One thing that drives me batty is scrapping antiques, beautiful items or anything that's just cool. These are parts from a 1957 Cadillac De Soto. This was a gorgeous era for cars! Built like tanks, chrome in all the right places, just amazing stuff. Frank Miller is obviously a fan, if you read Sin City. But into the steel bin they went. One door got recused by a passing "customer."
"Customer"...come on. They're "vendors" if anything. People that drop off stuff that you profit from can't be customers!
Anyway. He dumped a bunch of chain, and asked to buy a door for the owner of a '58. Normally I need to sell by the pound, but after 100 pounds of chain I figured $5 still made business sense. I was glad to see at least one part go.SoloFlex....who the hell still pays retail for these things? A guy with a moving truck dumped one, the whole shebang, plus parts I found out later were add-ons. $1,800 cost. Being a thrift-shopper and swap-meetie, I've never seen equipment of the like sell for more than $100. I myself bought an AbLounge for $20 off of craigslist, and I still don't use it; yet didn't pay $200 for it, either. It makes a decent chair.
