08-21-14 10:18 Daryl Stout wrote to ED VANCE about Re: MS un-kills MSSE for   
      
    DS> @MSGID: <53F71E03.1037.windowsb@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    DS> Ed,   
      
    EV>Ask around to see if there is anyone who can open the Notebook Battery   
    EV>and replace the bad cells in it.   
      
    DS>   Too bad we don't have more hamfests in Arkansas, or I'd look   
    DS> for another computer battery. We're lucky to have 6 a year in   
    DS> the state. However, the phrase "caveat emptor" applies...some   
    DS> folks there are trying to get rid of a "worthless boat anchor   
    DS> doorstop".   
      
   Howdy! Daryl,   
      
   I have only sold things at a Hamfest fleamarket once.   
      
   I put lots of small parts from my Junk Box into 3 paper bags.   
   I put masking tape all over each of the bags and wrote on them,   
   Junk Box For Beginners 50 Cents.   
      
   People would pick a bag up and squeeze it trying to figure out what was   
   in the bag and ask me what it had in it and I would tell them it had   
   parts to begin a junk box in them.   
      
   I sold one sack about a hour after I set my table up.   
      
   A daughter of a Ham I know bought one and took it to Dad.   
   She came back and bought the other bag a few minutes later.   
      
   IIRC, I had put Resistors, Knobs, Gears, Terminal Strips and all kinds   
   of hardware I had, most of it was unused parts.   
      
   JUNK! but useable JUNK! , No Rocks or Bricks just JUNK!   
      
   I did it mostly to have fun watching folks guess if it was worth paying   
   me 50 cents for one of the bags.   
   The SECOND reason was that my wife asked me to get rid of some of the   
   stuff that I had hoarded.   
      
   I had fun being on the other side of the table once.   
      
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