12 Apr
2001
12 Apr
'01
4:32 a.m.
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.