Amount spent: $9.00
Comments: stopped at a sale across from 25th St duplex being held as a fundraiser for the USMC club. It was early afternoon and we were the only customers, and the two men sitting out in front of the sale told us to just "Make an offer" on anything we were interested in, and to keep in mind that everything was 1/2 price because it was getting late in the sale. So we spent some time browsing and came up with some odds and ends that looked interesting. When we went to settle up with the women taking the cash, the story changed drastically. They wanted top dollar for everything, telling us this was our opportunity to donate to Marine Corps veterans, and repeatedly asking us if we knew what various objects we'd selected went for new. We wound up buying most of the stuff we'd picked out for more than we'd planned to offer after spending some time hashing the women down quite a bit from what they wanted. Thinking about it later, we should have just left the lot and walked away. Felt like a real bait and switch with lots of unpleasant pressure and insuations because we weren't interested in donating a lot to their cause. The reason we were interested in any of the stuff was because we like to keep things we think we might use (for a reasonable price) out of the landfill. An hour after we left this stuff was likely bound for a local thrift store, and eventually, most of it, to the dump. And as far as "giving us an opportunity to donate to their veterans" maybe it is a newsflash, but that opportunity was there long before their sale...and my experinces today totally soured me on their cause. Sheesh, who wants to go to a high-pressure garage sale anyway???
- hardcover, Asterix book
- softcover, Walter Foster book on Color
- flash attachment for an old camera
- silk jacket and pants
- bag of empty plastic bottles
- power supply
- paperback, Charlie Brown's Brown Bag Cookbook
- stack of various style recipt books
- zippered CD case
- stack of old postcards and a few new greeting cards/envelopes
- bag with 3 alligator clips
- 2 hairclips: red "dolphin" and blue
- ball of twine
- pkg of hardware pieces
- several partial pads of drawing paper
- booklet about a National Park in New Mexico
- more drawing/typing paper
- brass peephole for a very thick door
- decorative red wire
- plastic lumberjack jumping bean
- small handful of pens and pencils
- adhesive backed magnetic strip
- small bag + 2 tubes cheap beads
- some needles and t-pins stuck in a card
- part of a trailer hitch with ball
3 cats helped with cuuh logging today!!
