Goodwill/SA/Thrift Store Discussions & Finds

Dandy said:
Yes, good work! There are fewer thrift store finds here because the health and safety laws make it very difficult for charity shops to sell electrical goods.
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Brings a tear to my eye thinking how many quality & often easily repairable items go to landfill... Even the rubbish dumps/recycling centers aren't allowed to sell stuff anymore!
 
Cogsinister said:
In the UK the "Kenwood" trade name was taken by a food mixer company, so they used Trio.
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I should have read more on this company. From wikipedia:

The brand recognition of Kenwood would surpass that of Trio's, and in 1981, Trio decided on using the Kenwood name worldwide and renamed itself Kenwood Corporation in 1986.
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I'm willing to bet that this unit is much older than 1986.:D
 
Ironies

istariknight said:
Brings a tear to my eye thinking how many quality & often easily repairable items go to landfill... Even the rubbish dumps/recycling centers aren't allowed to sell stuff anymore!
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One of the ironies of life is that goodwill rhymes with landfill.
Cool.
Srinath.
 
Goodwill today show your goodwill card and you get a scratch off, mine was for 20% off. Today there were some choices. Harmon Kardon receiver avr203 49.99 and a matching hk DVD 101 for 9.99, but I didn't buy that saw a Nakamichi cd player MB2s 24.99, could not get it to work. So I bought the other Nakamichi Cd Player2 for 19.99 with my 20% off 16.99.
They were going to toss it because they could not get the tray to open, so I flipped it over and switch the lock to free...works perfect... Needs a remote but it does sound quite nice.
 

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istariknight said:
Indeed, bargains are hard to come by over here. You get dreamers asking 200% more than somethings worth on eBay & everyone thinks theirs are worth that much too :thumbsdn:

Just makes it sweeter when you do find one !
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We get that here too. Last summer some fool paid $180k at a Barrett Jackson for a VW Samba van. That's $198,000 for a 21 window bus. Now everybody thinks there beat-up rust bucket bus is worth $30k.
 
chard306 said:
Goodwill today show your goodwill card and you get a scratch off, mine was for 20% off. Today there were some choices. Harmon Kardon receiver avr203 49.99 and a matching hk DVD 101 for 9.99, but I didn't buy that saw a Nakamichi cd player MB2s 24.99, could not get it to work. So I bought the other Nakamichi Cd Player2 for 19.99 with my 20% off 16.99.
They were going to toss it because they could not get the tray to open, so I flipped it over and switch the lock to free...works perfect... Needs a remote but it does sound quite nice.
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I would love to have a selection like that at my thrift !!!!
 
Taylor Playe said:
This week's additions:

Polk Monitor 7-B's, fully functional and near mint, $9.99:



Sony STR V-5, Excellent condition, but was filthy inside. Cleaned up great and sounds even better :music:: $20
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I got a set of those Polks for a buck less than you a few years ago, great speakers, do yours have the "Peerless " tweeters ?
 
Cogsinister said:
I got a set of those Polks for a buck less than you a few years ago, great speakers, do yours have the "Peerless " tweeters ?
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I do believe those are the Peerless tweets in the pic he provided. Nice speakers!!! and congrats to both of you for scoring them for such low prices.
 
I got those polk's without drivers but with that radiator for free few months ago, and gave em away to a friend cos he had a polk set that had the same drivers but no radiator and it had a split cabinet.
Swap em and boom boom away.
Cool.
Srinath.
 
So far I have bought a Yamaha CR640 in great condition... A Yamaha KX400U dual cassette deck,

My all time great find was a set of EPI speakers. I didn't know what they were at the time. I did see they had electrostatic tweeters. Floor models. Picked em up refoamed em. Stat 450's. I paid about $20. I saw a pair on for sale online at $650 Without the grills. These speakers are beyond unbelievable.

Running a Sansui S-X700, Pioneer PL 50 with a Stanton 881EE and the Stat's. Every album is another adventure.
 
Pioneer SX-424

Paid $20 :)

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I didn't buy either of these things but I recently saw a Sansui CD-V350 CD player at one Goodwill (I believe they wanted about $30) and a Yamaha T-300 analog tuner at another Goodwill. I have yet to make it to the Salvation Army here in town.
 
Radio Shack Optimus 5

Yesterday I took a chance, At my local Kiwanis thrift store Here in Cape Coral FL there sat 2 Realistic Optimus 5's in very good condition, found a butter knife and pried off the grills, Yes excellent! Loved the looks of those speakers. No I never ever considered Realistic a real speaker. Marked $8 each I offered $6 per. At home I hooked 'em up to the old Sansui and hit the switch. Wow did they sound great? better than my Sansui or Advent speakers. A little Old English on the cabinets and they are now a fine addition to my stereo system. Optimus 5 these are real sleepers.
Conch
 
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Captn Conch said:
Yesterday I took a chance, At my local Kiwanis thrift store Here in Cape Coral FL there sat 2 Realistic Optimus 5's in very good condition, found a butter knife and pried off the grills, Yes excellent! Loved the looks of those speakers. No I never ever considered Realistic a real speaker. Marked $8 each I offered $6 per. At home I hooked 'em up to the old Sansui and hit the switch. Wow did they sound great? better than my Sansui or Advent speakers. A little Old English on the cabinets and they are now a fine addition to my stereo system. Optimus 5 these are real sleepers.
Conch
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:thmbsp:

used mine for a while...recently replaced them with klipsch heresys . Moved the optimus 5s to the home theater.
 
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