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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have bought some great things on CL:  An antique wool rug, a Queen Anne reclining chair, a glass coffee table, etc.  [b]I always buy from homes that look clean and inspect things carefully before taking them home.  I have never had any issues.  
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I also have gotten some things at estate sales: a side table, and smaller things like a snow shovel, cooler, and other random stuff.  Estate sales are great for getting random house stuff other than furniture because they usually include items from the whole house.  [/quote]

You've merely been lucky. A *knowledgeable* visual inspection would likely reveal signs of a large infestation, but if the main population of bedbugs is harboring elsewhere in the home, there could still very well be a couple of hitchhikers on a rug from another room or in the crevices of a piece of furniture without much to announce their presence. And sure, there are all kinds of reasons you'd only want stuff from a home that looks clean, but bedbug infestations really have more to do with exposure to bedbugs... for which trading in used furnishings is actually a fairly high risk. [/quote]

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