[GreenKeys] All Electronic Closing

[Harold Hallikainen]

I remember getting printed catalogs from All Electronics (I assume it was
the same company). It does seem like a difficult business to be in.
Determining what to price stuff at and how much to pay for the stuff is a
challenge. And, if you are going to sort stuff, write descriptions, take
photographs for a printed catalog or a web page... even more work! But I
do like "saving stuff from the dumpster."

There was an interesting store in Indiana we found while visiting my
sister-in-law. The store bought truckloads of surplus (appears to be
mostly retail returns). On Wednesday, everything in the store was $5.
Then, each day, the price was marked down a dollar. I imagine there was
some stuff they could not even give away at the end, and I don't know what
they did with that. But, this "reverse" or Dutch auction has always been
interesting to me. I've sold several things on Craigs list that way.

Here in Tucson, we are lucky enough to still have an electronic surplus
store AND an electronics parts house (
https://elliottelectronicsurplus.com/ ).

Harold
https://w6iwi.org