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Location: NJ | my best score
a pair of neumann km-84 for $1 ea
along with a
sennheiser 421 for $1
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akg d 1000 for $1
I handed the guy a fiver he YELLED at me because he did not have any change and I told him to keep it and walked away. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Mr. Big wins. I've never scored any prize at a yard or garage sale. Mostly just old crap that eventually found its way to the dumpster. I'm still looking for that Broadcaster relic. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I can't stand them. I drove clear across town to buy a Nordic Track. Waited till the garage opened and the guy had sold it the night before. When SWMBO has them, I leave and she sells my stuff, like all my classic cassettes of Kenny Loggins, John Denver and Simon and Garfunkel. Caravan Rubbish bought them all for $5. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I can't stand them. I drove clear across town to buy a Nordic Track. Waited till the garage opened and the guy had sold it the night before. When SWMBO has them, I leave and she sells my stuff, like all my classic cassettes of Kenny Loggins, John Denver and Simon and Garfunkel. Caravan Rubbish bought them all for $5. At least she didn't sell him your Eva and Izzy cd's. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I didn't know about them until I joined this board. I think it might have been Cliff who pointed out that Iz sang Rainbow in a movie soundtrack. A friend gave me a cd of his recently. I seems to hang out in a group with poor taste. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | My dad picked up a Stelling banjo for five bucks one time. It was a four string, but it's easy to change the neck on a banjo. At that time, I was just a beginner and felt the banjo belonged in better hands than mine, so Pops sold it to "cousin" Dave. Dave got it for a good price, and Pops made a little money, and I could kick myself now for not accepting it, but Dave is a much better banjo player than I'll ever be, so it's just as well.
I have a guitar student who bought a nice early 70's Washburn for fifty bucks. I also bought a Gibson B25 for 35 bucks once, but it wasn't a yard sale. Guy had an ad in the paper and I thought it must be a mis-print. I called and he said it wasn't a mis-print but someone was already on the way. I asked for directions and then drove like a maniac, but I got there first, so I bought it.
Mostly I just buy books. But I do love yardsales. I just can't see paying full price for new when you can pay a TINY fraction of the price for used. And besides, you never know what kind of interesting stuff you might find. Yeah, it's junk, but it's NEAT junk. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Mark, that's brilliant. Did Trailer Trash also buy all the Karen Carpenter lps too?
Iz was great! That was a 6 string uke he played on "Rainbow" I thik. |
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | Both of these two systems came from two different estate sales within two miles from my home..
McIntosh c-22 preamp
McIntosh MR-71 tuner
(2)McIntosh MC-60 amps
The turntable is a Empire trubadour 698 that came from a yard sale..
This pioneer complete rack system with amp,tuner cassette deck,reel to reel and turntable came from another estate sale.I had it cleaned and adjusted.All works great now.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | We might still have our Carpenter lps. SWMBO thought we didn't have a cassette player when she sold our cassettes, even though it sits between the receiver and the cd player that she uses most every day. She knew we have a turntable because she dusts it. That's how she broke the stylus that I replaced when I got the seeing eye dog lp.
We sold a bunch of our lps at a white elephant auction once, though. Some kid asked what records were and her dad told her they were "big cds". She was the only bidder and got them. Karen might be in there, but the kid probably never figured out how to play them.
Iz was sure a big guy. Probably died of heart failure. He dwarfed that uke. Maybe I should get lanaki to translate some of the songs on his cd. |
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Location: Michigan | about ten years ago my home stereo cassette player broke so i went to abc appliance and best buy to replace it.in both places the sales kid looked at me like i had 4 eyeballs and said i dont think that we sell those anymore.i dont know which store it was but they had one left so i bought it.
now what i dont understand is if i am so out of style buying a cassette player than why are turntables becoming a sought after item and the prices on some are into the thousands :confused: go figure.GWB |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I have a used Denon turntable that I bought from my ex for $100 when he upgraded. Unfortunately, it is hooked up to an old Zenith amplifier. It works, and I don't listen to music very often anymore anyway. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | For awhile, all the turntables seemed to be used for scratching by rappers or hip hop or whatever those people are. Now the hifi crowd is back into them and some really high quality records are being produced. |
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | Record albums are definately back in and good vintage turntables are going for pretty high prices..Even Marantz and McIntosh are making turntables again..I was reading somewhere on the net that they pressed about 1.5 million more albums this year over last year..They also mentioned that teenagers are discovering LP's and listening to vinyl.They are discovering what they missed and buying turntables and albums.They went on to say that records will outlive the CD due mostly to internet downloading and reduced CD sales.
Here is a pic of a current Marantz turntable that i bought recently.After about 25 years they released a turntable again.Looks a bit strange but sounds great.
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Location: Pennsylvania | I picked up a turntable last year for $10....and plays 78's. Most that are made these days don't. I still have my stero I bought in high school. But it's bulkier and the power button doesn't work properly. Only way to run the radio and the CD player I attached to it is to power up the turntable. Now I only need the 'new' turntable to play the collection of 78's I got from the folks....some of them old originals like Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" and Gene Autry's "Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer".
I don't have much time for garage sales these days, but they are a wonderful way to recycle. One persons junk is another persons treasure. I furnished my first apartment almost entirely with great quality garage sale finds. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | At a garage sale, about 20 years ago, I picked up a 1972 Fender Precision Bass with case - $50AUD, about $30USD at the time.
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