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WackoPaul '
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On Sunday, we found Colchester Reef for retail. I have already read the book that was included. It was great!

Jakers

Wish me luck!! Next week we are diving from Seattle to Salt Lake City and have mapped out all the HL dealers along the way with plans on visiting every one. Since this is an Inland trip, hopes are high for a good find or two, and a the very least this should earn me a true Wacko status.
Buy On
Tucker

Tucker,

If you are mapping out dealers on a trip, you are definitly a wacko.

Moby

Tucker

Don't forget to print up enough retired@retail lists to keep track of the retired pieces, then send them to retired@retail (Rick) on your return. Write down the name and town on the sheet on the way into to the store, that way if the store has some they aren't listed on a sheet with no name on it when you get home. Also remember, what may not be a find for you, could be a find for a fellow collector. Good Lighthousing!!


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Tucker
Have a safe trip -- good to see someone else from Washington state on the forum
Ladybug

I recently got a Big Bay Point for a very reasonable price. I'd been following the market on them for over 11 months.

Just got a Navesink 3-digit for $158 including shipping.
Originally didn't think much of the piece because of size. When I got it, and was able to see the detail upclose(I would never have attempted to pick up the HL at the dealer), it became an immediate double WOW for price as well as detail!

I found Heceta Head at a good price, in Pinetop Arizona of all places. Bruce at A Family Afair has another Heceta #1250. He also has many retired ones with three digits after Heceta Head. At first I was hesitant to mention it but you all seem so willing to share your finds. This place is out of the way and Bruce has been so friendly to me so I hope you contact him. He'll send you a list. I will post of Retired@Retail today as well. I hope to buy Gosse Point and Bald Head from him this week. He had four on the not available list from Retired@retail but I don't his list in front of me right now. One is Heceta Head. I believe the others were society pieces.
Dale

We just started collecting since Feb. this year and we recently got Big Bay Point @ 1/2 off their secondary price for $125. We thought this price was excellent.

Yes that was an Excellent price. WTG

After visiting 16 retailers in 4 states I am comfotably home. This is what I saw not already on the retired at retail):
Mich. City (Spokane) $61
Stamp Set with stamps (Spokane,#A982) $275
Blue Legacy (Boise) $63
Rose Island 616 (Boise & Spokane)
Sanible Island (Missoula)
Gray's Harbour (two twist variation)(Salt Lake City)
PT Fermin 2 (both in Boise one I could not talk into selling, one had it's ball chipped)
Lots of Hillsboro
Although my wallet hand twichted many times I bought only a Membership Spyglass set (Billings $55, the price on this suprised me after all this is a lady who wanted $90 for a New Canal)
Good stuff is out there HAPPY HUNTING
Buy On
Tucker
Oh Yeah, I saw some future relatives and saw some stuff at Yellowstone (stinky boiling water, so what ;-))

Tucker
Glad to hear you have your priorities right!
Who need stinking steaming water when you have all those HL's to find.
Dale

I have to let you all know the find I found this week. Helen Jewlers in Helen, GA has the retired piece Morris Island then and now $154.00. 1-800-859-6199 Really nice people there. They had so many other HL to chose from. Just wanted you to know.

Amber

There are a lot of Morris Islands out there at the retail price. My wife just put a set on layaway for me for Christmas. Check the retired at retail list. Should be some there at $150 for the set.
Dale

Missed this forum: I found Navsink for 1/2 off. Now that I can handle. $120.00 verus $240.00. Now I can look for my Anchor Bay's at half off.

wtg Dodad! I also found Navesink at half-off, but when I returned the following day to buy it, it was sold! Teach me to always have a Mastercard with me!

Jeff,

Tell you better then that. I had a dealer here that I bought most of my HL's from. Decided he was going to drop the line. Sold all of his 50% off including his Anchor Bay's.

You think he called me to tell me he was doing that. NOOOOO......But he called me when my pieces came in.

Needless to say I'm sick.

Well, even though Navesink was sold, I did manage to get Cape Agulhas for a mere $35, and 2 ornaments at $7 a piece. The owner told me she has a half price sale on all nautical merchandise twice a year, which includes HL. I also got a promise to be notified first in my town when she has the next sale!!

Good move...Jeff Keep us in mind for those you do not need.

Jeff,
Sure would like to know the name of that dealer with the twice a year half price sale. Are they in the DFW Metroplex area?

The Wishing Well in Fort Worth used to have a 20% off sale once a year on everything in the store. That store is now under new ownership, so don't know if they will continue the once a year sale.

It's called the "Gift Garden", and it's up here in Allen, just north of Plano. You can look them up on the HL web page, and if you call them, they will add you to their mailing list. Or you can wait till I start bragging about all the great buys I'm suddenly getting!

BTW, I just noticed that Tom and Joyce's response to me put them over the edge! They are oficially Wackos now!!! Congrats to my fellow Texans!!

Thanks Jeff. Can't believe we finally made it. We'll give the dealer a call. Promise to let you, as a fellow Texan and soon to be WACKO, have first choice on any bargains at Gift Garden.

Since you are talking about regular sales.
Check Doll Boutique in Albemarle NC. They have a 25% off on all collectiables twice a year. Usually June and October. They are on the HL list.

Not a lighthouse but...Last week while visiting a number of dealers I saw on a shelf the 1992 West Quoddy button. Having seen these sell on e-bay recently I immediately picked it up. It was on a plastic stand that had a price sticker of $1.50. I explained to the clerk that I would like to purchase the button. Well,to make a long story short,the owner said if I bought the stand for $1.50 they would give me the button. Anyone have a use for a small plastic stand? They probably only sold it to me because I had purchased a lighthouse just minutes before seeing the West Quoddy button.
We left pleased with a 1992 Harbour Lights button and a Gray's Harbor lighthouse. Yes it was a variation.

Warren

While in Long Beach, WA on vacation we picked up a Grays Harbor variation at Long Beach Pharmacy. When they opened the box to pack it away tucked inside was a blue velvet pouch with a Beavertail thumbnail inside. Two finds at once. Must have been our lucky day.

Cape Canaveral, FL (LE) at retail!

An almost great find -
Round Island, Mi., Dark brown brick color, Flag # 424, and at regular retail.
Dealer remembered why it had not been sold - at the place where the water and rocks meet the ground around the building was a very large crack. It was not all the way through, but very noticeable. I cried all the way home.
However I have to go back to that dealer - I think I saw through my tears a Boston Harbor with the 'u' in Harbour. I will let you know.

Jim

Last week purchased I purchased "Round Island" (brown building) for $42 dollars. At a Hallmark store in Tennessee. (IT was and still is, MIB.) Don't know why it had that price on the box but they honored it. (Didn't ask too many questions.) Also found a Navesink at $125 at another store. Seems like our trips now are centered around HL dealers. (Probably would never had purchased the Navesink at the retail price, but like others have said, when I got it home and looked at it, the detail was unbelievable and I am glad I have it.)

Rusty

Usually don't post anything here because I don't have the luck that many of you have had. I did, however, today get Tarrytown, Longships (I really like this one), Cape May and Old Field Point for retail minus 10%. Paid the tax at least with a little left over.

This past Friday, I came across an Old Mackinac Point at RETAIL! When the lady came back from finding the box, she told me that she would have to sell me the the display piece because "it was the last one she had"! Don't you just love these these dealers in small out of the way locations who have no idea what they have! She didn't have much else except for the newest pieces.

There's a huge dealer in northeastern Ohio, Hartville Collectibles -- they have everything you even considered collecting. Last month they had approximately 10 HL models at 25% off. Of course I bought two right away, and then went back a week later and bought three more. After all, if you buy three, the fourth is just about free in retail terms!

A Great Find?

As per an earlier post of mine here I did return to a local HL dealer and did find the HL402 Boston Harbor with the misspelled Harbour. Flag number is very faint, but appears to be A174. I purchased it at retail. I don't know if this is really a 'great find', but I think I did good. Sorry I can't/won't post this dealer in retired at retail, but I hope to buy some other retired pieces they have. I know I am being selfish, but hey someone has to look out for me and it might as well be myself.

Good night from the three of us, Me, Myself and I.


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Jim

Dr. Who ?

Jim I hope you never made use of Retired@Retail. You know the old saying one hand washes the other. It nice to take care of yourself, but it nicer to take a little for yourself and leave a little for others. Dennis

I bought a Cape Florida on ebay, delivered for 21.00 I was pleased.

Hey Donna,
Been to Hartville Collectibles a few times before. That is where I originally bought my first Point Fermin and Sunken Rock a year or two ago. Small world!!

How about "almost great finds". In a store in Washington State over the weekend and spied a bright red tower sitting in the corner of the shelf. Yes, Jupiter at retail (actually $1 less) - in all it's chipped/cracked glory!!! Enthusiasm waned real fast when you saw the condition and realized why it was still there.



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Ken T

P.S. To an earlier post -

Too make everyone not be mad at me about my not putting a dealer in Retired@Retail -

This dealer is a very small store, no more than 25' by 60' and very crowded with display cases and unopened boxes everywhere. At most they have 12 HL pieces, about half retired. And those pieces have all been in the same position in the display case for the past 4 months. I asked and they are not interested in shipping all over the country just to sell the items.

Sorry to have offended anyone.

Jim

Jim, I understand your reluctance to share the info with the further info. It changes everything. I did not think before I wrote. I read again and I sound way sanctimonious. I'm no angel. I accidently gave a lead to retired@retail and found out later thru another collecter that they did not ship, so I wasted several people's time. . Live and learn. Dennis

Not so much of a great find finacially but my local dealer has 12 different models with the same number. #581 I have three of them now and he is holding the rest for me until payday. That will geive me 1/3 of my collection with the same number.
Dale

That's a nice number, Dale. Your dealer must have an autoship of that number. I usually get a number between 440 and 442 on the HLs I receive. Kind of makes you wonder about who gets the same number every time, like numbers 11 through 99. Maybe I'll start a new thread to see if anyone will let us know.

Bob

That's a major coup Dale!
Matching triple digits without being a long time automatic collector at that dealer!
I think, you've got the best find so far?

Dennis -

We all at one time or another type/say something without thinking. My response was not only for you, but for all the other people here who I want to keep as friends.

I probably could have worded my comments better also. The great thing about these forums is we get to write these great makeup messages and go on from here to better things. Many times we do not get that chance when something is said in person.

I currently know of only one dealer large enough to be willing to help Retired@Retail, but they are a 2 hours away from me so I do not get there often enough to keep tabs on their stock (about 75 different items). The dealers in my area only stock from 10-12 items (smallest dealer) to 30-40 items (largest dealer). These dealers only receive a few pieces at a time and then only 2 of each. If a collector is looking for something special, it must be ordered which seems to take about 2 months. That is why I hesitate to put them in Retired@Retail.

If anyone is really looking for a special piece, e-mail me and I will check around and maybe work something out. I will do that for my fellow collectors. I have also had good luck placing a 'want ad' in the Marketplace forum when wanting an item not found localy and not listed in Retired@Retail.

Here's to good friends and great collecting.

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Jim

Dr. Who ?


Oops, there I go putting my foot in my message again. I hope I don't find 500 e-mail messages in my mail box requesting I look for 'a special item'. My e-mail provider will charge me extra for a larger mailbox - Ha,ha.


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Jim. I appreciate your candor. I've purchased several items thru R@R and I was able to send them some leads when I visited shops while on vacation. I agree that it does no good to get someone's hopes up only to be dashed by the reality that the dealer does not want to deal with all the negative sids to shipping items. It works if they do it all the time, but if it is not usual for them it's a pain. I've just found these forums and I'm not well versed from other sources. I'm a newbie to "chatting" or whatever you call what we do on these forums. Don't wory I won't send you an e-mail, at least not yet. Maybe later I'll take you up on your offer. Denis

Overtime, I needs lots of overtime.

This week I found, all under retail:

Hillsboro, St George's Reef and Currituck.

The St. George's and Currituck are missing boxes, but the price was right. Now, if I can only get them off layaway and home, I'll be really happy.

Joanne

On a trip to the NJ shore a few weeks ago I ran across several good buys. The best was a LE Grosse Point at retail! Also able to give R@R a few leads.

Rich

Does the new AB USCG 44' MLB at 15% off qualify? I hope so!



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Ken T

There is a dealer near my home, Nagle's, in Florissant, Missouri. My husband bought me a set of Keepers and Friends there for my birthday. They are selling this set for $30. They also have a Spyglass set of the New England series for $50 (approximately)- it has been marked down several times. If you are interested in these items, they do ship! If you call, you can ask for Mike (owner) but any of the other ladies at the store can help you. They are my favorite HL Dealer! Let me know if you get anything from them- I'd like to know if your experience is as pleasant as mine!
Chris G.

Just returned from a trip to VA. for my Grandfathers 90th Birthday and visited 5 HL dealers along the way. Got Bolivar ,TX LE for 68.00. Also found Fire Island NY both the Glow and LE .

Lonnie

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A friend pointed me to a Pt. Arena for $98, and that includes shipping. I hope it arrives in one piece.

The second thread on Great Finds has reached the magic number of 50, so it is now closed but please continue posting your finds here:

PART III

and if you want to go back and look at part one:
PART I