Re: Let Down at Goodwill

["Gary Sutton" <otter@oz.net>]

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.