[Noisebridge-discuss] Weird Stuff Safari:

[RyanC]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Jonathan Foote <jtfoote at ieee.org> wrote:
> At the risk of being negative, I would recommend keeping expectations down.
>
> Weird Stuff, like most of these places, auctions off the really good
> (and weird) stuff, and the rest is pretty well picked over by folks
> who know what they are doing. You can find the occasional gem but most
> of their inventory is kind of dusty and crappy, and often oddly
> expensive. (Weird Stuff in particular seems a little too attached to
> their stuff to actually haggle.)

This has not been my experience.  I've found HD44780 LCDs there for $1
each several times, as well as any cable I needed and random fun
stuff.  The as-is area is, as I said, a lot of fun to pick through.  I
have found them willing to haggle over as-is stuff.