Bargains on ebay? (Part 2)

[Pigmy Pony]

He must be made of money if he can just skip a working telly.

I was imagining it was one of those old wooden cased things from the 1970s not a modern smart TV.

It was only about 23" screen, about the size of a tray you might eat your dinner off. Secondhand tellies are worth jack shit these days, at Christmastime the council tips will be inundated with perfectly good TVs whose only fault is being not quite big enough to screen The Great Escape convincingly.

I thought all the old 60s and 70s tellies had been snapped up and made into fish tanks then sold to hipsters for silly money.

[Barry]

My mate in London finds valuable antiques just lying by the kerb, on a regular basis this is. He found a fire surround once, got three hundred for it.

I can concur - my partner still has her flat in London, and the amount of decent and working gear that is turfed out is amazing: flat screen TVs; electric kettles; fridges, and freezers. All because it is too much trouble for them to offer the items to charity shops.

[Macca]

sounds like it might be worth getting a van and going tatting in London.

[Macca]

It was only about 23" screen, about the size of a tray you might eat your dinner off. Secondhand tellies are worth jack shit these days, at Christmastime the council tips will be inundated with perfectly good TVs whose only fault is being not quite big enough to screen The Great Escape convincingly.

I thought all the old 60s and 70s tellies had been snapped up and made into fish tanks then sold to hipsters for silly money.

You might only get a tenner for it but even so. To me that's just like chucking money out. I can't do it.

[Pigmy Pony]

You might only get a tenner for it but even so. To me that's just like chucking money out. I can't do it.

I feel the same, and I do keep a lot of stuff which looks like "it might come in for something", but we have such limited space here we have to be a bit ruthless. My last telly (42" Panasonic plasma) didn't go to landfill, Anita sold it to her best friend for £100 (honestly, with friends like Mrs. P...)

[Macca]

I feel the same, and I do keep a lot of stuff which looks like "it might come in for something", but we have such limited space here we have to be a bit ruthless. My last telly (42" Panasonic plasma) didn't go to landfill, Anita sold it to her best friend for £100 (honestly, with friends like Mrs. P...)

you can always find someone who wants something. My old telly went to a mate's son who wanted a big monitor in his bedroom for his video games. They couldn't afford to buy him one even for a couple of hundred quid.

Didn't ask for any money as being a rear projection unit resale value was nil but there's no way I was going to skip a perfectly working unit with not a mark on it even though I don't really have the room to store it. Psychologically I just can't do it.

[struth]

i usually just give stuff like that away as its less hassle to selling it for little money and often lots of trouble from the buyer

[Pigmy Pony]

i usually just give stuff like that away as its less hassle to selling it for little money and often lots of trouble from the buyer

When something has to go, giving it away is my preferred option. But often I find myself giving stuff I hadn't planned on getting rid of. Which is probably a bit silly, and Anita would probably string me up if she knew how often I do that.

At the same time, I can never say no to free stuff. If someone offers me something (could be anything) I always gratefully accept it , then wonder afterwards what the hell I'm going to do with it. Usually I just end up giving it someone else.

[Barry]

The only thing I found in a skip, that was of interest to me, was a Monster MP HTS 1600 Home Theatre Reference Powercenter:



Totally unblemished and works perfectly.

[donmarrese]

If someone could clone me I'd certainly have a copy - I could send it out to work while I get to stay home and play me records.

You need to watch a film called Multiplicity.....

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