[Noisebridge-discuss] Weird Stuff Safari:

[David Yao]

Did I miss a date for this safari somewhere?



On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 6:20 PM, d p chang <weasel at meer.net> wrote:

> RyanC <ryan at ryanc.org> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Jonathan Foote <jtfoote at ieee.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
>
> the one thing that irritated me about weird stuff was the 'fenced off'
> area (this was a little while ago so i'm not sure it is setup this way
> any more). there was a list of things back there, but unless you knew
> exactly what differentiated a fooby-mark-v from a fooby-mark-v.1 getting
> someone to let you verify anything was a pain.
>
> oddly, i once worked at a place that unloaded a bunch of stuff to them
> for what seemed to be 'by the pound' rather than take the trouble to
> sell stuff to the employees.
>
> > 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.
>
> yeah. i think they're more likely to haggle than halted, and more likely
> to have stacks of bits on display (halted might have stacks but maybe
> not sitting on the floor).
>
> \p
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