There once were lots of decent thrift stores, but, over the course of the past
year or so, there seems to have evolved some sort of corruption. The best
thrift store in Denver is the ARC (Association of Retarded Citizens) chain store
on South Broadway. What's been happening far and wide is that the folks in the
stores are stripping the systems of hard drives, memory, and interesting boards
and marking the remainder at above market prices. The result is that they end
up in the dumpster, after not selling for several weeks, where the help later
snags the, for whatever purpose.
Where, a couple of years ago, I used to see all manner of MAC's for example,
Quadras, LC-whatevers, (I neither know nor care about MAC's but I do know they
aren't mix and match like PC's.) etc, for $5-10, now they're priced at $50-$60,
which is more than a truckload is worth, since most don't work. Moreover, it's
a problem for MACs because the keyboards, monitors, and mice are normally
separated from the systems they came in with, and sold at a premium price in
addition to the ridiculous price for the main box.
You never know, though, and you'll not find much if you don't look.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Williams" <dlw_at_trailingedge.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 5:34 PM
Subject: Places in Denver
> I'm traveling up to Denver from Houston soon and wanted to see if
> anyone knew of some places to check out for old systems while I
> was there? What are the good thrift store chains there? Any other
> places?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> -----
> David Williams - Computer Packrat
> "When the mind is free of any thought or judgement,
> then and only then can we know things as they are."
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Received on Wed Apr 11 2001 - 19:01:59 BST