Best items you found at thrift stores (Goodwill)?

[chrisberchris]

Originally Posted by retrowagen

Maybe the poster has a time machine and was visiting a Goodwill in the year 2027. In the big cardboard barrel, jammed in among miscellaneous massive-headed golf clubs, are a bunch of ground down Babolats. The donators of said racquets are in the market for the new nanobionic elbow implants. Plus, it more fun to play "virtual tennis" on any holographic video game station with virtual friends off the ultrainternet.

Hahaha! Yes, busted! That's exactly what happened! Needless to say I was pretty surprised to find them.

[TCTEN]

Originally Posted by michael_1265

I found a minty Head 660 Calibre today. It seems like a plain-jane widebody from the early 1990s, but for $2........

Anybody ever use this racquet?

Michael, speaking of minty Austrian made Head widebody frames from the early 90's I found this baby at the GW for a few bucks and it looks like its never hit a ball. It also has a bit of sentimental value because I played with the Ventoris back in the day. I've never owned a frame that went through strings as fast as this beast and which prompted me to buy my first stringing machine.
I did have a buddy at the club who used the Calibre and he liked it as I recall but I never hit with one myself.

[Gonzalito17]

An old Agassi purple and orange and white Nike shirt, wow what a crazy shirt. From early 90s I think or late 80s.

Prince Graphite.

Donnay Borg Pro racquet bag, holds for or five. really cool logo Donnay had back then the black and orange nice lettering.

[Gonzalito17]

Also a copy of the Marcelo Rios book The Man We Barely Knew, two Donnay Borg Pros, and a pair of K Swiss grass court shoes in Bradenton they must've been donated by a pro or a national tournament player. All this at the Bradenton Goodwill on Manatee Ave, next to Wendys.

[HBK4life]

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Found this baby. Looks hardly used!

[TheLambsheadrep]

Originally Posted by HBK4life

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Found this baby. Looks hardly used!

and now youre trying to sell it on the bay? for a minimum of 70 plus shipping?

2 things - c'mon man, that's kinda not cool. and also, why aren't you using it?! It's such a great racquet, I have 3 OS and would never part with them

[Hannah19]

Originally Posted by TheLambsheadrep

and now youre trying to sell it on the bay? for a minimum of 70 plus shipping?

2 things - c'mon man, that's kinda not cool. and also, why aren't you using it?! It's such a great racquet, I have 3 OS and would never part with them

Hmmmmmm.......Why not?
I once paid 1.00 euro for a PS 95 and sold it for 110.00 euro.
We are in a crisis here......give the guy a break!!
If someone wants to pay his asking price, why not?
It's not like he's holding a gun to his head and forces him to buy it...!!

[khw72004]

Originally Posted by Hannah19

Hmmmmmm.......Why not?
I once paid 1.00 euro for a PS 95 and sold it for 110.00 euro.
We are in a crisis here......give the guy a break!!
If someone wants to pay his asking price, why not?
It's not like he's holding a gun to his head and forces him to buy it...!!

I agree with Hannah. There is nothing wrong with reselling a racket at their current value. You would be a sucker if you got a 200 dollar racket and sold it for the 3 or 4 dollars you got it for. That would just not make sense.

[HBK4life]

Originally Posted by TheLambsheadrep

and now youre trying to sell it on the bay? for a minimum of 70 plus shipping?

2 things - c'mon man, that's kinda not cool. and also, why aren't you using it?! It's such a great racquet, I have 3 OS and would never part with them

Maybe I don't use this kind of racket? What am I supposed to do build a shrine to it and worship it? If someone wants it I'm happy to sell it to them. So maybe mind your own business thanks. Not cool. Christ almighty

[Andyroo10567]

Found a Head Graphite Pro Turquoise US version 4 3/8's for 5.99 later to find out that the entire GoodWill was 50% off! So i picked it up just about $3. Condition was outstanding. Just a couple scrapes here and there. Grommets are in good standing condition. Very usable. Good or bad buy^^ ?

[pshulam]

Good or bad buy^^ ?

Needless to say, it's not a good buy but a great buy!

[JZImmer123]

Got a Prince Mono (like what Connors used) for $3.99. The frame was in 8.5/10 condition! Just had to change out the worn grip, re-string it, and she was good to go!

Also found a Donnay Borg Allwood in pristine condition for $2.99.

Gotta love Goodwill sometimes!

[michael_1265]

Originally Posted by JZImmer123

Got a Prince Mono (like what Connors used) for $3.99. The frame was in 8.5/10 condition! Just had to change out the worn grip, re-string it, and she was good to go!

Also found a Donnay Borg Allwood in pristine condition for $2.99.

Gotta love Goodwill sometimes!

Nice deals. I would love to find a Mono.

[retrowagen]

Originally Posted by michael_1265

Nice deals. I would love to find a Mono.

usually, people don't want to get mono.

The Prince models, and the Fischers made just a few years before, are pretty cool frames (I especially would like to have one of the torsion-box throated Fischer midplusses).

[Hannah19]

^^^ There is a Prince Experimental on the german Bay for U$50.00......Buy Now!!
If you are not to late, that is..

[Sanglier]

This is only tangentially relevant to this thread, but have any of you who have teenagers at home noticed that thrifting has become a cool social thing to do for these kids? Apparently this is triggered by the surprise hit "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore, an Eminem kind of rapper from Seattle. The song only talked about old clothes, but the 'this is f- awesome" sentiment expressed in the refrain is certainly one that many of us have personally experienced, some more often than others.

At least my kid is no longer embarrassed to be seen with me at these venues, for the time being.

[retrowagen]

Originally Posted by Sanglier

This is only tangentially relevant to this thread, but have any of you who have teenagers at home noticed that thrifting has become a cool social thing to do for these kids? Apparently this is triggered by the surprise hit "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore, an Eminem kind of rapper from Seattle. The song only talked about old clothes, but the 'this is f- awesome" sentiment expressed in the refrain is certainly one that many of us have personally experienced, some more often than others.

At least my kid is no longer embarrassed to be seen with me at these venues, for the time being.

The somewhat recent cool nerd cult classic movie, Napoleon Dynamite, too, had a scene where Napoleon and Pedro shopped for an awesome outfit for the school formal. I would have laughed out loud, had the scene continued past the sporting goods section, and Napoleon pulls out a 9.5/10 St. Vincent PS85, and declares, "[long sigh] What a decroded piece of crap!" and chucks it back in the cardboard barrel.

[mpournaras]

Got a brand new Wison Sting 85 (blue and black) for 7, and a sweet old fischer 98 n.one for 20 (almost new, I know it is not "old" but it is pre-stiff racket nonsense time)

[mctennis]

Originally Posted by Sanglier

This is only tangentially relevant to this thread, but have any of you who have teenagers at home noticed that thrifting has become a cool social thing to do for these kids? Apparently this is triggered by the surprise hit "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore, an Eminem kind of rapper from Seattle. The song only talked about old clothes, but the 'this is f- awesome" sentiment expressed in the refrain is certainly one that many of us have personally experienced, some more often than others.

At least my kid is no longer embarrassed to be seen with me at these venues, for the time being.

I noticed that myself. My daughters friends all went to different thrift stores for a couple of days about three weeks ago. I thought it was odd until I read this post from you. I guess it isn't so odd now.

[michael_1265]

Originally Posted by Sanglier

This is only tangentially relevant to this thread, but have any of you who have teenagers at home noticed that thrifting has become a cool social thing to do for these kids? Apparently this is triggered by the surprise hit "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore, an Eminem kind of rapper from Seattle. The song only talked about old clothes, but the 'this is f- awesome" sentiment expressed in the refrain is certainly one that many of us have personally experienced, some more often than others.

At least my kid is no longer embarrassed to be seen with me at these venues, for the time being.

I heard about the video on The Nerdist Podcast, so I checked it out on YouTube (I am a serious thrift shop addict). When my 15 year old son saw me watching it, he told me how uncool I was. Then, two weeks later, his friends start tweeting about the song. Suddenly, he is in the position of admitting that his extremely uncool Dad knew about a song before he did.