Laptop accidentally sold for $5 at thrift store

Laptop accidentally sold for $5 at thrift store

Tuesday, July 20, 2010
(07-20) 11:12 PDT COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho (AP) --

The manager of an Idaho thrift store is seeking the return of her laptop computer, which was accidentally sold for $5.

Sandra Bechthold says she was shocked when she learned her 2-year-old Dell Inspiron and case were sold on July 12.

Bechthold had to do some work offsite that day, leaving the Women's Center Thrift Store in the hands of one staffer and a group of volunteers. The Coeur d'Alene Press reports Bechthold doesn't know how her laptop ended up in the donation receiving room.

A volunteer said she decided on a $5 sale price because she once saw a laptop with no software sold for that amount.

Bechthold has placed a classified ad offering to buy the computer back.


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Sounds like somebody paid too much :evilgrin:

Dell is the antichrist of computers

Its about 5" diameter. Apparently back in 1929 my grannmother was in Woolsworths looking at a counter marked "everything six pence" She said she wanted the glass ball only to told "Madam : that's a shop fitting". My gradnmother replied "I don't care what you call it - get the manager". The manager let her have it to avoid an otherwise imminent disturbance. I've figured that 6d in our old money must be about 4 cents in your currency these days.

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