Originally Posted by
miriam
There is an old dealer in our area that think$ hi$ $tuff is gold plated. Maybe they went in there and looked around and $aw one like the one out in their $hed and figured their$ might be worth that much, too.
We have one of those too! He's an older dude that we refer to as the "Troll" He looks and acts the part. Friendly enough unless you want to buy something from him. The he gets all crafty looking and refuses to give a price. And if you make an offer, he's smirk and say "you'll have to do much better than that".
His shop is filled with neat old machines and just about every old Singer attachment out there (all covered with a layer of dust too). He's been in business for about 40 years, and bought it from someone else so he's got a lot of "new, never used" items. We got to talking to him and he wanted us to consider buying his shop - but I expect he'd want someone to pay for that imagined pot of Gold in the back room too.