ok,i THINK it's a zenith chromatic or something like that...it's solid state,color,AND has the original paperwork with it,goin for $79.99..i was impressed with it and if it werent for the price and what not i woulda picked it up myself.to me it's similar to a CTC-20,but then again i dont know too much about those models...the thrift store i found this at was a Volunteers of America,it's off of Hamilton road here in columbus (by the eastland mall, just turn behind Arby's and you'll see a Bally's and a Chucky Cheese and all of that,so it's just a ways from there..) i'll be sure to take and post some pix as soon as i can, i just had to pick my girlfriend up right after i found it,otherwise i would have went back for my cam! :)
frank

Thrift store--$79.99---what doesn't seem right here? We are lucky enough to have a thrift store here that sells most TV's for 5 or 10 dollars. This store (Helping Hands) uses all of the proceeds to help the poor...the staff of the store is volunteers or people doing community service. You should see the amount of people that shop there! More thrift stores should learn that they would make more money if they sold stuff for a fair, inexpensive price, rather than try to gouge people.

In my experience, thrift stores would rather try to sell one 30-year-old TV for the price of new Chinese junk, than sell 10 of them for $5.00. :thumbsdn:

Anybody ever notice the oddball prices at Goodwill? Like $173.47 for a couch, or $3.19 for a dish? Do they have some kind of simple math training program that I'm not aware of? The prices don't have anything to do with sales tax either. :scratch2:

well,i must say,you guys dont mess around when i post somethin!i saw it yesterday,said i was gonna take pictures of it today and i walked in (just after they opened) and she's already gone! and at that price,too!but she was a beauty and worked well for an older color set...oh,and i FINALLY remembered the name of it!! Chromacolor II!!! that's what it was lol i tell ya,i kinda wanted the set for myself! hopefully she found a good home :)
frank

That seems unusual...in these parts you could not sell an older set for that much, even if in good working condition.

Very good set, BUT priced way to high for a thrift-store. It's the same here in Omaha tho. The Goodwill and Salvation Army stores have EVERYTHING priced way to high. I think they have watched too much "Antique Roadshow" as everything is marked "vintage" with a high price tag. The Goodwill in my area doesn't even seem to care if the tv's work anymore. They just throw them out on the sales floor. The last time I looked at a set there, it was a "newer" 32" Mitsibishi. It had a single line across the screen and they had it marked at $100.00. I don't know what's up with Goodwills "odd" pricing.

Like I said earlier the local thrift store "Helping Hands" has the best prices and the best charitable outreach here, but prices at our Goodwills are pretty decent. Yesterday I bought a Sanyo b/w tube type set at GW, needs a little work but pretty decent picture, for $1.99. Computer monitors, keyboards, most printers, computer CPU's generally are $1.99 each too. Saw a working 1980's color set for $3.99. The market will not bear high prices here.
The SA can be higher but I did buy a good Story and Clark piano with organ for $29.99 at SA, just needed a little work. Got an electronic Baldwin piano for $10.

Our thrift store prices run the gamut. An '80s vintage 19" Sony generally goes for between $20- $50 (sometimes up to $75); an average RCA console will fetch between $25 and $100 if it works.

The Goodwill has very few TVs, and the ones that do come in are 19" Emersons or something. SalArmy is hit or miss but you can find a nice set for about $40 if you're there on the right day. One of our two VIA stores always has at least one RCA or Zenith console handy, and our Family Thrift generally has the oldest sets and best selection, with some sets dating back to the mid '70s.

The store I most frequest here in Chicago are Village Discount Outlet stores, they are a branch of Amvets. There are no Goodwill stores here, though there are of course Salvation Army and many independent stores. The Village Discount stores have the best prices, and though they are messy, have the best sleection of vintage electronics. I've gotten a whole collection of 1960s tube and early transistor clock radios from those stores, all for $3.00 of less. I've gotten some Tvs from them, though they have less old TVs than radios. Their pricing is a little strange at times, it seems like whatever they feel like, though it is mostly very reasonable. The only problem is that they write the price with black perment marker, so people don't change them. This is VERY hard to get off, espically on the plastics that Western Electric phones are made out of, another thing I collect from those stores (I found a product called Bestine that is used for thinning Rubber Cement, which works very well). The worst is when they write the price on a radio's paper label, since thet will never come off. Salvation Army used to have old TVs, before I was intersted in them :sigh: , but now they only have newer stuff. Salvation Army also has higher pries than the Village Discount stores, there is one store in particular that is near downtown that has outrageous prices (Thoug I did see our Mayor Daley there giving a speech about the homeless, the only time I've seen hime in person). I one of those page-a-day calendars there for $4.00, and was about to buy it, when I realized it was for last year, and they had just put them out... :screwy: