14 Jul
1997
14 Jul
'97
5:17 a.m.
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Jeff Kaneko wrote:
Some of these surplus stores have real turkeys running them. That's why
Weird Stuff fell from glory. They always had cool stuff (they had a
couple Lisa's when I went there in 1993) but they always wanted
ridiculous prices for the crap. I mean they had stuff going for $50 that
nobody would take at a flea market for free.
Some people just have no business sense...
Sam
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Funny you should mention these guys. I don't uderstand how they've
managed to stay in business! I *really* needed a couple of 8" floppy
drives a couple of years ago when I lived in San Jose. They had a
pile of them -- for $75.00 a whack! I didn't bite.
They were gone a couple of weeks later, I asked what became of them,
and they said that nobody wanted them, so they were scrapped!