boardjunkie wrote:
Ok.....found a flat panel monitor at a Salvation Army thrift store
today. At 35$ it seemed it would make a nice little display for a
second machine. Now I know the policy of "as is" from this place and
you should power up and test before hauling anything of this nature out
of the place. Trouble is, this monitor needed an external 12vdc pwr
supply that was not included. So there was no way to test on site. So I
bring it back and hook it up to a bench supply and pwr up only to find
it had been broken due to pressure to the face of the unit. So I take
it back and tell them the story and go so far as to power it up in
front of them tp prove that it was obviously damaged and shouldn't have
been sold to begin with. I get the runaround about store policy
regarding returns on "as is" electronic items. No refund. They issued
me "store credit"......which is more or less useless to me since I
rarely buy anything from them as of late due to increased prices on
what I would call junk. Add to that the rarely have anything close to
good anymore. So in a nutshell I gave them 35$ and have nothing to show
for it. Oh, I even called the head office and got the same bull****
from clueless drones.

I regularly get older audio gear from the local Goodwill shop and have
never had a problem returning anything, although I have never had to
return anything electronic. I just assume I may have to do some work on
it. There's no repairing flat panels.

Needless to say I will no longer frequent the Scamnation Army. The
Goodwills have way better junk at a fraction of the price.

Anyone had a similar experience? Just curious....I'm a little
steamed.....

I lived a quarter mile from a second hand store for ten years, what
makes the difference is the manager at the time. I have had your
experience and another experience where I got to help myself to
everything every night for free at the same store with a different
manager. I have been welcomed and banded from the same store, manager
again. But all of them over price some truly worthless junk. A
toaster for ten bucks? I think I will get a new one. I do make a token
purchase at times. The item is to good and it will disappear.
Something like a state of the art bare bones hard drive that no has
realized it yet, I take it up to counter with a bunch of old ones and
ask how much are these things, and they say 2 bucks a piece, so I buy
2 or 3 so the 500gig does not get focused on. A thief? you tell me.