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| Good Advice on Finding American Girl Dolls for Cheap Online
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Added on 10/25/08 by betsy
I have some advice for you guys if you are hunting online for American Girl items on the cheap. My daughter has 7 of the dolls and I also buy them all the time to sell. The most I have ever paid for a doll is $30, but that was for Lindsey the first girl of the year which I sold for $250. The last one I bought was Elizabeth for $1, the lady didn't care because her overindulgent mother-in-law had bought it as a gift for her daughter. People always ask me how do you find American Girl stuff at garage sales? Well, this is how: 1. Craigslist, if you just go onto Craigslist for your local area and click the link for "for sale" type "American Girl" into the search box at the top of the page. You will find American Girl dolls not only for sale in the "items for sale" section but also the garage sale section. Since Craigslist is free and newspapers charge per word some people go into great detail in their listings and by typing "American Girl" into that top search box you will pull up all the listings that have American Girl stuff. Another bonus of finding it at a garage sale, no shipping cost! People also are selling American Girl stuff in the classified and while some is kinda high Ebay priced, I found a woman selling 6 dolls and an Armoire for $125 for everything, she was a mom who thought played with dolls. . . (read post) |
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| How to Clean American Girl Doll Skin
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Added on 08/23/08 by Betsy
Dont you just hate it when you see that promising peek of tan cloth body at a garage sale and get all excited only to find the poor American Girl doll you have pulled out of the stuffed animal bin looks like it should be begging for 35 cents a day on late night tv?
How do you remove that gross layer of kid grub from AG skin?
I use Magic Erasers, they are totally remove the gross grimey stuff leaving clean limbs behind.
How do you fix their hair?
My mother advises washing doll hair in fabric softener so I am going to give it a whirl on the old Pleasant Company Molly I bought for a dollar today. I will let you know what I find.
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| Garage Sale Season Ends and the Holidays Begin
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Added on 11/03/07 by Betsy
This is my favorite time of year. After the Dirty Nurse costume is packed away for another year and before Aunt Trudy, the original Dirty Nurse shows up for Thanksgiving, it's clean out the house time.
The time of year when people call Empire carpet to freshen up for the Aunt Trudy. And how can sweet Aunt Trudy squeal with jealousy over the new Berber if she can't see it?
Time to take everything to Goodwill.
For the Ebay seller it is when we kick it into high gear, clear our calendars and hang out all day at the local thrift shop. It does seem strange that people would wait until the frost hits to clean out their house, but with holiday fast approaching Goodwill will fill with large toys, TVs, stuffed animals and clothing as people make room for the new.
Any mom looking at the Toys R Us Wish Book becomes increasingly clausterphobic at the idea of being surrounded with additional hunks of purple, pink and blue plastic.
Your job as a Suburban Recycling Professional is to turn those forgotten 2006 Little Tikes kitchens, American Girl dolls and Fisher Price Loving Family Dollhouses and market yesterday's trash as Christmas morning treasure. Good luck people.
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| A suggestion for Ebay customer service...
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Added on 08/07/07 by Betsy
I don't function in a normal, social, human environment.
After years of hovering over a keyboard late at night singing the
praises of whatever item I found by the side of the road that day the
last thing I want to deal with is a bitchy grumpasaurus customer.
Email tends to bring out the worst in people, or it could be that other
anti-social crumudgeon types like myself prefer to shop without social
interaction so the grumpy asshole quotient is higher.
I got accused of selling a fake bag this week.
What made me really frustrated about the whole deal was that she never
contacted me to express her suspicion and request a return. She didn't
even email me and threaten me with a negative.
She just left me a neutral and said she bought the bag under the assumption it was real and it was not.
I emailed and emailed and she totally blew me off.
The bag was real, but the serial numbers of Kate Spades are easy to miss- still she could have emailed me back.
Now the worst...
My sister and I started a business selling a local company's catalog
returns/store displays etc- they only have one outlet so it is a good
situation for us.
A customer got her item from us, and wasn't happy.
Did she contact us and ask for a return?
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| American Girl Warehouse Outlet Sale Details!
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Added on 06/30/07 by Betsy
This is the info straight from the flyer laying on the couter at the American Girl outlet in OshKosh Wisconsin:
American Girl Warehouse Sale
June 21-24
-Bitty Baby Outfits
-Assorted Fisher-Price Toys
-Doll Outfits & Accessories
-New Items Arriving on Saturday
Warehouse Hours
Thurs,Fri, Sat 10-8 Sun 9-5
Warehouse Sale Site: 2105 Koeller Street at Aviation Plaza, OshKosh Wisconsin (Northwest of outlet store on east side of highway)
I can't go due to my niece's first birthday party. If you go, email me at thesmithmall@hotmail.com and I will post your review of the sale.
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