chipmaker
Active Member
Yesterday I was in town and decided to checkout thelocal thrift stores (Goodwill, Salvation Army, Kings Ranch etc etc)
Wow.....what prices n used tanks. Goodwill: They had an old 10 gal tank (typical wally world special for $29.95 every day price) but this tank had an old incandesant type light, with bulbs so corroded in place yoou would never get it clean, and the bottom was loaded with a combination of marbles, marble chips, and mutiple colored aquarium gravel. BIts and pieces of air line and filters, nothing complete, so it was all trash anyhow and it had a sticker price of $20.00
There was also another tank same as above but no light or hood, or filters just tank with about 1 or 2 inches of aragonite sand in it, along with a mess of cigarette butts, and such, with a stick on thermometer, and a swing arm hydrometer missing the arm....and it had a price tag of $25.00
They had 7 tanks total, all 10 gal, but did have a 55 gal with a broken front panel (looks like a irrate individual put a bat through it as it was really shattered, and they had it wrapped up in that heat shrink wrapping material to seal it all up and keep the pieces in place, they wanted $35.00 for... I asked why so high on those tanks, especially the one marked saltwater, and they said well salt water stuff costs more.........duh! They would not come down one cent on any of the stuff, yet they sell it eventually.
Salvation army had 2 10's and 1 20 bare tanks, for $25 and $35 respectively, all very well worn and scratched.......
Kings Ranch did not have anyhting but an old HArtz mountain air pump for $5.00 without a cord.
Faith Rescue Mission had a heap of old used batting from a pond filter in a rubber maid container with a bumnch of holes in it, with snap lid they had listed as large pond filter, for an astonishing $40, and a hob type penn plax filter for $15 and a hob type heater by Penn Plax for $15.00.....
HOw do these places come up with the prices they sell the stuff for? Do the people that drop off these items tell em its worth such and such for a bigger donation write off and that is the price they sell it for or what?
Wow.....what prices n used tanks. Goodwill: They had an old 10 gal tank (typical wally world special for $29.95 every day price) but this tank had an old incandesant type light, with bulbs so corroded in place yoou would never get it clean, and the bottom was loaded with a combination of marbles, marble chips, and mutiple colored aquarium gravel. BIts and pieces of air line and filters, nothing complete, so it was all trash anyhow and it had a sticker price of $20.00
There was also another tank same as above but no light or hood, or filters just tank with about 1 or 2 inches of aragonite sand in it, along with a mess of cigarette butts, and such, with a stick on thermometer, and a swing arm hydrometer missing the arm....and it had a price tag of $25.00
They had 7 tanks total, all 10 gal, but did have a 55 gal with a broken front panel (looks like a irrate individual put a bat through it as it was really shattered, and they had it wrapped up in that heat shrink wrapping material to seal it all up and keep the pieces in place, they wanted $35.00 for... I asked why so high on those tanks, especially the one marked saltwater, and they said well salt water stuff costs more.........duh! They would not come down one cent on any of the stuff, yet they sell it eventually.
Salvation army had 2 10's and 1 20 bare tanks, for $25 and $35 respectively, all very well worn and scratched.......
Kings Ranch did not have anyhting but an old HArtz mountain air pump for $5.00 without a cord.
Faith Rescue Mission had a heap of old used batting from a pond filter in a rubber maid container with a bumnch of holes in it, with snap lid they had listed as large pond filter, for an astonishing $40, and a hob type penn plax filter for $15 and a hob type heater by Penn Plax for $15.00.....
HOw do these places come up with the prices they sell the stuff for? Do the people that drop off these items tell em its worth such and such for a bigger donation write off and that is the price they sell it for or what?
