[drh4683]

NEVER show any excitement when looking at something they have that you really want bad!

No kidding, I got really burned by the seller at the estate sale that both of those space command table sets came from. You all know Ive been waiting to find one of those for litterally 10+ years in a table/portable version. I couldnt hold my excitement in! There was no price on either tv, even though neither of them really worked when I found them. The jerk running the sale says
"$150.00 for both" I said $100.00, and we split the differance. Still way too much for estate sale material but I got what Ive always wanted so I still won in the end. Ive normally been pretty good about not really caring.
The best is when you find a set you really like and it doesnt work, or you do something to it to fool the seller to make them think its defective. Ask them how much then start playing around with it, they will see it doenst work. They always drop the price, then you start to show lack of interest. I always tell them I am a tv service tek. Then they normally say "well, is it worth parts" Thats when you get it for dirt cheap. However sometimes you get one of those morons that thinks the dust inside the tv is causing all the problems, or its because there is no antenna so they still wont budge on the price. Bring it home, readjust the controls you threw off and there you have a nice set for $5.00!! Another one of my favorites is when a set doesnt work at the resale shop (like an IF problem), you bring it to their attention and they say "well, we dont get a good signal in here because of the metal beams in the building". So big deal if you take advantage of the people selling the sets, those people could really care less about an old tv. Its payback for ripping me off in the past! And of course my favorite line from those estate sale people: "what are you going to do with it?"