About this time last year i popped into my friends Dave for a cup of tea , Dave was getting ready to put his house on the market .As I walked in to his kitchen I could not believe my eye's there on the kitchen table were piles of bank notes, fivers ,teners , twenty's ,” what you going to do with all those Dave” I ask “ Taking them down the local tip to recycle them “ was his reply. “You have got to be mad Dave there are hundreds if not thousand's of pounds laying there” .Dave looked at the table looked back at me “Chris there just piles of Susan's and mine old magazines they have been sitting up in the spare room accumulating dust for years “ .
I walked over to the table, piles of Vogue , People Magazine , I guessed they were Sue's and then Dave’s pile Motor Mechanics , Classic Car , Play Boy I looked over at Dave “yea I thought about keeping those one's” he said with a smile , and then a pile of gardening magazines.
I started Dave's computer up, and typed in eBay , then put magazines in the search box , Dave was amazed at the result . I then put Vogue in the search box and Dave's eyes lit up , Play Boy next same results .
We went back into the kitchen Dave made the tea , even before Dave said anything I could see the obvious questions in his face . There are people out there who are serious collectors of all type's of magazine's ,some may need a certain issue to complete a set , some especially students may need them for a project , Vogue for example are sought after by students and collectors of vintage fashion and fashion history .
Look Dave I could spend hours telling you different ways to make decent money out of those old magazines , why not do yourself a favour and have a look at Avril Harper's ebook
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An e what said Dave, an ebook Dave its just like a real book but you download them off the Internet read them on your computer or print them off, any time day or night 365 day's a year.
“And what is this ebook thingy about again “said Dave , well look at the title and guess I told him.
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Dave and Sue sold there house and when they moved there was a very smaller stack of magazines that went with them and no none of them went to the local tip , and they now also have a very lucrative part-time business recycling old magazines and books .
Untill next week Happy Hunting
Chris- Allan
http://collectible.chris-allan.com/
Friday, February 23, 2007
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Look out Look out There's a Thief About
With the development of the Internet , and especially the rapid growth of on line auctions it was only a question of time, when and not if the thieves would strike.
With on line auctions I am afraid that thieves (some call them fraudsters but i genuinely consider that sounds to nice) operate both as buyers and sellers and the bottom line is to be very vigilant , Some are very clever.
One way as a buyer you can give yourself extra protection is If the item you are buying
is over £100 then were possible buy with a credit card.
If things go wrong then you have added protection from your card company and you should be able claim back your money if your purchase does not turn out to be what it was described as or not fit for the purpose it was meant for or you do not receive it at all.
And always remember if something looks to good to be true then it probably is.
The broken item scam and how to protect yourself.
This scam recently happened to a friend of mine Paul but like a good boy scout he was prepared ..
Paul collects and trades in Lladro , very beautiful and fragile handcrafted figurines of porcelain. To add significant value to their collections Lladro will only make a fixed number of any one piece , and then make them retired.
So as you can expect these pieces increase in value and become quite rare.
Paul has been trading in Lladro for many years , but since the development of the on-line auctions he has exclusively traded on line making an exceptional living.
On a recent auction of his for a piece called the gossips (see picture) the bidding was quite vigour's , it seemed that one person was going to buy the item no matter what. Over bidding what anyone else was prepared to pay , nothing unusual in this in fact this is the fortunate position any trader dreams off.
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Back to the story
Auction over and a nice profit made , Paul very carefully parceled the item , remember that he has done this many hundreds of time over the years and knew how to pack.
With in hours of the successful bidder receiving his parcel the scam started. Paul received an email informing him that on opening the parcel the item was broken , and in no uncertain terms informing Paul that if this was not sorted very quickly
then he would leave negative feed back as well as informing the auction site concerned and demanding a refund.
As anybody that has traded on an auction site will know feed back can make or break you
and is the last thing you want to see against your name especially if you make a living on line .
Straight away this got Paul's hackles up and he felt something was not right , yes sometimes things did get broken in transit but Paul knew that the way he parcel's items up that it would have to been run over by a steam roller to break. Paul replied to his buyers email asking that he repackage the item up and send it back , and on receipt of the item Paul would refund his purchase.
On receipt of the parcel Paul opened it and straight away knew this had not be broken in transit , he surmised from the chip on the base that this had been dropped or knocked over from where it had been displayed.
Then taking the item and putting it under a special light Paul knew for certain that this was not his Lladro.
You see this same scam happened to Paul long before online auction's , but back then he did not know what to do about it and lost a valuable item plus granted a refund .
It was only after talking to a friend in the same line of business that Paul found out about , UV markers pen's. This makes an invisible mark that can only be seen with a special ultra - violet lamp so it won't devalue or spoil valuable property .
A UV pen and lamp can be brought for a few pounds from most good stationer stores.
A good investment to protect your property from thieves.
The completion to Paul's story is that he reported this to both the police and the auction site ..
Now do not get me wrong the majority of people on auction sites are as honest as you and me but you need to beware that there are thieves out there and you need to know the scams and what you can do to protect yourself from suffering a loss.
I hope this has been helpful to you ,until next week.
Happy Hunting
Chris-Allan
http://collectible.chris-allan.com/
Saturday, February 10, 2007
How Much is That Pot in the Window
Okay i know the song say,s dog but give me some poetic license here.
There is a window but no dog just a small pot, a pot that has sat on the windowsill for sometime.The owners thought the pot was colourful but of no real value.It was first purchaased for a few shillings in the Fifties, a valuer saw the pot ten years ago and said "that it was worthless" said the owner who did not want to be named, i would also think that the first valuer would not not want to be named either.
For as it turns out the Pot is a Chinese wine jug from the reign of the Emperor Qianlong (1736-1795).
It stands 7.5in high, pink-patterned with a broad mouth, no handle and is decorated with Buddhist symbols and lotus flowers.
Luckily for the unnamed owner Guy Schwinge of auctioneers Duke's in Dorchester,
Oh and to answer my opening question How Much is That Pot in the Window, it is expected to fetch the better side of £100,00.
Until next week Happy Hunting
http://collectible.chris-allan.com/Friday, February 2, 2007
Zippo the Collectors Lighter
Hev Yew Gotta Loight, Boi?", so asked The Singing Postman Allan Smethurst in 1966.
If you did have a light, the odds are you would have pulled out a Zippo. Since 1933 over 4 million Zippo lighters have been produced, now usually anything that has a production run of over 4 million would not rate high on the collectors radar but with Zippo, you could not be more wrong.
At a swap meet held in
So how would you find out which Zippo,s to look for and how much you could expect to get for them,well the most obvious place to start would be Ebay, at the moment (Friday 2nd February 2007) the most expensive Zippo is going for £275.00 this is a unique handmade sterling Zippo lighter with dragon, see picture below.
You can get real live prices on Ebay on Zippo,s by clicking here .
Another excellent source for information is http://www.zippoclick.com/ yes this a collectors club for the worldwide clique of Zippo lighter enthusiasts yes a fan club for a cigarette lighter but than again this is no ordinary cigarette lighter it has a list of film credits that the best actors in the world would kill for such as Die Hard, Night at the Museum, Reservoir Dogs, X-Men 2, Pulp Fiction, Dogma, Constantine, The Grudge, and Inside Man to name a few in short the Zippo is a legend ,to see the full range of
Zippo,s click here 
Where to find old Zippos? the place, house clearance auctions look out for box's of mixed lot's where people could not be bothered to sought through the box and list items individually and of course the good old boot sales, there is a vast range of Zippo's so do your home work, check out ebay and do not forget the collector,s club
until next week.
Happy Hunting
Chris-Allan
collectible.chris-allan.com/
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