Re: New Apple II BBS

["Laine Houghton" <laine@@@intergate.com>]

Next time inform them what a wonderful service you are providing by offering
to remove the hazardous material from their property.

You might mention if you discover such things in their dumpsters you'll have
to report it.


"Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bvsa5k$vf06h$1@ID-198131.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > Hardware has gotten out of hand at the thrift store I scan as well.  I
> don't
> > know if they expect somebody to ever pay that much or if they send the
> stuff
> > to auction after awhile if it doesn't sell retail.  All I know is the
> stuff
> > I scoff at is no longer there when I go back a few weeks later to check
> for
> > new goodies.
>
> A so-called "Rescue Mission" here ticks me off all the time.  One time I
> went in there and they had a couple of GS's sitting on their
> shelf...bare-bones...nothing special.  I'm always buying that stuff if
it's
> reasonable.  But they had these GS's priced at $80 each.  I explained to
the
> manager of the store what they were worth and offered her $15 for both.
She
> stated that their prices are non-negotiable.  A week later I went back to
> the store and just out of curiosity I looked in their dumpster.  There
were
> the GS's.  Looked like they were smashed with sledge hammers to keep
> dumpster divers from getting them.  They had other things in there also.
> Mac monitors with the cords cut off, Apple II Disk drives also with the
> cords cut off...  Seems to me they could lower their prices and accept a
$15
> offer and make more money than they do destroying the stuff and throwing
it
> away.
>
>