http://secondmarketshopping.com Helping You Find Treasures Among the Trash Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:32:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tinka: Another thing you can buy on the second market, which a lot of people don’t realize, is jewelry. You can buy some of the most fabulous costume jewelry you’ve ever seen!  For $2.50, you can buy a very high quality vintage pin, and if you get a book* and ... http://secondmarketshopping.com/2009/06/17/vintage-jewelry/ Tinka: There is one particular thrift store that has 144 wedding dresses that somebody donated.  These dresses are absolutely stunning.  Most of them went for $500 to $1000 per dress, retail.  Now you can get these dresses on the 2nd market for usually less than $100.  I think some ... http://secondmarketshopping.com/2009/06/03/getting-married-next-june-save-a-fortune-on-your-wedding-dress-and-spend-it-on-your-honeymoon/ It's been a while since I put anything up for auction at eBay, but I just loaded 5 more books starting as low as .99. They cover tarot, psychic development, and pathworking. Click here to check them out.  I also have an eBay store with lots of other ... http://secondmarketshopping.com/2009/05/16/tarot-and-psychic-development-books-offered-for-auction-at-ebay/ Tinka: The nice thing about shopping on the second market, you can change your wardrobe 4 or 5 times a year, and still look good, and when you get tired or wearing it you just send it back to the thrift store, and somebody else gets it, if it is ... http://secondmarketshopping.com/2009/05/16/secrets-of-second-market-shopping-part-1-timing-and-how-to-dicker-over-price/ 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 ... http://secondmarketshopping.com/2009/04/19/10-off-at-our-favorite-ebay-seller-and-she-has-boosha-beads/ 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! ... http://secondmarketshopping.com/2009/04/19/the-second-market-shopping-video-is-almost-done/ Tinka: It used to be that everybody had this knowledge.   It was taught from mother to daughter.  It is not being taught anymore. We are living in a society right now where every every penny counts. You need to be able to create something out of nothing. If you drive up ... http://secondmarketshopping.com/2009/04/16/tinka-we-are-going-to-teach-you-how-to-buy-quality/ I've added dozens of new books to the Second Market Shopping category in the Persephone's Haven bookstore, including Garage sale, flea market, and lace and linens books. I've added a new Antiques category, including an Antiques Roadshow division, an Antique Traders division, and Lovejoy books and DVDS.   I've also added ... http://secondmarketshopping.com/2009/04/11/extensive-additions-to-the-second-market-shopping-bookstore/ 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 ... http://secondmarketshopping.com/2009/04/10/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/ 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 ... http://secondmarketshopping.com/2009/04/08/think-outside-the-box-and-never-be-ashamed-to-shop-the-second-market/