[Boatanchors] Mystery Power Supply - available (Rob Atkinson)

Robert Nickels ranickel at comcast.net
Wed Sep 20 10:50:02 EDT 2017


On 9/20/2017 8:02 AM, Bill Henderson wrote:
> I would call that "gifting"...

There's a well-known junk seller that comes to all the Illinois area 
hamfests who unloads a huge pile of what looks like you'd find at the 
curb on trash day, including old TVs, CB radios, laptops that don't 
work, etc.   But he's a character and we've "reverse hamfested" him for 
years.     Once I had an old Dell laptop battery that wouldn't hold a 
charge and put it onto his table when he wasn't looking.   Another guy 
saw me put it down, figured I'd decided not to buy it so he picked it up 
and asked the seller how much he wanted for it.   "Five bucks!" was the 
reply and money changed hands.

An example that proves it's not always a "crappy thing to do".

73, Bob W9RAN



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