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To add to that, another group of people who always get dinged on their feedback are the people who sell the "penny-annie" stuff for less than $1 but they have $7 to $10 in shipping and handling fees....

One reason is that if you are a high volume seller.. e.g. 3000 to 4000 transactions a month, you are also going to get a certain percentage of negative feedback. Maybe 1%-3% which isn't much on the...

The next best thing to the auction is finding organizations that are simply throwing them away. A few years back I discovered that governments and corporations donate their computers to the schools,...

I've burned a few mattresses that were either mine or they were from a family member but as others on here, I am very cautious about the bio-hazards. Now that I am thinking about it, I wonder if...

That is indeed a very good find. They have quite a few shooting ranges around here along with many of the local police departments that have their own private ranges.

I get $1.20/lb. at my yard also.. and when I bring it, they don't event spend a lot of time inspecting it. They just look through it or dump it on the scale to make sure that I am not hiding a brick...

A police officer once said, that people always rhetorically ask him, "Don't the cops have anything better to do?" and responds by saying, "Yes, and we would be out doing it if everyone else would...

X2. I go crying to the bank wondering what I am going to do with all of that extra cash. It's such a burden to count that money when keeping up with a minimum wage paycheck is hard enough.

They say that 40 is the new "30" and as I get older, I start to see how people are much younger physically and have been getting that way over the last 20+ years. I am in my 40's but all of the...

My legos were gone the day that my mom stepped on the tiny single-block lego barefooted.

I must have been punished severely because I can't even remember what happened between the time that my...

There has been a gradual shift in the paradigm where people just don't care about the fine details anymore. I started my online life back in the 80's on the Commodore 64 using BBS systems and AOL.....

I guess the anti-scavenging laws partially protect people from egregious acts and simple misunderstandings.

Here is a somewhat rare but not too far fetched scenario-

A man who parks his car on...

I have a pair of work pants that has the front permanently sewed shut because the zipper broke and I lost the button. So I have to find a enclosed stall because I have to pull my pants completely...

Those are the kinds of friends that are important to have and it is very important to take care of those people. I've had a few situations like that myself where I had a breakdown or some other...

Lancing a painful boil after ignoring it all day.

There is a secondary market for those thin clients that is steadily growing as the concept of "cloud computing" continues to expand. You could probably sell them for $20-$25 a piece.. maybe a little...

Yeah.. anything that remotely resembled an Xray machine would have been something different. But this was primarily lab equipment. It consisted of scales, some kind of heater/crock pot looking...

When someone deliberately makes a mess of the public restroom... and I really have to go...REALLY BAD.. but I can't use it because the last person's business got everywhere other than inside of the...

Stumbling on a demolition job and finding 100 lbs. of #1 bus bar copper.

Don't sweat it. From the perspective of the cops, they want to catch the crooks but they don't want the bad press from harassing law-abiding citizens in the process. Also, you have to do more than...

Well what I meant is that it was a car auction that also had "lot" auctions..aka miscellaneous items.

That's good info to know given the number of cordless drill batteries that I've discarded. I'd be willing to try this on a bad car battery being that principle is probably the same.

Yesterday I made a quick $20 at a car/lot auction buying a pallet of medical equipment. The auctions in my area sell discarded equipment from hospitals, schools, local government, etc.

So I...

Playing solitaire and getting "stuck" knowing that the few remaining cards that I need to win are in a stack that's covered by the 3 of spades. That really grinds my gears.

Conversely, I would have to say it would be people who come to me with some sort of financial crisis every time they think/know that I have a considerable amount of money. I knew a guy who inherited...