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A Wing and a Prayer

clubesquire — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 01:01:41 GMT

...is about where we’re at with our inventory.

I’m quietly confident and far too excited that the sell is on. We already have the order and have set aside a good proportion of our pre 1980 items, and the man will be here in the first week of December, but only for two days instead of the week, so its going to be full on stressballs all round.

Agreeing on price in such monster numbers is always hard and so stressful it’s debilitating, so please wish us luck that this is truly the last time.

I’m wishing our lives away and can’t wait to be in the second week of December and if it happens I’ll be black and blue with pinch marks 🙂

Melina.

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k1ooo-slr-sales — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 01:13:25 GMT

good luck Melina

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the4masters2013 — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 02:09:49 GMT

You've worked very had for this. May everything work out for you!!!

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stickerswa — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 02:11:29 GMT

A situation many of us wish we had to contend with ! Hope it all goes well (and it will) .

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kopenhagen5 — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 02:44:43 GMT

Is this the same Sth African gent coming back again ?

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gumleaf_goodies — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 03:17:01 GMT

I wish I knew what you are talking about....

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kopenhagen5 — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 04:32:43 GMT

clubesquire has a large stock of high end quality pipes for sale and as I understand a gentleman is flying in from OS to make a very substantial purchase order.

Hope I got that right Melina.

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clubesquire — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 06:28:26 GMT

Oh sorry!! Yes, that’s right Kopes. It feels like only yesterday I first wrote about this, but time has got away a bit.

We’ve had a bit of good fortune along the way with a fellow from Japan as well, but by golly, we worked very hard for it. It involved hundreds upon hundreds of pics from every which way. Not an easy one. Oh, there would have been over 1,000 I’m sure and a hard drive melt down in the middle of it. And a lovely Aussie bushman from a little place not too far from us up here, Allora. I think I’ve spelt that right.

If we can get this across the line we’ll probably re-brand ourselves, go for a store, and start reducing all the other ‘stuff’ we’ve collected over some 59 odd years - all currently taking all the precious space in storage in what is supposed to be a garage for our motor cars .... lol.

And thanks for your well wishes. It’s lovely of you. Fingers crossed, but it does all look right.

Melina.

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chameleon54 — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:16:43 GMT

I have to admit, even I felt a twinge of excitement for you Melina when I read your posts. Such exciting news and I truly hope it all works out for you. I trust you will still visit the forums occasionally when you are lying back, sipping your Martinis in the Bahamas after the big sale.

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clubesquire — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 22:19:48 GMT

Barry gets a bit cross with me, but I can’t keep secrets .... lol.

But, we’ve got lots n lots of other ‘stuff’, so we’ll give a store a shot for a while I think, and see what happens. Sales are slipping here a bit though I think. We’ll still have enough pipes to keep us going for awhile anyway. There are some that he has no interest in.

All progressing nicely 🙂

Melina.

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clubesquire — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 01:37:12 GMT

We’re well on the way 🙂

The sorting and grading has been a 24/7 job. We’ve not had time for much else. It’s very hard and you need to be brutally honest in appraisals. Sometimes we’re not sure if we are doing ourselves a disservice or not. Thankfully too, we are dealing with a gentleman, hard when it come to price as it should be I guess, but a nice man nonetheless. We’ve received a ‘Good Will’ payment. Something we didn’t ask for and indeed have never heard of.

This place is tobacco pipes from one end to the other at the moment. Messy, but very exciting 🙂

Melina.

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clubesquire — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 01:58:36 GMT

It’s done and I can’t contain my excitement, even with all the obvious neglect of things over the past week or so.

We did it. WOOHOO!! Excited and relieved.

And the mess of the aftermath. OMG! We’ll still be packing for awhile yet and until that’s done the mess remains. Ugh!

Well, we didn’t quite move as much as we’d anticipated, but about 3/4 of it, so we’re still talking big numbers. Barry’s going about business as usual, like as if nothing outstanding has happened. Men!!

We’ve still got plenty of pipes that will keep us busy for a fair while yet, but the pressure and worry is gone. This also means a bit of a new direction for us now, but we’ll have a few quiet weeks over Xmas to think it all through, in among a few wine o’clocks I’ve got planned .... lol.

Sometimes Dreams, or parts of them, do come true 😊

I wish everyone else the same good fortune.

Melina. (Dipitty doo dah 😃)

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countessalmirena — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 11:12:01 GMT

Melinda, I'm so pleased for you.

When I get back in front of my computer, I will find the special Woohoo flag emoticon that I made for a friend, and the Clayton the Woohoo Moose emoticon as well.

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countessalmirena — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 21:08:54 GMT