Yardsale shopping at the prosumer level.

It's quite common to find a multi-family yardsale outside of an apartment building in Los Angeles such as this one being held by a gymnastics instructor and her neighbors

As my shadow looms over her right ankle like a hypercardiod hawk, a taxicab driver quickly shops in between fares

On several occasions, Roscoe would pick up something at a YS that the crew would quietly request for themselves

Roscoe smiles smugly at the packaged goods on sale- clearly a retailer

Roscoe tells us that the camera's presence affected negotiations on occasion by making some vendors nervous while making other vendors eager to please- which is why he avoided this vendor in favor of the smiling female vendor instead

Sometimes it was difficult to avoid getting crew in the shot at a YS since everyone at TUF loves yardsales too


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