The Official Thrift / Discount Store Bragging Thread Part III (Sept 2018-)

[Fueco]

Anyone familiar with Sport Of Kings swim shorts? Retail is north of $100, and seems reasonably well made.

 

[impuntura]

Speaking of cooking where the heck is @kbadgley84

 

[impuntura]

That's the one

 

[kbadgley84]

Speaking of cooking where the heck i @kbadgley84

Looooooong story, no more reselling/thrifting, in the middle of a divorce, moved back to palm beach after i got A job offer at a Platinum Rated club, recent member of the ACF (American Culinary Federation) started my Certified Executive Chef credentials, will be competing in competitions after season ends. That’s about it nothing groundbreaking lol

 

[Purplelabel]

Looooooong story, no more reselling/thrifting, in the middle of a divorce, moved back to palm beach after i got A job offer at a Platinum Rated club, recent member of the ACF (American Culinary Federation) started my Certified Executive Chef credentials, will be competing in competitions after season ends. That’s about it nothing groundbreaking lol

there he is.

Sorry you’re going through that, broham! I’ll be in Palm Beach within the year so will have to say hello.

 

[kbadgley84]

there he is.

Sorry you’re going through that, broham! I’ll be in Palm Beach within the year so will have to say hello.

Actually it’s been the best thing to happen in a long time lol Yea man hit me up. Where you going to be staying down here?

 

[Purplelabel]

Actually it’s been the best thing to happen in a long time lol Yea man hit me up. Where you going to be staying down here?

No idea yet, but its on the cards! Will let you know when.

 

[LiamD]

oops, messed up. Was going to show my finds from this morning but I dropped my phone and now it won't power up. I'll add pics later.

 

[330CK]

Looooooong story, no more reselling/thrifting, in the middle of a divorce, moved back to palm beach after i got A job offer at a Platinum Rated club, recent member of the ACF (American Culinary Federation) started my Certified Executive Chef credentials, will be competing in competitions after season ends. That’s about it nothing groundbreaking lol

was wondering why I hadn’t run into you in awhile. congrats on the certs.

 

[txwoodworker]

Why are these $355??

Anyhoo, glad I finally found a current one by them. I've found the made in Taiwan, the Van Heusen, but never made in UK or current.

 

[florent]

Rarely find oversize books like this. This one is a beautiful cookbook as well. Unfortunately it is, I believe in French but still a worthy coffeetable book at 17 by 12 and great pictures. I assume I can look up the recipes online somewhere. I know we have some chefs on here. Anything you can tell me. Google is also turning up French responses.
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After a quick google search, it's indeed a french cookbook with pork-based recipes. The author doesn't seem to be particularly famous and the book is still available for ~€30. The drawings are pretty cool!

 

[Sartoriamo]

Furniture guys, @330CK @impuntura , 1960s lane furniture surfboard coffee table. Should i refinish it, or sell as is View attachment 2005605 View attachment 2005607 View attachment 2005609 View attachment 2005611 View attachment 2005613

Agreed with @impuntura on this one in general: I have a 30' storage unit that is almost entirely filled with items "awaiting a bit of work", but I just took a load down to a live auction and blew them out as-is, for exactly the reasons Frenchy noted.

There's only so much time, and one of my kopping parameters now is what I call the DWF: the Deal-With Factor. So that's really a pure cost-benefit analysis. How much time and effort is it going to take in relation to the profit delta? In this case, it's tricky, as the resale prices for these Lane tables are all over the shop. If you're going for top dollar, you are more or less obliged to render that item pristine, but unless you're going to do it yourself, you've got a couple hundred bucks or more going into refinishing.

I see people asking a couple grand for these, but that's on Chairish or 1stDibs where the asking prices are usually bonkers and actual sold prices are much less. I think that for this one, @Letric's suggestion is spot on: a quick wipe down and clean-up with some tinted oil will get you halfway towards maxing out your resale price on a local sale with relatively little effort.

 

[Juntao90]

OG minute in powder blue ,minty.
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Oakleys are literally plastic gold.

 

[impuntura]

Agreed with @impuntura on this one in general: I have a 30' storage unit that is almost entirely filled with items "awaiting a bit of work", but I just took a load down to a live auction and blew them out as-is, for exactly the reasons Frenchy noted.

There's only so much time, and one of my kopping parameters now is what I call the DWF: the Deal-With Factor. So that's really a pure cost-benefit analysis. How much time and effort is it going to take in relation to the profit delta? In this case, it's tricky, as the resale prices for these Lane tables are all over the shop. If you're going for top dollar, you are more or less obliged to render that item pristine, but unless you're going to do it yourself, you've got a couple hundred bucks or more going into refinishing.

I see people asking a couple grand for these, but that's on Chairish or 1stDibs where the asking prices are usually bonkers and actual sold prices are much less. I think that for this one, @Letric's suggestion is spot on: a quick wipe down and clean-up with some tinted oil will get you halfway towards maxing out your resale price on a local sale with relatively little effort.

I have a even simpler algorithm, or the Frenchy Delta as I'm going to call it now.
Use the little energy i have to make love to my gf or buff furniture....hmmm

 

[impuntura]

But seriously, I used to enjoy it and the satisfaction of doing a good job was almost as much reward as the extra dosh it would bring in but at some point I just said fukk it.
Let the next guy worry about it.