TV's at the thrift stores

[llcvt15]

Thrift stores are strange places indeed. There was one guy in town who made a living cleaning out estates and delinquent rental properties, he ran a small shop out of an old auto garage selling the stuff he'd get. I kept him in buisness for a while I'm sure, one of the more interesting things I bought (to the folks in an electronics forum at least) was a 1975 Zenith Allegro stereo with the original speakers. Still works good and I use it daily. He used to let me buy literally truck loads of stuff for $20 just to get it out of the way. I also always stopped by after hours to dig thru the dumpster, so many cool things just didn't make the cut to get put on the floor...

The Salvation Army in town still knows me by name, even though I'm not nearly as common of shopper as I used to be. In one corner of the store they'd have a 80's fridge for $250 and in the other washing machines for $35. The pricing didn't always make sense to me. And I agree with everybody on the junk in the record bin (swear if I find the Goodyear Christmas album one more darn time...). They also would offer me interesting deals, "well, that one TV is $40, but all six of them are $20"... They also would "hide" antique radios and things in the store so they could sell them to me when I'd come in later...

I guess the only thing I learned was go often and make friends with everybody if you want to make a good deal...