What's in your hand?
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You may be
sitting on a gold mine,
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stay tuned to find out more.
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My name is Yvonne Lewis and
you're watching Urban Report.
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Hello, and
Welcome to Urban Report.
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My guests today are
Bruce and Tammy Chance,
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3ABN's Donation Managers.
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Welcome to Urban
Report, Tammy and Bruce.
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Thank you for having
us on. Good to be here.
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It's so good to have you.
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You know, we often don't see,
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especially those who
are in our viewing audience,
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don't really know what
goes on behind the scenes
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and how this ministry
is able to stay afloat.
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And one of the
major departments at 3ABN
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that really helps this
ministry is your department,
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the donation department.
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How long has that
been in existence?
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Probably 13 years.
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Danny did a
program and talked about
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what do you have in your hand,
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and it was just an
overwhelming response
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and they weren't prepared,
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he had no idea that
was going to happen.
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And stuff started
coming from everywhere,
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and so it was overwhelming
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'cause there
was no one in charge
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and no program or anything.
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And so we came in
and developed a program
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and a database
for the computer...
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It's been trial and
error, and work as we go.
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You know, it's been a
real learning experience,
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but we kind of got it
pretty much ironed out,
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how we need it now,
and the great this is,
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is we're one of the
very, very few ministries,
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may be the only
ministry that does it
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in the manner that we do it.
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And it's a lot of work,
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but it's
lucrative for Three Angels.
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And when you
say in the manner...
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Well, first of
all, first of all,
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we should go back
minute just in case you say
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anything else about Danny.
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The audience might need to
know that you're Danny's sister.
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Yeah, most people know that,
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and that's what I
get most of the time,
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you're Danny's
sister, you're Danny's sister.
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One guy told me at
ASI, he said, you have,
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or you're Tammy?
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And I said, somebody
actually knows my name,
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instead of Danny's sister.
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Right, you have
your own identity, right?
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You are Tammy Shelton Chance.
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That's right. Yes, absolutely.
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So when this
whole kind of movement
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started with the
donations department,
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it just kind of came
from out of the blue.
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Exactly.
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And you guys ended up
heading the department,
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how do you do it differently
from most other ministries?
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Well, I'll let Bruce
answer that question.
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Well, Yvonne, we take
such a wide array of items,
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so many
different types of items,
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and over the years we've
studied into these items,
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to know, to get
their true worth,
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other ministries don't
have the man power to do that.
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And we've been blessed through
3ABN to be able to do that.
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So what kinds of
items do you accept?
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Well, I have a little
bit of a list here, but um,
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we've changed it as
the years have went by,
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and we see what's
easier to turn over,
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what's worth
more, we take coins,
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we take silver, gold,
platinum, we take sterling,
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diamonds, real jewelry,
gold and diamond watches,
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we take sterling silverware,
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anything
sterling really we take.
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We take vehicles, real
estate, vintage sports cars,
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old pocket knives,
and recently we've learned
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that vintage
Barbies is the way to go.
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We are going to
talk a little bit
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about that in a
little bit of while.
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Yeah, we take
the vintage Barbies
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and her family, but then again,
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I say vintage, we
need it from the 1960's
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the ones later on is
not worth the trouble.
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But, also their vintage outfits,
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that are in good
condition, and the Tressy dolls,
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the ideal dolls.
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And we take instruments,
and china, and that's just,
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you know, we take other things,
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but that's things
that we can turn over
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and do pretty good.
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So explain why this
is important to 3ABN,
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to the actual continuing
of the Ministry of 3ABN?
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Why is it important
for somebody to send you
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an item that they have,
let's say in their homes
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or something that
they no longer want?
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Well, actually the
program started with Danny,
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and he got the
idea that, you know,
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so many people want to support
the ministry and, you know,
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they're not on fixed
incomes but they have something
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in their hand
that might be valuable.
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So people started
sending these items in
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and we trying
to be good stewards
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of the Lord's work here,
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we study into
those items to make sure
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that we get top dollar
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for each one of
these items that comes in.
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It's been a great blessing for
the Lord's work here at 3ABN.
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That's great.
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What someone might look at
home and say, you know what?
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I'm not using this anymore,
or this has great value,
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but I want to give
it to the Lord's work,
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they can send it to you,
and then you can sell it.
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How do you sell it?
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How do you, what's
the process with that?
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Well, I have an eBay store,
it's called 3 Angels gift shop,
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and all the items that I
work with usually go on there.
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Bruce has a lot
of private buyers
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and other outlets
where he sells the jewelry
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and the coins, and like that.
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Some times, we put
some of those on eBay,
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but through the years
we've kind of perfected
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what's the best method
of selling certain items.
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And so both ways,
with the private buying
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and with the eBay has
worked out really nicely.
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And that's great 'cause
it's not just one thing,
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you guys have figured
out by the grace of God
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where things should go.
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So eBay might be the
best outlet for the dolls,
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but the sterling silver,
private buyers or whatever.
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Exactly.
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So it's not just one route,
you several different avenues-
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Avenues. Yes, that's right.
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So what is that you
here? Tell us about this?
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Well, this is a silverware set,
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which we've got
several of these over the year
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and we turn them into
a good profit for 3ABN.
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When people send them
in, we like getting that--
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If they're sterling,
we like to get sterling--
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You know, mostly sterling
is the higher end stuff.
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It would be help to,
probably to the viewers
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if you told how to
identify that's sterling or not.
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For sure.
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Most everything that's sterling,
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if you look at the fine
print it will either say,
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925 which stands for
the percentage of silver
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that's in the sterling.
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Or it will say, it
will be printed sterling.
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Now it's in fine print,
and sometimes you to get your
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20 powers out to
find it, but it will,
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generally they will
be bragging on the item
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because it is sterling,
and they're printed on there.
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This item is an 18
carat consolation watch
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and of course
this is a diamond ring,
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which we've got a lot
of those over the years,
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especially people, the
new coming into the church
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that has the jewelry,
and they give the jewelry up,
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and what better avenue,
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but to give it to
the Lord's worker 3ABN.
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That's right. Amen.
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You might want to
explain the jewelry situation
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so that people understand.
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We always like to make it
clear because we can enemies
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real fast on jewelry.
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Well, you have to understand
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first of all it's been
a great blessing for 3ABN,
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all the jewelry
that's been sent into us.
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And we like
getting that jewelry,
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but you need to understand,
when you go and buy at retail
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from a retailian, the
many chain stores that sell it,
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you're paying top dollar
and as soon as you walk off
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from the
counter, it depreciates.
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Kind of like a
car, huh? Exactly.
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Worse than a
car, percentage wise,
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but that's just the way it is,
that's the nature of the beast.
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So if I sent you a diamond ring,
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and you sold it, do I get
a receipt for the donation?
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Like is there a
tax write off for me
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or besides obviously,
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the benefit of
giving to the Lord's work,
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which in of itself is great,
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but do I also
get a tax write off?
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Absolutely, we have
a database established,
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and it's a long
process that we go through
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when someone donates
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they're assigned a
constituent number,
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their items are inventoried,
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they're put in the database
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under that
constituent number and the name,
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and what date it was given,
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and what estimate we give
for what it's going to bring.
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Once it sells we go
back into that database
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and say that it is sold
on this date for this much.
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Those reports go to
our accounting department
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and we issue a thank you
letter which can also be used
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as your tax deductible
receipt for each donation.
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Oh, that's great, that's great.
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So when you say you've
made some enemies about jewelry,
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tell us how that works?
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Like, why do
people get angry about it?
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Well, I don't blame
them, when I started doing this
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may be 14 years ago, I was
not versed in jewelry at all,
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and so I've got
an education now.
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So and what we deal
with also, Yvonne is,
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we deal with
current market value prices.
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The internet is a great
source to research item with,
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that's one good
side of the internet.
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But to answer your question,
we've had so many items
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over the years,
you know, of course,
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I've got diamond
testers, moissanite testers,
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I've got gold
testers, and like I said,
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I'm quite well
versed with the jewelry
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and knowing what it's worth.
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But when a person pays,
let's say, $3000 for a ring,
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a couple
strolling down the mall,
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and they're getting engaged,
and she pulls her fell over
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and oh I love that ring,
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and they just
buy it sporadically.
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You know, so
they pay $3000 for it,
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I mean, like I say, as soon as
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you leave the counter it
depreciates horribly, it does.
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But I will get
more for the jewelry
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because of my avenues
and way of selling it,
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knowing what, you
know, what I'm doing,
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and what I have I my hand,
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I will get more
than an individual
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could trying to sell it.
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But the problem
comes, most people think
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that it increases in
value, their piece of jewelry.
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They say I bought
this ring 50 years ago,
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so I know it's
worth a lot more now,
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and when you have to
tell them that it may possibly
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be worth a third of
what they paid retail,
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they many times
think that we don't know
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what we're talking about.
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But if they try to
take that piece of jewelry
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and go to a jeweler and sell it,
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they find out real quick.
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Yeah, yeah.
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What he will not give them for,
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he will offer them a
pitifully small price, so--
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The thing of it is, is there
are exceptions to everything.
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There are rules and
exceptions to everything.
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The exception with jewelry
would be the larger diamonds
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will hold a greater
percentage of their value,
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when I'm talking about larger
diamonds is a carat and up,
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will hold a greater percentage,
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they still depreciate,
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but they do a greater percentage
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of their retail price.
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Do you guys
accept costume jewelry
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or all diamonds and--
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We have
accepted costume jewelry,
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but once again as
long as the people know...
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I also have a lot
jewelry that's sent to me
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that is costume and
people think it is real jewelry.
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That could cause some
problem I would imagine-
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Yeah, but we prefer the
real, there's just not that,
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we can't get that
much out of, you know,
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the costume so
we prefer the real.
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But it's that way with
all of our items as far as,
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like he said there's exceptions,
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but with the invention of the
auction sites on the internet,
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that takes the
value out of things
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that were hard to
get, that were rare,
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that were
antique, now you go on them
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and they're on the
internet sites by the thousands.
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So naturally that
drops the bottom, way out,
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and I usually will use a
hummel figurine as an example.
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People back when paid two
and three hundred dollars,
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four hundred for these
little hummel figurines,
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you go on there now you're
lucky to get $30 out of them
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because there are so many on
there and you have your pick.
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So the eBay sites, and
the other auction sites
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are a good tool to
get real market value,
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what really somebody is
willing to pay for that item,
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that's a good
measure of where to get it
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because you got people
from all over the world,
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say on eBay, and
they're bidding on that item.
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And you see where
that's actually going to sell.
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And that way if you
look in your manual,
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say you have a hummel manual,
it's still going to say that
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it's worth two or three
hundred, not realistic at all.
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If you have a doll
manual, it's going to say,
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people will call
and say, I have a doll,
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and the book says it's worth...
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Doesn't matter
what the book says,
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it's what people in reality
are going to pay for that item.
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Let's talk a little
bit about the Barbies
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because it's interesting
how that all came to be,
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tell us how that happened?
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We had a phone call
from a man, a gentleman,
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that his wife had
died and he said that
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she was a
collector of all things,
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and so I questioned a lot
about what those things were,
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and it sounded like
she had a lot of stuff
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and he kept mentioning Barbies,
00:14:05.87\00:14:08.31
but he didn't
know much about then.
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He said, he thought
they were older barbies.
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And so I thought this
would be worth going to,
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to get the items, I think,
'cause they're so many things.
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So we sent a U-Haul down there,
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20 foot and it came
back packed to the ceiling
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more than I could
have ever dreamed.
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20 foot U-Haul?
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U-Haul, pack to
the ceilings. Wow.
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And so many of these
was just loose barbies,
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I would say, naked barbies,
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they didn't have
outfits or anything.
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And the people that
went to pick it up said,
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this is, I'm afraid
it's bunch of just junk
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because there's just all
these naked dolls in here.
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You know, and I'm
like, I don't know
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'cause there are
barbies I remembered
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I'm telling my age,
but back in the 60's
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that I used play with and
we started unpacking this truck
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and as my daughter-in-law
says, that helps me,
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it was like
Christmas 'cause you never knew
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what you we're going to unpack.
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It wasn't just barbies,
it was other vintage dolls,
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ideal dolls, Tressy dolls,
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it was hundreds of pieces
of clothing for the dolls,
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then we started
unpacking hallmark
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ornaments in their
boxes, hundreds of those.
00:15:17.68\00:15:20.92
Figurines, rare
figurines, antique toys,
00:15:20.95\00:15:25.19
just about anything
you could possibly, games,
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and puzzles, and
they were all vintage,
00:15:27.82\00:15:30.43
and so long story
short we began to research
00:15:30.46\00:15:34.10
the barbies and put them on.
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And we got some tremendous money
00:15:36.03\00:15:38.97
out of those
barbies and the clothes
00:15:39.00\00:15:40.74
and we're still not finished,
00:15:40.80\00:15:42.34
we've sold several hundred
and we're still not finished.
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You still have more?
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I have more, and what
amazed me was the clothes.
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At first, I jut the put
the clothes on at random,
00:15:50.91\00:15:53.25
this dress or that
dress, and when I had seen
00:15:53.28\00:15:55.88
what was happening that
there were complete outfits
00:15:55.92\00:15:59.32
and that they
would go for a $100,
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$150 for a Barbie outfit
00:16:01.96\00:16:04.29
so then I
started digging through,
00:16:04.36\00:16:06.13
I'm trying to find
a complete, you know,
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with gloves and shoes,
00:16:07.93\00:16:09.93
and all those things to
make it worth more money.
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So it's been wonderful,
it's been a real blessing.
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That's great.
00:16:16.47\00:16:17.81
Let's take a look
some of the pictures-
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Okay, okay.
00:16:19.21\00:16:20.68
Now what outfit is
that? That is so cute.
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It has a certain name to it,
I think it was going to matinee
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or something
and it sold for $87,
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that outfit, which was,
I couldn't even imagine.
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Eighty-seven
dollars for that? Yes.
00:16:33.99\00:16:37.69
And I think the next picture
we've got is of a fancy doll
00:16:37.73\00:16:41.26
which is one Barbie's
friends, and she went for 66,
00:16:41.30\00:16:45.57
and then we have a
black and white outfit
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again of Barbie, and
luckily I was able to find
00:16:48.94\00:16:51.71
the whole set, I think
it had a hat and all that.
00:16:51.74\00:16:56.91
How cute. Eighty-eight dollars.
00:16:56.95\00:16:58.35
Eighty-eight dollars for
that little bitty dress and hat?
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Yes, can you believe that?
00:17:01.78\00:17:04.75
I won't feel so badly
now when I go shopping.
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Isn't that the truth.
00:17:09.32\00:17:11.69
The next one we have is,
this is called the, I learned,
00:17:11.73\00:17:15.26
as Bruce has learned
jewelry, I learned a lot,
00:17:15.30\00:17:17.37
this is called
a pony tail Barbie
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and her original hair style
is meant to be in a pony tail,
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and she, I found
out she was very rare.
00:17:23.34\00:17:26.11
So this little
doll sold for $242
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our little pony tail Barbie.
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That is incredible
to me, that a doll that,
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you know, you can
just buy at a store,
00:17:36.35\00:17:38.22
well you could have
years ago for what were they?
00:17:38.25\00:17:41.19
$20 or something like that?
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Oh, not even that much,
I don't think, back then.
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And now they're 242,
I mean, that is amazing.
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And there are
people who are collectors,
00:17:50.27\00:17:52.83
who want these items.
00:17:52.87\00:17:55.04
So you become
kind of the broker?
00:17:55.07\00:17:57.07
Exactly.
00:17:57.11\00:17:59.14
The other pictures, we
have another picture now
00:17:59.17\00:18:01.54
and this a doll called ideal,
and these were vintage dolls.
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And these two, they're not
even in that great of a shape,
00:18:06.51\00:18:10.62
really, and they sold $321.17,
00:18:10.65\00:18:15.79
these two little dolls.
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There's some amazing things,
the next picture is a red gown
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and I did have
the complete outfit,
00:18:22.86\00:18:24.67
but can you imagine $157.50
00:18:24.70\00:18:28.77
is what we got out of that?
00:18:28.80\00:18:30.97
Can you imagine?
00:18:31.01\00:18:32.91
I've been telling you
this is making me feel better
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about my sales.
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That's more than I
even paid for anything,
00:18:39.08\00:18:41.35
I can tell you from myself.
00:18:41.38\00:18:43.99
The next one we got it a stereo,
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it's a little stereo,
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I don't know if
you recall a Sindy,
00:18:48.62\00:18:50.43
a Sindy doll used to
be popular in the 60's
00:18:50.46\00:18:53.23
and we got a lot
of her furniture,
00:18:53.26\00:18:55.20
and this was
just a small example,
00:18:55.23\00:18:57.03
it was the stereo and it sold
for $72, this little stereo.
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Wow.
00:19:00.77\00:19:02.10
And then the
next one is probably
00:19:02.14\00:19:03.64
the most amazing of all
to me, it's the Barbie shoes,
00:19:03.67\00:19:07.34
that little handful
of shoes sold for $95.
00:19:07.41\00:19:11.55
Oh, you're
kidding. I'm not kidding.
00:19:11.58\00:19:14.15
But they had to say
Japan, all the later ones said
00:19:14.18\00:19:17.69
Taiwan and different
places, these that said Japan,
00:19:17.72\00:19:20.92
they went for a lot of money.
00:19:20.99\00:19:23.89
That is incredible to me.
00:19:23.96\00:19:25.93
I almost pitched
them, you know, I thought,
00:19:25.96\00:19:28.33
what am I going
to do with these,
00:19:28.36\00:19:29.70
and I thought well, I'll
try and I started them I think,
00:19:29.73\00:19:32.00
at $2 and they went up to $95.
00:19:32.03\00:19:36.57
That is incredible.
00:19:36.60\00:19:38.51
And then one I'm
really, really proud of,
00:19:38.54\00:19:41.08
we have a picture of,
00:19:41.11\00:19:42.44
it's called an
American girl Barbie,
00:19:42.48\00:19:45.68
there's American girl dolls
that are completely different,
00:19:45.71\00:19:48.95
but this was an
American girl Barbie,
00:19:48.98\00:19:51.52
and she's really special.
00:19:51.55\00:19:54.72
They're rare,
especially in good condition,
00:19:54.76\00:19:56.83
she went for $520.65.
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Look at that, look
at all of the money
00:20:00.96\00:20:05.40
that has come in to God's
work through these donations.
00:20:05.43\00:20:10.21
Yes.
00:20:10.27\00:20:11.61
I mean, this is
not just so you can sit
00:20:11.64\00:20:13.94
and sell these
and take the money,
00:20:13.98\00:20:16.81
this is for the ministry.
00:20:16.85\00:20:18.45
Every penny.
00:20:18.48\00:20:19.81
And look at how God is just
00:20:19.85\00:20:21.95
opening the doors through things
00:20:21.98\00:20:23.75
that we might think are useless.
00:20:23.79\00:20:26.82
That's right, and the
man that donated all this...
00:20:26.86\00:20:30.83
his wife had passed very,
very recently, when he called,
00:20:30.89\00:20:34.86
and he said, there's everything,
00:20:34.93\00:20:38.23
but he said, I
know this, he said,
00:20:38.27\00:20:41.37
I'm still
grieving and I probably
00:20:41.40\00:20:43.74
will till the day
I die, but he said,
00:20:43.77\00:20:46.01
I want to give this to you
because loved 3 Angels Ministry
00:20:46.04\00:20:50.58
and she would want
you to have these things.
00:20:50.61\00:20:53.28
And so he couldn't wait for
us to send somebody down there,
00:20:53.35\00:20:56.82
and you know, I mentioned
different things he had.
00:20:56.85\00:20:58.92
He also and the load had, there
was coins, there was jewelry,
00:20:58.95\00:21:03.36
there was things that
Bruce dealt with also.
00:21:03.43\00:21:06.16
And it has brought us
in a good lot of money.
00:21:06.19\00:21:09.96
And we're not
done, we still have
00:21:10.03\00:21:12.00
lots and lots of things to go.
00:21:12.03\00:21:13.90
But I mean, even in
his grief over his wife,
00:21:13.94\00:21:17.57
the first thing he thought was,
00:21:17.61\00:21:19.01
she would want this
to go to the ministry
00:21:19.04\00:21:20.78
and he sacrificed
and he gave it to us.
00:21:20.84\00:21:22.98
That is such a blessing. It is.
00:21:23.01\00:21:25.41
No really, when you think about
00:21:25.45\00:21:27.38
the stories
behind the donations,
00:21:27.42\00:21:30.55
you know, it's also precious
00:21:30.59\00:21:32.29
because God would have
us to give to his work,
00:21:32.32\00:21:36.02
and we all have
something of value
00:21:36.06\00:21:40.10
that we can give to
his work, I believe that.
00:21:40.16\00:21:42.80
Absolutely. I believe that.
00:21:42.83\00:21:44.47
We always asked the
people would call first
00:21:44.50\00:21:46.60
because so many things
it might not even be worth
00:21:46.67\00:21:49.24
the shipping they
would pay to send us
00:21:49.27\00:21:51.57
and though we
hate to tell them that,
00:21:51.61\00:21:53.41
we want to be honest and
not have them waste their money,
00:21:53.44\00:21:56.14
you know,
shipping if it's something
00:21:56.18\00:21:57.78
that we can't get much out of.
00:21:57.81\00:21:59.31
So we always prefer that they
call us and then discuss it,
00:21:59.35\00:22:02.95
and decide if they
should send it or not.
00:22:02.98\00:22:04.92
And this would be a perfect time
00:22:04.95\00:22:06.29
to put your
information up on the screen.
00:22:06.32\00:22:08.66
We need to know,
people need to know
00:22:08.69\00:22:10.83
where they should
send their donations.
00:22:10.86\00:22:13.43
Right. Let's put
that up on screen.
00:22:13.50\00:22:16.73
3ABN Donations, PO Box 220,
West Frankfort, Illinois 62896,
00:22:16.77\00:22:24.27
or you can call (618) 672-4651,
00:22:24.31\00:22:30.01
extension 3078,
or 3079, same number,
00:22:30.05\00:22:36.32
or you can go to their
website giftshop.3abn.org.
00:22:36.35\00:22:43.89
All of those are
options, do it online,
00:22:43.93\00:22:47.36
call, call first though
because you need to find out
00:22:47.40\00:22:51.33
whether what you have
can be used by the ministry.
00:22:51.37\00:22:55.10
And the gift shop,
00:22:55.14\00:22:56.94
it's actually
called 3 Angels gift shop,
00:22:56.97\00:22:59.34
with that little
link right there,
00:22:59.37\00:23:01.08
if you go to the 3ABN website,
00:23:01.11\00:23:03.55
you go the gift
shop there is a link
00:23:03.58\00:23:06.41
and it will click you
on to our eBay gift shop.
00:23:06.45\00:23:09.35
Now is that gift shop,
00:23:09.38\00:23:12.02
is one able to buy
from there right now,
00:23:12.05\00:23:16.12
as well as to send
something to the gift shop.
00:23:16.16\00:23:19.43
No we don't send it to
the, we always send it here,
00:23:19.46\00:23:22.26
and then we do the work
to put it on the gift shop,
00:23:22.30\00:23:25.33
but yes you can buy
there and recently in the last
00:23:25.37\00:23:29.97
six or eight months we've added
many of our call center items
00:23:30.01\00:23:33.94
to the gift shop
and then that way people
00:23:33.98\00:23:36.34
can just look at
sermons and whatever
00:23:36.38\00:23:38.95
and they can just
pay through Paypal
00:23:38.98\00:23:40.88
and it's done, they get it.
00:23:40.92\00:23:42.25
That's great.
00:23:42.28\00:23:43.62
So that simplifies it,
instead of having to call.
00:23:43.65\00:23:45.92
That is great for sure.
00:23:45.95\00:23:48.36
Bruce, we have
some other pictures,
00:23:48.39\00:23:49.92
tell us about that coin.
00:23:49.99\00:23:52.96
Okay, that St.
Gaudens 20 dollar gold piece,
00:23:52.99\00:23:57.20
it's an old coin,
I think it's 1908,
00:23:57.23\00:24:00.44
and it's a great blessing,
00:24:00.47\00:24:03.14
for people who
turn and sacrifice,
00:24:03.17\00:24:05.47
you know, that's a
fairly expensive coin
00:24:05.51\00:24:07.48
'cause the gold
market and the silver market
00:24:07.51\00:24:09.91
is ever changing,
00:24:09.94\00:24:11.28
so but that's a great
sacrifice for somebody
00:24:11.31\00:24:14.22
to send us a coin like that.
00:24:14.25\00:24:15.95
How do you know
when you have a coin,
00:24:15.98\00:24:19.32
whether or not it's just a coin
00:24:19.35\00:24:22.19
that's of value
versus one that is valuable?
00:24:22.22\00:24:26.39
If I have a
bunch of coins at home,
00:24:26.43\00:24:28.40
what would I do to send you,
00:24:28.43\00:24:30.97
how would I know to
send you a specific one?
00:24:31.00\00:24:34.60
You probably wouldn't, that's
why it's important to call,
00:24:34.64\00:24:38.27
and we can talk about what you.
00:24:38.31\00:24:40.64
Of course, I
can't grade the coin
00:24:40.68\00:24:42.68
over the phone
which is very important
00:24:42.71\00:24:46.51
for the price of the coin.
00:24:46.55\00:24:49.08
As a general rule of
thumb, if you want to know
00:24:49.12\00:24:51.59
if you have sliver coin.
00:24:51.62\00:24:53.82
In United States of
America we had silver coins
00:24:53.86\00:24:57.49
that was 90 percent
silver, I'm taking half dollars,
00:24:57.53\00:25:01.20
quarters, dimes up
to 1964 including 1964,
00:25:01.23\00:25:07.80
so 1964 and before was
90 percent silver coins,
00:25:07.84\00:25:13.41
after that point there
were some silver coins issued
00:25:13.48\00:25:17.15
but most of them are clad.
00:25:17.18\00:25:20.12
As far as with
the other type coins,
00:25:20.15\00:25:23.59
it all depends on dates, mints,
00:25:23.62\00:25:28.12
where the coin was minted,
the conditions of the coins,
00:25:28.16\00:25:32.73
and of course the rarer coins,
00:25:32.76\00:25:34.60
the less minted
coins is going to be
00:25:34.63\00:25:37.13
more valuable
for collector stakes.
00:25:37.17\00:25:39.60
What is to you one of the
most interesting coin stories
00:25:39.63\00:25:45.87
that you had?
00:25:45.91\00:25:47.44
Well, actually just
recently a man from Pennsylvania
00:25:47.48\00:25:52.05
came and I don't
know his exact age,
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so don't hold me
responsible for that,
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but he has to be
in his late 80's maybe
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even close to 90 years
old, traveled 16 hours one way.
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He drove himself?
00:26:04.96\00:26:06.29
He actually had one of
his relatives drive him,
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but I think he shared
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in some of the
driving responsibilities,
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16 hours drove straight here
to give us his coin collection,
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which was quite an
extensive coin collections,
00:26:17.64\00:26:20.48
and he knew the
coins pretty well.
00:26:20.51\00:26:22.04
And it wasn't
his first donation.
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Yeah, it wasn't his first time,
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we'd actually may be
nine or ten years ago
00:26:25.68\00:26:28.45
had got a
collection for him before.
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So he said time is short,
00:26:30.72\00:26:33.25
it's time to get
rid of these coins,
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so he drove them all the way,
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and was going to turn
around and try to drive them
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all the way back.
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16 hours.
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So we had a place here
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that we could let
him stay in overnight,
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which I was so glad for that,
00:26:47.24\00:26:49.27
let him rest before
they took their journey back.
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What a blessing, so
it's if you have something
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we have to reiterate,
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if you have something
that you feel is of value,
00:26:58.25\00:27:02.22
that can be of
value to the Lord's work,
00:27:02.25\00:27:04.59
please share it, please send it.
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The Chances are
so ready and willing,
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to take it and sell it
00:27:13.86\00:27:15.60
and put the money
into God's ministry.
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Absolutely, absolutely.
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Do you have a
closing though, 10 seconds.
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We just ask our viewers
to pray about their items,
00:27:23.10\00:27:27.31
and to call us first
and let us know, discuss,
00:27:27.38\00:27:30.05
that we pray
over the items also.
00:27:30.08\00:27:31.78
We want to be good stewards,
you know, for the Lord, so,
00:27:31.81\00:27:34.55
if you have anything please
just call us and let us know.
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Thank you, so much.
00:27:37.82\00:27:40.56
We do accept, one thing we
didn't talk about vehicles,
00:27:40.59\00:27:43.76
we do accept vehicles
and all of these items,
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we will travel to get
items if it makes sense.
00:27:46.63\00:27:50.93
Good, good.
00:27:50.97\00:27:52.30
And I guess
that's operative word.
00:27:52.33\00:27:53.90
Thank you, so
much for being with us,
00:27:53.94\00:27:56.20
we so appreciate it.
00:27:56.24\00:27:57.97
Tune in next time
'cause you know what?
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It just won't be
the same without you.
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