collectin depression was:Re: A Tragedy Averted

On Wed, 21 May 1997, Paul E Coad wrote: I suggest trying all the thrift shops within a 25-30 miles radius of your house. The thrift shops in my town have yieled one IBM PC manual, and that's it. Very frustrating. Then the other day while travelling through a city over the hill I decided to try a couple thrift shops there. So I found some in the yellow pages and made a visit. It was well worth it. I picked up a TRS-80 CoCo2 for $.99 (yes, ninety-nine cents) and an Atari 800XL with a 1050 drive for anoter $3.98. Plus some other miscellany. The other thrift shop yielded about 3 C64's, 2 commodore disk drives, an intellivision, an Atari 5200, 2 Atari 2600s, 2 Odyssey2's, a TI-99/4a and some sundry carthridges for all the above...total bill was $32. I managed to talk the proprietor down from the $10.99 to $45.99 they were asking for each unit to $5 each, and then I got a 50% discount on top of that. That's another suggestion...learn to bargain. It's always in your best interest to bargain. Figure it this way: it's probably something you're not going to walk away from anyway (especially if it's like an Osbourne 1 or something) and you may as well get at least a couple bucks knocked off of it. Sam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Historian, Programmer, Musician, Philosopher, Athlete, Writer, Jackass