Places in Denver

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Thu Apr 12 03:32:27 2001

>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.

Most places like this have vendors sales out the back door. Things get
collected up and vendors bid on them, or many times with computers they all
go in a bin and some one place has a deal to buy them for weight etc.
Received on Thu Apr 12 2001 - 03:32:27 BST