Best Find Ever???


I am curious to hear what the best find you ever had was. It doesn't have to be limited to audio equipment, though best audio find around here gets the 'bull-of-the-woods' I suppose. I read somewhere of a guy who got a Lexicon MC1 from his local pawn shop for $150 because the doofus behind the counter thought it was an equalizer or something. What's the retail on one of those, around $6K? I am either too new at this, too slow, or too much like Charlie Brown to score something like that.

I did have one, not audio. Back when I was young and dangerous and into motorcycles, I had a friend back his truck up to the house with about $10k worth of somebody's entire flattrack program in it. In addition to the bike, there were spare everythings (extra engines, extra wheels, parts, gears etc.--most of it new!) He swore it was legit; I paid him $750, but made him promise if the real owner ever came for it he was giving me back my money and told him I was turnin' him in. I nervously sat on it for about 6mos., (rode a bunch of wheelies) and then sold it for about $5.5k.

One caveat though, if you are going to lie, try and at least make it believable. Thanks. Chris.
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Massvm...I know from experience that Albert has already gotten way more out of his "investment" than he put in to it. Mostly, being a winner is in the mind.
21 years ago I was a rookie ski-patroller at large ski area. I met a girl in bar, got very drunk and within a week I took her advice and bought the absolute worst
house on the access road. She, being the realtor, had to pick me up and take me to the closing...feeding me a
few tokes on the way to help my hangover. Sounds like a recipe for disaster! But she was not clueless like me.

When she took my $10,000 total savings, got a 30 yr.
$30,000 mortgage and closed on the house, I ended up with a mortgage of a little over $200/mo; less than any of my friends were paying in rent, and closer to work than anyone else could afford to live. The clincher was 2 years later when the town put in a sewer-plant and all the property on the access road became super valuable at a commercial level. Sold the place for a HUGE profit and bought a new home in a better town at
four times the value. The only thing I took of value from that first home was the stereo. I even left the water bed.
Come to think of it....I should look the lady up and thank her shouldn't I? What a deal.