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I spent $75 on a 'mystery box' of old keys at a flea market and got nothing but junk
So last month at the big flea market in Springfield, a seller had these cool looking wooden boxes full of old keys. He said they were from an estate sale and could have anything from skeleton keys to maybe even safe deposit box keys. I paid $75 for one, thinking it was a fun gamble. When I got home and sorted through all 200 keys, every single one was a basic, modern house key or a cheap padlock key, all totally common. The box itself was just a beat up craft store thing. I feel like I paid for the story, not the stuff. On one hand, it's my own fault for taking the risk, but on the other, the seller really made it sound like a curated collection. Has anyone else been burned by a 'mystery' lot that was just plain trash?
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derekp706d ago
Oof, that's a rough one. I once bought a "vintage" camera bag that turned out to be just a regular bag someone spilled coffee on (to be fair, I did that part myself later). The mystery box game is brutal because you're totally buying the dream they're selling. At least you got a box for your new collection of... uh... very standard keys. Maybe you can start a modern house key museum?
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fionarodriguez6d ago
My buddy Steve spent eighty bucks on a mystery box of "rare" comics. It was just a bunch of 90s X-Men issues you can find in any dollar bin. He uses the box to store old cables now.
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