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sweetana3 08-21-2011 04:08 PM

Avoid Bonham in Indy. They have their sales on Sunday.

Christys is my favorite but I have not seen them sell fabric yet. But I did get a Featherweight there once. He is honest and helpful. Good pictures and normal sales are every Wedensday.

Lawson is also good. He sells normally on the west side around Danville.

I continue to check www.auctionzip.com but am going to keep the drives down due to disappointments.

AKnight 08-21-2011 04:16 PM

Thanks for the advice. I go to auctions to look for fabric and crafting stuff and my SIL comes with me because she sells antiques. I haven't been in awhile though and was hoping to go to some now that it's getting cooler.

QUILTNMO 08-21-2011 05:01 PM

you did right thing by leaving

eimay 08-22-2011 04:53 AM


Originally Posted by leatheflea
Sounds like she might have had someone in the crowd wanting those boxes. Never heard of not being able to look through the boxes. Very odd indeed!

Perhaps. We used to attend auctions and noticed that some of the shoppers would switch items out of one box into another so that they got what they wanted (kind of unethical cherry-picking). I found this out by bidding on a box I had eyed, and when I purchased it, some of what I wanted was missing. Not all auction shoppers are honest. Maybe the auctioneer is trying to keep the box lots intact.


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