Re: Let Down at Goodwill

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here in NC, the situation is the same. i got a few good deals at one place
 close to my house; colour monitor and two disk drives for $15, and platinum
 //e and monitor and disk drive for $25 at another place and various other
 cheap machines. after a while i noticed they went up on prices because id
 usually go in and buy whatever appealed to me. lately, theyve been pricing
 according to the weight of the machine. they wanted $75 for an old ibm ps2-80
 which is only a 386. evidently, the metal case and extreme weight made them
 think it was a "powerful" computer...

>On Sun, 19 Oct 1997 18:10:00 GMT, 
>Brian Hammack  <brian.hammack@rook.wa.com > wrote:
>
>>
>>Of course, a black Marks-A-Lot pen can help to drive the point home, as
>>I had to do with the two Atari 7800's at the Goodwill next door after
>>two weeks of them occasionally "visiting people's houses overnight".
>>DO NOT BUY, DOES NOT WORK is usually enough for a literate customer.
>>
>
>A similar incident happened at Value Village here this past Spring.
>
>There was an ancient Mac on the shelf, no hard drive, 400K disk drive 
>and probably only 512K RAM.  The keyboard had a missing key as well.  
>It was priced at $179.95.
>
>A few days later, we noticed that someone had written 'Not Worth It' 
>right on the tag.
>
>Not long after that, we were talking with this guy there who has 
>started asking us about what things should be priced at since we are 
>in the 'collecting scene', and he told us the Mac finally sold after 
>they knocked $100 off the price.  I don't remember the full reason it 
>went, but I remember him mentioning that the guy who bought it was 
>plan on using it for some special purpose in his workshop.
>
>

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