers Sprint estate-sale shopping. "It's like you are breaking into a clique," she said. "There's this whole subculture with its own set of rules." For example, the first person to arrive at a sale distributes so-called pre-numbers to others Vibram Five Fingers Sprint Black-Black Shoes they drive up and wait in their cars. "You flash your lights to let them know you are there for the sale," said McMahon, who usually shows up well before dawn for sales that typically start around 8 a.m. When the person running the sale arrives, shoppers exchange their pre-numbers for real numbers, which determine the order in which shoppers are admitted. "Even when I get there early and get a good number, I still get shoe prints on my back," McMahon said. "It's fun, but it's like ants all over an anthill Vibram Five Fingers Sprint Blue-Grey Shoes they first open the doors." Those with the sharpest elbows, according to veterans, tend to be pickers, which in estate-sale argot means dealers who are seeking items to resell in antiques malls or flea markets, or online. Junkers are recreational shoppers who are buying for themselves. And hoarders, of course, are acquiring compulsively and may have to hold their own estate sales to pare down their accumulation.


Par sangqiers le mercredi 05 janvier 2011

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