2 cool finds at Goodwill today
1 boombox,a sanyo M7700K boombox for 3.99!
Super nice,tape works,tuner a little staticy but some deoxit gold should cure that. Other find was simply super TWO huge Kenwood floor speakers Price $3 Ea,=$6!! Very cool! Goodwill is gettin better,today they were golden a boombox and a pr of floor speakers for a Hamilton!

WOW!!!! Great finds Jared. Thataboy!!!!!

thanks skip,the boombox is nice but these speakers,DAMN! That was a STEAL! I think one of the workers wanted them because they were tucked behind a big pillar hidden away from everything,i scope them out no price,i thought oh crap,they aren't gonna wanna sell them,i brought them up to the girl in the front she had no idea what to chg me,she called the mgr from the back,he said oh those old speakers,they just came in like 2 hrs ago,give them to him for $3 ea! SWEET!! Gotta love em"!

Picture would be nice

I just bought a boxed m90 for 99p from oxfam jk seems you had the deal of your life there jared congrats man.

nice , jared --
that 7700 looks like a high quality mini --

was that the big goodwill in pompano that we both go to ? --the same place that had the c100f last year ?


(or, you dont have to tell me)

OK! Way to go! I think I'll give our Goodwill another shot.

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Originally posted by walkgirl:


Picture would be nice

sanyo M7700K
sanyo m7700k 11071202431115_56 back plate

sanyo m7700k 1107120243111_28 anttenna's

sanyo m7700k 11071202431115_32 front full size

Thanks for pic post Dm4u

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Originally posted by redbenjoe:
nice , jared --
that 7700 looks like a high quality mini --

was that the big goodwill in pompano that we both go to ? --the same place that had the c100f last year ?
(or, you dont have to tell me)

Hey Ira,
Nope,i haven't been back to the pompano thrifts in months
this was at The Goodwill superstore,Skylake Mall-North Miami Beach

ok - thanks jared --
feel safe from me --thats too far , these days

but we ought to meet up sometime at that pompano place --its the 1/2 way point between you and i.

Great finds and even better prices.

Judging by the recent hikes in similar items at my local Goodwill stores that sanyo would have been about $15 and the speakers would have been about $40. Prices have doubled or tripled in the last year at my local GW's.

Goodwill around here usually is weak for bbx's Mb but lately several have been solid,another one i went to yesterday 10 vhs movies for a dollar,everyone wants dvd's but hey vhs is fine for 10 cents.

That is a very nice sanyo!

thanks nicolle

Jipee

I've found a few minis at Goodwill.That Sanyo is particularly nice!That's always the vintage of boxes I'm most excited to find!Judging from the two Goodwills I frequent,pricing is very irregular.I've found the same type items priced very differently even at the same store location.Pricing seems to be really discretionary for the worker who happens to mark the item.Due to the large volume they deal with and the number of employees,stuff will slip by at unusual prices in both directions (high and low,mostly low ).

totally. It's that way at just about all the thrift stores around these parts if an item is not priced.
I know most of the staff at the places i frequent and they know me,believe me that helps a alot! The sanyo is a cool box. I like it ! Certainly a bargain for 3.99! I like the 7850K i found at another store better though!
The speakers really were the steal,Kenwood speakers? Had to be in the Hundreds for the pr when new and these are absolutly perfect,$6 totally unheard of. One funny thing when i bought these i was driving my ol 74 mustang the pr would NOT fit in the trunk or the back seat! I had to lay one across the entire back seat,and put the other in the passenger seat,i was def getting some weird looks from other drivers on the way home!

I really deal with Goodwill pretty exclusively as its so close to my house.At this point they know me almost like family I guess.The other thrifties around town are smaller and do far less volume of goods.Due to gas prices,I'm not confident I want to check them all really frequently (not that I would have that kind of time )

As for speakers,I can't count the number I have let slip by for lack of space.I had to get the B&Ws and the JBL Arc50s.Also the old mid '80s Polk monitors are ones I couldn't let "slip slide away" (as Skillphil would say).There have been some huge Kenwoods,Pioneer,etc. with the oversized woofers from around 1980 I have passed on.Though lovely even just to look at,I didn't get these because I simply don't have the room at home.However I did get a pair of really beautiful Sansuis from that era with enormous white woofers capped in chrome.What a work of art that pair!

Oh Jovie,My Brother! That's Hilarious,I think We Have The Same sansui's. I Have Them In My Den,Where Else,Thrift Store... They Jam and are Just Simply Phenominal sound wise. I did pay like 40.00 for those still a Bargain and The store "allowed me" to buy the small Sharp Rack System That's Hooked Up To Those! The whole system was like 70.00 But It jams,The sharp Tuner,The sharp Dual cass Deck,The sharp Turntable,The Sharp Equalizer,and Finally an rca multi disc cd player. New All That Stuff would Have been a Small Fortune.

Given the sheer amount of different audio components produced in the past,that's quite a coincidence .That's about what I paid for mine also.Goodwill's price ceiling for electronics is $30.00.Speakers seem to be an exception (I'm guessing).This may be because you could also consider them furniture,especially the nice ones from that era.

As for the Kenwoods you bought,it seems to me that there might have been a misunderstanding between the cashier and manager about which items were being bought.Another possibility is that many that shop at Goodwill are less affluent and have small living spaces.Perhaps they just have a problem moving large "furniture" that serve no other purpose than to produce sound.Even those wanting to sell such things on Ebay have to figure in the high cost of shipping these days that their buyer will have to pay.

Many people actually do prefer the shelf systems of recent times to the bigger components of yesteryear.If they are not component fans and just want sound,smaller with a big sound will be more appealing.Interestingly we've seen this trend even in high end stereo in recent years.Everything has been engineered to have a smaller footprint (even tower speakers) or to be as invisible as possible.

Not withstanding any of this $3.00 is just absurdly low.Way to get a nice pair of speakers for the price of a couple of energy drinks .

my first reasoning that some worker wanted the kenwood speakers prob was wrong,cosidering i got the pr for 6 bucks! Maybe that was the only avail space for them at the time. The mgr def knew which ones i wanted as he told the girl on speakerphone sell it to him for 3 bucks ea!
Maybe they just wanted them gone... Whatever the reason that was the deal of the yr so far for me!