The OFFICIAL Thrift Store SCORE! Thread

**kidwoo** · 05-17-2007, 11:20 PM

Fiddy Cents muthafuckahs!!!

**stuckathuntermtn** · 05-19-2007, 09:10 PM

Damn, I'm gonna have to check the good will that opened next to my store. How do you like it, a Good Will opened sharing a wall with our luxury sports store. Gotta love Elmsford, NY [Borat voice] NOT!!! [/Borat voice].

**PolaroidsfromMars** · 05-19-2007, 10:32 PM

I was driving on 9-A and saw the new goodwill next to princeton ski shop as well. score! gonna be stopping there soon.

P.S. Princeton is your store?

**bossass** · 05-20-2007, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by stuckathuntermtn

Damn, I'm gonna have to check the good will that opened next to my store. How do you like it, a Good Will opened sharing a wall with our luxury sports store. Gotta love Elmsford, NY [Borat voice] NOT!!! [/Borat voice].

Don't be hating on Goodwill, young rich one. When I had all the money in the world in HS (no rent, no groceries, no bills, no car insurance, no health insurance, no cable, no internet...literally, etc.--all the money I earned from my jobs was "fun" money) I used to think a $50 shirt for $30 at the Gap was a great deal. Now, when I 'm at a thrift store and I used shirt is more than like $5, I'm like "DAMN!, $5 for this fucking shirt???!!!!" GW and similar stores have clothed and furnished me finely since 1998, and I'm proud to say I no longer shop at the Gap.

**72Twenty** · 05-20-2007, 10:49 AM

I've got a good garage sale score... my 210cm K2 TNC Comps. The thing is, they were mine to begin with. I used to manage a ski shop in the late 90's and we sold used/consignment gear along with new stuff. I hadn't used my TNC's in a while and wanted some new gear, so I sold them for like 50 bucks to some dude that I knew probably didn't need that much ski. But he was trying to impress his wife or something, so he bought them. About 4 years later, the wife and I were at a garage sale a few streets over and I saw this guy had some skis. There they were, my old TNC's. And he was selling them for $5. I knew right away they were mine - same bindings, and a sticker right were I had left it. They looked like they hadn't even been skied on since I sold them. He obviously didn't know who I was, and was talking them up to me as an awesome ski (basically giving me the same pitch I gave him when I talked him into buying them for $50.) I acted like I didn't know much about them and got him to throw in a pair of poles with the skis for the $5. They are now back in my garage, and I basically made $45 for letting him store them in his garage for a few years.

First on the left:

**stuckathuntermtn** · 05-20-2007, 08:29 PM

not hating. Not rich either...just spoiled.
But I'm gonna be out on my own very soon, and hitting up the Good Will. Especially the housewares and stuff.
@polaroids: yup, that's me. I'm there a lot, playing tennis with the rebound net.
got one last pair of Legend 8000's in 172!

**Benny Profane** · 05-20-2007, 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by SuperChief

How much? That thing looks nice. And like my first bike.

**freak** · 05-22-2007, 02:23 PM

i got a brand new suunto x6 for €35.- more than a year ago.
i was looking for some t-shirts when i saw the suunto-box, which maybe had never been opened bevore. the protection sticker was still on the glas of the watch, only the battery was empty... i got a new one for about €5...

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G · 05-26-2007, 05:35 AM

The last time I was at the store, they were selling the 78 inch Elan skis for $2.49 per ski.

I still have a few pair in my garage, still in the plastic.

http://www.twincitysurplus.com/catal...d=8159237.6347

**teleposeur** · 05-29-2007, 11:58 PM

Two free pairs of old stockli asteriod 186s within a month. The old DP model, one was delaming, cost me a case of good booze to get it fixed (thanks lars), the sidewalls are fucked, but they're still monsters!
riding them tommorow...
rule two, damn!

**snoboy** · 06-20-2007, 10:13 PM

This afternoon I scored a pair of 210 Atomic ARC 935 RS/G, but the best part is they are mounted w/ Solly 997 Equipes in yellow, barely a scratch on the bindings. $1.

**bossass** · 06-20-2007, 11:17 PM

Originally Posted by snoboy

This afternoon I scored a pair of 210 Atomic ARC 935 RS/G, but the best part is they are mounted w/ Solly 997 Equipes in yellow, barely a scratch on the bindings. $1.

Good work. Nice LBD ski and binder to boot.

**adam** · 06-20-2007, 11:29 PM

I got a sweet purple flannel for three bucks

**PaSucks** · 06-22-2007, 04:05 PM

Northland Monarchs with Ski Free bindings. One of the first releasable bindings ever made, or so I have read. Free at a garagae sale, along with one bamboo pole.

**single** · 06-23-2007, 05:03 PM

NIW Avalung II - 30 bucks at a j-hole thrift shop three days ago. The one across from ripleys.

Used maybe 3-4 days (demo) 175 Scotty Bob FB's w/ 03's for 200 bucks at a closeout sale.

yeah rule #2. Maybe I will get around to it later.

**skiing-in-jackson** · 06-28-2007, 01:31 PM

Don't laugh that hard

I picked up one of these for $5.00 at Browse & Buy this morning.

Woman not included. Retail on this puppy:

Attachment 28255

I really got it for the kids to play on this summer. But I have to admit that I found it pretty challenging. The first few times I got on it I almost killed myself.

I've seen them advertised in the back of ski magazines??? The kids are enjoying it thus far- so am I. All for five bones.

**Platinum Pete** · 06-29-2007, 08:03 AM

Went to a garage sale this weekend with my brother.
I scored: a Sirius sportster boombox with all the attachments and the receiver. Turned it on to find that the account is still active (likely an annual renewal or lifetime membership!) for $40, and a pair of Scott Goggles, NIB for $5
My bro grabbed a NIB bathroom in wall fan for $8 and took it directly to Home Depot for a $90 in store credit.

You don't need pics of these deals.

**fiddler** · 06-29-2007, 12:30 PM

Went skiing and on the way drove by a garage sale and saw some skis but kept going. On the way back home I stopped and got some nice K2 Fours, 183cms, bindings set for my boot size. $20. I've used them a few times and they're not bad at all.

**bossass** · 06-29-2007, 01:10 PM

Originally Posted by fiddler

Went skiing and on the way drove by a garage sale and saw some skis but kept going. On the way back home I stopped and got some nice K2 Fours, 183cms, bindings set for my boot size. $20. I've used them a few times and they're not bad at all.

The K2 Four is a great shape. My dad lives in WI and even though I passed on some Volkl 724 Pros to him, I think he still longs secretly for my old K2 Stuntman he'd been on before.

**lemon boy** · 07-30-2007, 09:51 AM

on sat I scored a 5hp/24" wide 2-stage snowblower with electric start for $150 at an estate sale.

so be prepared CO - it isn't gonna snow at all this winter, sorry. My bad.

**bossass** · 07-30-2007, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by lemon boy

on sat I scored a 5hp/24" wide 2-stage snowblower with electric start for $150 at an estate sale.

so be prepared CO - it isn't gonna snow at all this winter, sorry. My bad.

But if it does snow, the half-pipe will be in your front or back yard?

**lemon boy** · 07-30-2007, 11:59 AM

halfpipe in the back, quarter pipe in the front.

I am pretty tempted to get all Jim S with it (not in the john) but put on my snowblowing suit and drive around my driveway with it. Maybe I'll use it to blow a pile of leaves this fall.

**Flexon Phil** · 07-30-2007, 12:02 PM

Nakamichi BX1 for 10.00 that I turned around and sold on Ebay for 150.00.

I have a great local Church shop here and have purchased more than one $500+ suits.

**mntlion** · 10-29-2007, 07:51 AM

190 explosives that I found in a dumpster after a mnt bike ride yesterday.

tune em, and sell em.

FKNA

**tex1230** · 10-29-2007, 08:13 AM

1981 Burton Londonderry (the blue one) found behind a dumpster in tahoe back in '92 - wish I still had it - traded it for a case of beer - worth well over $1k now...