Quite a while ago I had a look at the mowers in our local tip shop, couldn't believe the price tags they had on the greatest piles of rubbish you could ever imagine.
Norm, that is what I have noticed too. There is a Lifeline shop near our tip and the prices are beyond belief at times. I once picked up a pair of old boots that fit me and had a little bit of wear left in them. I needed a pair of "knock-abouts" for working in the yard, Took them to the counter and the bloke wanted $50 for them. I said to him he had to be kidding as I could buy a new pair for that price at Kmart. He wouldn't budge on the price.
As for mowers, they frequently ask for $100 for a mower with two wheels, a broken chassis, no compression, and a cowl with more rust than metal. When you complain you get the usual line "We're a charity" or "The spare parts alone would be worth that!" Well I suppose they might, if somebody went to the trouble to remove them all, clean them up and paint them. The thing is I leave them there if they are too dear, and so does everybody else. Next time you go in there they have dumped the lot and put some more in their place, which are also piles of broken and rusting junk and as dear as poison. It doesn't make much sense for any charity to operate this way, especially when they are getting the goods for nothing.
