Re: Let Down at Goodwill

[bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major)]

Brian Hammack <brian.hammack@rook.wa.com> wrote:

>  Chet outgassed at BJ:
> 
>  NC| : The Salvation Army store in Tacoma doesn't
> 
> There is more than one.  The one on South Tac, no - never; the one on
> 6th may have but they closed recently; should be others in Tac?  

I don't know of any other Salvation Army locations in Tacoma other than
the South Tacoma Way store.

> The one
> in Sumner sometimes does, the one in South Hill has been known to, and
> I'm told the new one in Kent/Des Moines does get some electronics.  A
> friend who worked at the Bremerton one said they do get them too.  (So
> there could be a difference between Pierce County and the nearby co's?)
> 
>  NC|  Many of the junk (Thrift Stores) ceased carrying computer
>    | equipment as they dod not understand it.  Considering the prices
>    | that we have been discussing maybe it is not much of a loss....
> 
> I can't say "many", I can only say Salvation Army.  I have no problem
> finding computer equipment at Value Village, Goodwill, Shop & Save,
> Bargain World, St Vincent de Paul (or the big stores; the small ones are
> lucky if they get TI994A cartridges), Deseret Industries, and the
> smaller chains (like Unique Bargains, Tacoma Thrift Centers, Thriftko).
> It's the ma-n-pa places which are more geared toward antiques [the
> places on 6th Ave in Tacoma, BJ] which aren't very computer literate.

I don't shop at those particular places on 6th Ave.  Never have.

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