[Teedlejo]

Our block had a garage sale yesterday. For the most part it went very well. To the person who stole the watch from me, I hope you can sleep at night. Seriously, you have to steal from a garage sale!!!

[karostay]

Friendliest Home Town

[Dotneko]

Originally Posted by Teedlejo

Our block had a garage sale yesterday. For the most part it went very well. To the person who stole the watch from me, I hope you can sleep at night. Seriously, you have to steal from a garage sale!!!

Sorry this happened to you. There is clearly a subset of jerks living here. I guess I will hope it wasnt one of your neighbors.

[MrFlorida]

People come here from all walks of life, it's not a Village thing, it's a people thing....

[Stu from NYC]

Friend of our had one in Va just before moving.

Had laptop with power cord they were selling.

Someone came to them showing laptop without cord and expected huge discount. Want to bet the cord was in his pocket.

[John-US]

Another villager who wanted to WIN! HA!

sorry for your loss, next yard sale increase the prices a nickle to compensate for the lost revenue.

[Bogie Shooter]

A whole lot of assuming here. OP never inferred it was a Villager.

[ElDiabloJoe]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Friend of our had one in Va just before moving.

Had laptop with power cord they were selling.

Someone came to them showing laptop without cord and expected huge discount. Want to bet the cord was in his pocket.

Lol, can be obtained on Amazon and mailed to your door for $7.99. Yea- No discount.

[Dotneko]

Originally Posted by John-US

Another villager who wanted to WIN! HA!

sorry for your loss, next yard sale increase the prices a nickle to compensate for the lost revenue.

You have no idea how much the watch was worth. Unless you took it?

[Mrprez]

Why does everyone assume it was a villager? Course have been someone from a neighboring town.

[John-US]

Originally Posted by Dotneko

You have no idea how much the watch was worth. Unless you took it?

I always shop for FOLEX at yard sales... worth so much it would be on your wrist. hahhaha

time to tell the misses we gotta cut off HBO for a few months.

[fdpaq0580]

Sorry for the loss. Did we learn anything about how to display small or pricy items so "sticky fingers" can see but not touch them??

[Spalumbos62]

I dont think they were implying in was a Villager per say, just a low life that did a crappy thing.

To the poster....do you remember anyone admirering it, or hanging by it for a long time?

[LizzieBorden]

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.

[RICH1]

Garage sale theft is prevalent in The Villages. It obviously will be on the Rise until we spend hundreds of thousands for a Police Department..Golf carts with Breathalyzers are next!