Second Market Shopping with Tinka and Boosha » video series

10% off at our favorite eBay seller, and she has “Boosha Beads!”

Vivienne — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:27:34 +0000

You may have noticed in our blog roll that we have our favorite ebay seller listed. Well, she has agreed to give a 10% discount to anyone who buys from her, if they mention that they heard about her from Second Market Shopping! Just make sure that when you make your purchase, you mention the Second Market Shopping discount before you pay, so she can invoice you with the discount in place. I think that is just SO COOL of her!

Gail2003 is an eBay power seller, and she has a lot of items along the lines of what we discuss in the Second Market Shopping video: vintage clothes, baby clothes, sewing patterns, and lots more! She has 100% positive feedback (1830) and great prices. She always has around 100 items up for sale, and they sell so fast that her inventory is constantly being updated, so make sure to check her out on a regular basis.

Also, she’s gotten together with Boosha to create a new product: “Boosha Beads!” As soon as she’s got the link up, I will post it here. I can’t wait to see what they put together!

Happy shopping!

BB,

Vivienne

The Second Market Shopping video is almost done!

Vivienne — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:33:56 +0000

A couple of tweaks to fix, then all that’s left to do is export the audio to Audacity so I can clean up the audio; get together with Tinka next weekend to put in the final text balloon comments; and lastly, clean up the video. And it’s done! So within a couple/three weeks it should be available.

I’m also working on researching some of the topics referenced in the video (like art glass, vintage jewelry, etc.) to create white papers for bonus materials. There will be several of those.

I hope to get some preview clips up soon as well, to give people a taste of the great information contained in this video.

So keep checking back at Second Market Shopping for updates, or sign up here to be notified when the video is available:

What would you say to people who turn up their nose at going to a thrift store or feel too proud to buy something in a thrift store?

Vivienne — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:59:03 +0000

Vivienne: What would you say to people who turn up their nose at going to a thrift store or feel too proud to buy something in a thrift store?

Tinka: Truthfully the thrift stores today are not like they used to be. They are very clean. They are almost like going into retail department stores. Especially like the ASPCA or the goodwill or the church stores. Most of them the clothing is clean, it is set out and a lot of it is actually sized, so you don’t have to go through every rack to find your size. They are making it easier and easier, and it’s going to be a wave of the future, because most people cannot afford to pay retail. There is a market for retail and there is a market for the second market. The second market is for you. Garage sales, thrift stores, church resale, rummage sales, pawn shops, consignment shops. If you go in your directory for your town you can find this information. Mostly the church thrift shops are very very good.

Boosha: Go to the best neighborhoods — if you go to a neighborhood that is kind of questionable, you’re not going to find the best stuff. But people that have houses, woman all the time buy stuff, put it in their closet and never even take the tags off of it, and they never wear it.

Tinka: You can find paintings, you can find glass, you can find antique books, there is nothing that you can’t find on the second market if you’re willing to go around and look.

Boosha: You find these things all the time, you just have to know where to look. And that’s where Tinka and I are going to help you.

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Think outside the box and never be ashamed to shop the Second Market

Vivienne — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:23:20 +0000

Boosha: You can get so many nice things by going to the unusual places to shop. You don’t have to pay retail market price for these things. You can find things online, you can find things at eBay, you can find things on Craigslist, you can find furniture at thrift stores. There are so many places you can go, just as long as you can get over the fact that you’re not buying it brand new, and you think that someone else doesn’t want it or use it and that its no good.

People throw away things every day that are very very functional and useful. Like Tinka’s patio chairs and table — we found them beside the road, brought them home, cleaned them up, and spray painted them black. Everything looks better when it’s spray painted black!

Tinka: And it’s wrought iron! It’ll last for 150 years, it will not rot!

Boosha: With the economy the way it is now, we think that everyone should have the opportunity to learn how to save money shopping on the Second Market, so we would like to help you. We have an informational video coming out soon that we hope that you will enjoy.

Tinka: And give you some really good results.

Boosha: We are going to teach people how to go into pawn shops, and never be afraid to walk into a store. I have people that tell me “oh my gosh! You go to a pawn shop?” And I go “Sure, I have bought many pretty things.”

I have bought diamond rings for a fraction of what they were worth. I bought a necklace, which started out as an earring, and I simply clipped the back of it off and put it on a chain, and now I have a very pretty diamond necklace. You have to think outside the box. Don’t look at it, if it’s an earring, and think it’s going to be an earring. It could become a brooch, or it could become a necklace.

Vivienne: So think outside the box, be creative, and never be ashamed or afraid to walk into a second market venue — these techniques make you smarter than the average bear!

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$300 Oleg Cassini blouse for $5!

Vivienne — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:35:35 +0000

Another great find I made while yard sale-ing was this beautiful Oleg Cassini blouse. Tinka saw it in one of the thrift stores we visited and showed me, telling me it would retail for around $300.00. It was being sold for $5! “Do you want it?” she asked me. “Absolutely!” I declared, without a moment’s hesitation. I have never seen such beautiful bead work on an article of clothing — the collar and sleeves are literally dripping with stunning black bead work.

I’ve got video of this item too — I’ll try to get it posted here soon.

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Vivienne

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Shop thrifty, save more money and make cash buying and selling on the Second Market!

admin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:17:35 +0000

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