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Originally Posted by jstout66
I'm pretty sure "another cheap brand that showd up at discount stores", as I remember seeing them at different chains in this area back in the day.
I had a friend that owned a used/consignment store for years, and most, but not all, older people were the WORSE to deal with. They would often have unrealistic expectations of what items are worth. Yes... you may have paid X amount of dollars when you purchased it, but today no-one wants that item, hence the price would be lower. Couches used to be another itme we hated. Yes.. it may be in like new shape, a major name brand, but.. it's also horribly ugly. We finally had to be blunt, because she knew if we had too much overpriced items, they would sit in the store... taking up room.. forever.
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I used to have old people get insulted when I offered them $10 for their 20 year old non-working console TV. One old woman laughed in my face, followed by the statement that she paid $1100 for the TV and there was no way she was going to give it to me for $10. She also had to tell me how beautiful the cabinet was and that someone would pay good money for it just for the cabinet, followed by the statement, "It just won't turn on, there can't be much wrong with it". I reminded her that the TV was 20+ years old, no longer worked, and that she'd gotten her money's worth out of it, and that I was taking a gamble on it even being worth repairing, and that, regardless of how pretty the cabinet is, it's not worth much if it doesn't work. My reasoning usually did no good. All these people are thinking about is what they paid for it and when they are that hard headed, there's no changing their minds. All one can do is walk away because it's usually a waste of time trying to reason with them.
Then, there are loads of other people who are all too happy just to have someone get the TV out of their way and they'll almost pay you to haul it away, instead of expecting to be paid for the TV.
I think the issue with the Teknika TV is that she's yet another person who thinks it's worth big money just because it has some age on it and looks slightly odd looking.