I recently purchased these chairs from a Craig’s list posting. They are in excellent condition, and I thought I would “redoux” one of them to go in my teen’s room, where we are going with a Pottery Barnish contemporary look. Â
The chairs have a low, postmodern look that with a new fabric, and a little clean up on the wood, they will be fantastic. They are totally solid and in excellent condition.
Here comes the kicker. The chairs were posted for $10 each.  I arrived at sellers home, eager to pick up my $20 bargain. I hand the woman the money, she pause, and says, “well”, (meanwhile, I am thinking, “aughhhhhh, I screwed up the price and got these confused with something else, she is probably going to tell me she was asking $100 for each chair”!!!) Then she says, “I actually posted it wrong, I should have said $5 per chair, here let me give you a $10 back.” Â
WHAT?????Â
WHEN, IF EVER DOES THIS HAPPEN IN THE WORLD OF SELLER AND BARGAIN HUNTER.Â
Of course, adrenaline filled, greedy bargain hunter that I am quickly starts scanning her front room to see if there is anything else she wants to sell me for cheap. Â
Nuthin. Â
Oh well, I shouldn’t expect a miracle to strike twice!Â
What kinds of funny bargain hunting experiences have you had? I want to hear them all!
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Cant' wait to see these babies redoux-ed!
Great find. : )
~Tina
Wow, $5. Those would look great redone for a teenagers room, my daughter would love it. Will be waiting to see the final version.
Woohoo! Don't you JUST LOVE those great deals??? I can't wait to see what you do with them.
Lovin' your blog ;-).
those are cool I bet they will look great redone.. I was at a thrift store a few weeks back and saw this rocking chair. I asked the guy how much. He said make me an offer. I told him I only had $6 on me. He said he could do that. I looked around some more and 20 minutes later I went to pay. He said What did we agree on? I said $6 and he said No Its $5 So only a buck but every dollar counts