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

[John Flood]

I had three boxes partly full of "Stuff" left near closing time several "Near-Fest's" ago in NH.  I declared that it would not go home with me and marked it free.  Some of it went away but one of the guys with me laughed and said he'd bet me $20 no one would take it all away before we left.  I took the bet.  One of the usual scavengers came buy and was poking through the stuff...  Take it all i offered...  But other guy said some other people may want some.  I put a $5 bill on top of the box and said here take it and the five bucks as well!  He was puzzled and said really?  Yup I said... he smiled and ran off with the treasure box.  Your man who made the $20 wager was delighted and said you paid $5 to get rid of the stuff.  I said no I sold it for $15 and asked him for the $20 I just won from him.    
John Flood N1JAF

      From: Robert Nickels <ranickel at comcast.net>
 To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net 
 Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 10:50 AM
 Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Mystery Power Supply - available (Rob Atkinson)
   
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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