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This is so annoying. I was luckier one time: I remember buying an oscilloscope for around 400NOK (about $40) back somewhere in 2002-2003. Other times I was mo
by eitland 6y ago
This is so annoying.
I was luckier one time: I remember buying an oscilloscope for around 400NOK (about $40) back somewhere in 2002-2003.
Other times I was more persistent. Once I tried to get some PC parts so I said I could disassemble it and only take the exact parts at which point the bloke told me he'd rather want me to take the whole thing as lo g as I was quick so nobody saw it :-)
- WalterBright 6y agoI bought a nice oscilloscope last year from the pawn shop for $40. I don't think most of their clientele (or the staff) even knew what it was.
- serf 6y ago>I don't think most of their clientele (or the staff) even knew what it was. I bought a pair of nice Roland studio-level reference monitor speakers from a pawn shop like that once. They cost me 90 dollars, they retailed for something like 1750. When I paid the person behind the counter told me that many people had tried to get these to work and brought them back because they couldn't figure out the cable to use -- and due to that difficulty they had marked them down from 200 to 90. It was an XLR plug. They worked beautifully.
- yardie 6y agoPawn shops are filled with audio gear from desperate, broke artists. XLR is a pretty standard in the audio community. I even have a 2.5mm-to-XLR adapter on my desk. This pawn shop must be really far from any place with performance venues. Now on the other hand I had some old Bang and Olufsen speakers that used proprietary everything. Even the audio input was some kind of balanced 24V signaling 5-pin DIN connectors. Basically you could not plug into anything except another B&O.
- WalterBright 6y agoP.S.: I did tell the staff what it was, but they just shrugged their shoulders. So I paid $40.