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      <title>What to check before you flip a thrift find</title>
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      <description>A thrift-store sticker is not a profit. How to identify the item, read its condition, and leave room for fees before you list it on eBay, Poshmark, Mercari or Facebook Marketplace.</description>
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      <description>A garage or yard sale sticker is what the seller hopes for. How to tell a real discount from a used thing that costs about the same as new, before you haggle or walk.</description>
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      <title>Estate sale finds: what the tag leaves out</title>
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      <description>An estate sale tag is the company’s ask. What to look at on the object itself, and how a photo gives you a second number before you buy a find.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>1st Edition, Shadowless, Unlimited: telling Base Set apart</title>
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      <description>The three English printings of the Pokémon Base Set look alike at a glance and are priced far apart. Here is how to tell them apart in under a minute, without a loupe.</description>
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      <description>A graded card and a raw card can be the same piece of cardboard at very different prices. What graders look at, what a slab proves, and when grading is worth the fee.</description>
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      <title>Box and papers: what a watch’s paperwork is worth</title>
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      <description>Why a full set sells for more than the watch alone, what counts as papers, and where to find the reference and serial numbers that tie a watch to them.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Two cars of the same model and year can be thousands apart. The handful of facts that explain the gap, in rough order of weight, and which of them a photo can show.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>A picture from the street shows the style, the era and the upkeep of a house. It hides the three things that price it. How to read one, and what to ask next.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Fill level and storage: how a bottle keeps its value</title>
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      <description>A wine’s label says what it was. The fill level, the cork and the storage history say what it is now. How buyers read an old bottle from the outside.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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