Outrageous Yard Sale Stories


Altec-Lansing Speaker

After browsing Yard Sale Database, I found several yard sales near my zipcode. I head over to the ones that seem promising from the pics and description, and went at it
Around the driveway were typical useless junk and I scoffed at kids trying to compete in this yard-sale-flip-on-ebay for profit market. This is a do-or-die market man, what are you thinking? you have to get up at 5:10am in the monring just to hustle man. But the rewards are amazing. After passing by the usual dirty boxers and clothing, I found these set of speakers. They are in fair condition and seem to be good to sell. I immediately grab it and ask the 40 yr old milf whats going on
'my ex husband used to be a speaker freak, i think those ran about 500 retail'
'i'll give u 3 for it'
'deal'
So I go home, log on net and check it out, whats this I just bought. Did I just buy junk? Altec Lansing SLS5220. Behold, 2.0 Powered Audio Full Range Speaker System. An internal LF enhancement circuit adds an additional octave of LF performance below 100 Hz. Package includes ball-joint wall mounts, plasma screen mounts, inter-connect cables and worldwide switching power supply. And I paid 3 USD for this.
Sunday comes, I list on ebay, immediately 17 questions and 5 bids, within 10 minutes of my listing!!! Neverless, I tell each prospective buyers to bid and let the chips fall where they may
After 6 days, oh wow, 120 bids and the price stands at 434.25 with 10 minutes to go. This is just amazing. For 3 dollars and getting up early in the morning, this is what makes it worth it. I don't remember how the listing ended, but I celebrated with a Montecristo at the end cuz I just hustled.

Posted at 7:42pm 22 July 2001