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The 10 cent boxes and the 20 cent box

Started by dimwittedmoose51, July 29, 2012, 04:18:54 AM

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Just for clarification, the guy had 3 Pepsi boxes; two of them had tools for a dime each and one for 20 cents each.  There was a sticker on each box that said you could buy the whole box for $10 each.  I did the math and looked at what was in there, and figured the "a la carte" price was a much better deal.  Both dime boxes had great deals in them and I bought 5 items from the 20 center and like 30 items from the two dime boxes.  He threw in one of the Pepsi crates to carry it off with, so effectively I pretty much got a $10 box of stuff for $4.  Granted what was left in the remaining boxes would have still been worth $10 maybe, but then I woulda been buying thirds and fourths on a lot of stuff and I have way too many generic hammers right now as it is.  The Greenlee draw knife was in the 10 cent box and I didn't even see it initially until I dug dow neep to find those wonderful blonde handles.



I'll try to get photos of a few of the ratchets that turned up in one of the auction tool boxes from last Monday night....just so many hours in the day.

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