I was doing a large toy show when I met this person. She bought a number of my items for her brother for Christmas and when she was paying she opened her purse in front of me. There were large wads of American $100 Bills in it. I did not try to look but could not help but do so. She told me how much she had in the purse and told me it would be spent in the next few hours. Sure enough she came back a few hours later and showed me a $10 bill saying that's it for tonight. But have the rest of the money at the Hotel for tomorrow.
I wanted her to adopt me! Told her she would never have to see me just remember me when it was time. She had a good chuckle. She was not pretentious about having that amount of money just matter of fact. Told me she and her husband never had to worry about Money.
Then she told me she was quite embarrassed. She had spent about $25,000 with one vendor buying Vintage Fire Works. Did not have all of them there but was arranging to get them. I congratulated her it was quite the find. She was American and it was a few yrs after 9-11. She said sounded good but she forgot she could not take them back to the U.S. They were restricted. She was going back to cancel the transaction. The Poor Dealer who sold them to her was near me and nearly passed out when she did it. She did not ask for the money back but said she would make it up on other by taking other items he had and did so. As an apology for this she bought another $5,000 of his items on top of it. It made that guys show
I really really wanted to be Adopted by her! She spent a fair amount with me that night but no where near what she did with him
Have Learnt in this business there are people at times that can do these types of purchases easily and don't mind doing so and don't sweat things
I want to be them when I grow up!
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