I got the last laugh at a thrift store

[truckerofbc]

It pays to read the manual. While thrift store shopping today I stumbled upon a rare find. A 100 channel programmable scanner that was being sold for $5.It is an older version, but retail you can see the price as 299.95 + Tax!!

Also you can see how many Safeway tickets I picked from the garbage today...about 150 in one trip.

Now when I got home obviously I was eager about my scanner...can't afford to buy a brand new one...so I plugged in 2 AA's and didn't work...so I read the manual and discovered that the battery compartment pulls out and underneath is a spot for 2 more batteries so I am sure the thrift store didn't know this either and I am sure they just plugged in 2 AA's and saw it didn't work so they tried pawning it off...believe me, I check BC Auctions, EBAY and flea markets and you cannot get a scanner for less than $100 that works!! Check out the pics below.

[cliff]

sounds lke a really good deal!! what are these scanners? and whats the stack of magazines? I think you should go back and tell them just for fun lOL

[truckerofbc]

Scanners are for listening to weather, Public Services, RCMP, Hospitals, Government agencies, logging roads, etc.

The tickets are from the safeway contest which I have been giving out inthe Canada Safeway thread.

[SmackUTwice]

Ah, love it!

Great stuff!

[Alee142010]

Scanners are for listening to weather, Public Services, RCMP, Hospitals, Government agencies, logging roads, etc.

The tickets are from the safeway contest which I have been giving out inthe Canada Safeway thread.

Are you planning on selling it on ebay or something? Great job! If I saw that thing I would have thought it was some sort of scientific calculator!!

[truckerofbc]

No, I love listening to them while I am in the truck.

[seapotato]

great find!!

you always get so many sw ballots, i only found like 5 today loool.

[Deal_Princess]

cool u remind me of my dad lol he woulda been all over that too he loves his thrift store finds.

[momofkali]

Nice!

I would be so distracted listening to that lol

[coupon girl]

wow gotta love thrift store deals- awesome find my father-in law used to have one very interesting listening to it

[sweetmomma]

What do you do with the Safeway ballots?

[ccmp1974]

Great find!!

[orv]

pretty sweet deal!

[marlenebushey]

My dad had a scanner years ago, they aren't cheap. You got a great deal !!

[Minou]

My grandmother loved listening to her police scanner in the eighties while sitting in her kitchen. At the time, I thought it wasn't legal to use one in a vehicle for some reason. Is it okay to do now?

My dad was a truck driver whenever he had holidays from being a teacher/principal. He used to love talking on the CB. He even had a CB installed in our conversion van camper so he could listen to the CB while driving.