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Old 02-28-2022, 06:13 AM
LizzieBorden LizzieBorden is offline
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A few years ago we had a neighborhood garage sale and we decided to sell some of our things as well, cleaned out a lot of stuff and set up our sale. I had a table with a lot of costume jewelry, nothing terribly expensive. My friends helped out with the sale, wrapping up things folks had bought,, etc…A woman with a fanny pack was walking around and I was watching her as she came in, picking things up look at them, putting them back, she did the same with the bags of jewelry I had laid out. Someone else was talking to me and she proceeded up the table and I saw the two bags she was looking at were no longer on the table…she continued up the isle to exit the garage and I walked up to her and quietly said “would you like to pay for the items you took” and she gave me a puzzled look. I said “ you either pay now, or put the items back or I am calling 911”. I didn’t SEE her take the items, but she was the only one there at the table at the time AND no one else could have taken them. It happened that quick. She reached in her fanny pack and threw the items on the table and ran out the garage and hopped on her bike. If she had asked if she could have had a piece, I honestly would have given them to her. If something was marked for 10 dollars and they asked to pay 8, we said yes. Our goal was to get rid of our items not get rich. When you have a sale, if there are expensive items you are trying to sell, a lesson learned it to have someone be responsible for this so this doesnt happen to you. Sorry for your mishap. We dont know where folks are coming from….it could have been the Villages or outside, it’s unfortunate no matter where you live.