Three (3) videos of Dr. Lori revealing actual yard
sale losses on
her CBS 3 TV "Trash or Treasure?" program in Philadelphia,
PA.
Brief Yard Sale History
Dr. Lori's Yard Sale Rules
Yard Sale Losses
Five tips for the Yard Sale Shopper
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Videos of Dr. Lori
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video of Dr. Lori now discover French antique lamps, watercolor
paintings, and a Lladro knock-off. All together the items were priced at
$87, but valued at $1,755!
Watch
video of Dr. Lori now at yard sales finding valuable costume jewelry,
Wedgwood, and Royal Doulton figurines. All priced at $55, but worth
thousands.
Watch
video of Dr. Lori now visit yard sales and discover Roseville vases
priced at $5, four paint by numbers paintings for $0.25, and much more.
Learn their values!
Brief Yard Sale
History
An American institution, the yard sale picks up where the French flea market left off. Yard sales brought free trade to the front lawn. Initially, 1950s American suburbanites sold their wares in the self-proclaimed open-aire stores measuring from the threshold to the curb.
Dr. Lori's Yard
Sale Rules
If you’ve watched my television
programs or read my newspaper
columns, you know that I regularly attend yard sales. I find valuable objects and share information with yard sale hosts and viewers. I set rules for myself and while I play by these rules, you don’t have to play by them. First, I never purchase anything from the yard sales I visit. I haggle with the yard sale hosts to get the best price for an object and when they make me an offer, I reveal my identity and tell the yard sale host the actual value of the object. I advise them to bring the valuable piece back into the house or at least, reprice it. As you probably guessed, I get many invitations to visit people’s yard sales. Don’t be surprised if I show up at your house.
You are welcome to alert me to your
upcoming yard sale and advertise it on
our website.
Yard Sale
Losses
Most hosts don’t bother to find out what their objects are worth before they schlep them out to the front lawn with price tags. By the time that vintage 1950s Betty Crocker cookbook makes it to the $.25 table, an unsuspecting yard sale host is unaware that he/she lost $104.75 on that single item. After unknowingly selling the cookbook well under its value, the yard sale host struggles to move Aunt Bessie’s
antique piano stool out of the basement. The piano stool is valued at $400, but placed on the lawn with an asking price of $8. Most of us are selling our treasures for next to nothing.
View my five basic tips for the yard sale shopper.
Request
an online appraisal for specific yard sale items BEFORE you lose money
on your front lawn.
Dr. Lori
Director
Masterpiece Technologies Inc.
