Good news, Good news

I know many of ya'll read my post the other week about my first BB gun and a quiver of arrows getting wrongly sold at Mom's yard sale. I was about as mad as I have been in a long time over the whole deal. I guess when you experience a house fire, as a teen, that takes nearly everything you had attachments to while growing up, you develop an even stronger attachment to the few things that are left.

Anyways, my sister called a little while ago. The had been to the auction house tonight where the items remaining after the last sale were taken. While there she happened to see the man that bought my stuff. She approached him and explained the situation, and he agreed to bring the items back to her in two weeks, at the next sale.

I don't want to count my chickens before they hatch, and don't even want to know how my sister knew what the man that bought them looked like (after saying there was no way to know who bought the stuff since there were several of them selling, etc, etc, when I mentioned getting them back) but for the time being I am happy that the chance exists to get them back. Too, I guess I'll have to forgive my sister for selling them (how else could she know)and not mention that fact to her, and instead just thank her for getting them back....Better than 'unloading both barrels and reloading to do it again' like I wanted to do the day I discovered them gone........

"Two weeks, at the next sale", Gonna be along two weeks, ain't it? But that is encouraging news, I just hope it works out.

That's something isn't it ? LOL ! Remember what I said, had not been that long, you never know, regardless, its a crappy feeling what happened, hopefully the saga concludes with it in your favor.

sounds promising, i hope you get em back. i used to have an old tube radio i got when i was 12 and fixed to work again and a metal milk carton that my favorite uncle gave me that i'll never see again.

Sounds like a good man, glad your sister found him.

I buy a lot of stuff at estate and yard sales, and find that most buyers will try to do the right thing. A few months ago, at a sale, I bought an old high school annual, among other things. I had already paid, but a lady saw it and asked to look at it. Her son was in it, and he had died ten years ago, plus every pic of him had been lost in a housefire. She showed me the pictures of her son, and asked if I would please sell it to her.. Told her it was not for sale, but she could have it. She started crying, and hugged me.. To see her so happy was worth a lot more than the few dollars I could have made off the book.

I'd offer the man a profit.

the auctioneer should have a list of buyers and there addresses, finding who bought what is as simple as looking at the buyers list and numbers