Featured MY LATEST THRIFT STORE FIND & THE DICKERING THAT CAME AFTER!

Friday I was in the toy aisle by the back of a local thrift store; me & another reg. wait there because it's right by the doors where they roll the carts out with new merchandise going to the shelves. While waiting I peeked through the windows in the door & saw the cart full of stuff being priced - and immediately noticed a big old beautiful stereo receiver on the cart. I couldn't see the make because it was sitting backwards to the doors but just by the panel on the back I knew it was something good.
I told my friend I had dibs on the stereo coming out & as soon as the cart cracked the doors I touched it and told the lady I wanted this!
It turned out to be a Marantz 4270 Quadradial AM/FM receiver in beautiful condition - with a price tag of $29.95!
I took it home & posted it on eBay & FB market place for $750 - I had a couple of offers for $400 but decided to wait till after the week-end to see what would happen.
Sunday a guy came by my sale & when he saw my vintage road bikes he told me he collected Schwinn Stingrays - and then when he saw the Marantz he made me an offer: $500 or a 1974 Schwinn 5 Speed Stingray?
I took the Stingray!
Sunday night I listed the Stingray on eBay and within a few hours I had a offer for $600 - I countered for $675 and they accepted (during this time another eBayer offered me $500 and I said I already had a $600 offer and a little later (After I accepted the $675) they messaged me asking if I'd accept $725(!) but it was too late).
So I ended up making $675 on a stereo I paid $29.95 for - and that's what keeps me going back every day looking for the next "WOW!"
hope you like the pics!
PS - Yesterday I was at the thrift store & bought a Gretsch limited edition Americana series guitar 'The Showdown' for $19.95 - I put it on eBay last night for $350obo!
Good Hunting everyone!


BELOW WAS MY FIRST VIEW OF IT & I KNEW IT WAS SOMETHING GOOD!



BELOW WAS WHAT I TRADED IT FOR!



AND HERE IS YESTERDAY'S FIND - Gretsch Limited Edition Americana Series Guitar "The Showdown" !

 

We had a hifi set up some years back made by a British company called Quad. Time came to replace it: there were a few issues, and it didn't do digital radio.

Himself suggested the tip for the old gear.

Hah.

I listed it on Ebay. It had cost us about £900 in 1981 from memory. Sold it all for over £450, as separate units. One went to someone who literally just wanted the fascia.

 

Congrats, Journey!

 

If I'd sold the receiver on eBay the shipping would have been as much as the unit - it weighed 39 lbs + having FedEx pack it safely - it would have been expensive!

 

I actually delivered one component, the chap paid my petrol. Packaged the other two pretty successfully. They were about 10 Kg from memory.

 

Congrats on the sale.

 

Savvy buying. Congratulations!

 

I had a massive Sansui once. I could barely carry it - decided to list it on a local buy and sell site with just the model number and a few pics with the description "first $1000 takes it" for a laugh.

Much to my surprise, within an hour of listing, a guy shows up with a bundle of $50 bills saying he'd been looking for one of these all his life. So I said Bye-Bye big ol' heavy Sansui, and welcomed 20 crisp $50's instead!

 

both the bike and receiver...classics..

U R indeed...a ' Wheeler Dealer " !!!!!!

 

Something caught my eye in a trash pile a few weeks ago while driving. Turns out it was a late 1970s Kenwood KR-4600 receiver. Works perfectly! These things were built like tanks back then.

 

good eye !!
if it was an Ipod....u would never have noticed it !!

 

Congrats! I will admit I went and checked my old system that's in the basement but I'm safe letting it sit, it's not worth much

 

my Marantz is in the basement.......less buttons though !!

 

My oldest son's godfather gave him a set of Klipsh speakers that he had bought while stationed in Germany in the early 1980s. They were the large floor type models. If he turned them up over about 3 it rattled the windows.

When he & his now ex moved in together he brought them with him of course. She said they did not go with "the decor". He ended up selling them.

In hindsight, he should have kept the speakers.

 

I just sold my Magnepan MG1's last week. About 5' tall, I used them for room dividers for the last 20 years

 

That Schwinn Stingray is in great condition! I might have wanted to keep that one.... Well done overall!

 

LOL

 

Someone on bikeforums said the suspension on the bottom of the back sissy bar AND the seat (Stingrays supposedly had stripes) were from a same period Schwinn Stingray krate (like the Pea Picker or Grey Ghost) + the paint (opaque red) was only used for 1 year by Schwinn - along with the condition like you said; I probably could have gotten more?

 

Not sure... I had a vintage 1970s Chicago-made Schwinn (also bright red) and despite what I read online, had a hard time selling it around here-- and this is a pretty bike-happy place. Local market conditions for sure.

Sounds like you did pretty well anyway!