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Originally Posted by nmboone
It's kind of embarrassing!
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Why?
If you saw a $20 bill in the dumpster, would you be embarrassed to lean in and pick it up? If so, why? If not, why would it be embarrassing to pick up a $20 DVD?
I thought of one of my wife's favorite trash-picking stories. In 1990, Disneyland was celebrating its 35th anniversary. Kodak was running a promotion to mail in box tops from film boxes (you remember film) to get a free 35th anniversary watch. At the time, I was a pretty active dealer of Disney memorabilia so I did my best to get as many free watches as I could.
Anyway, we were attending my medical school graduation at the Philadelphia Academy of Music, a formal, ritzy affair. Of course, hundreds of photos were being snapped by everyone attending. So there we were, dressed in our finest, reaching into all the trashcans to pull out the discarded Kodak boxes to get the proof of purchase panels needed for the free watches.
The same year, we also got a ton of boxes when we visited Disney World, another place where thousands of pictures are taken daily. We did particularly well with the trash can in the Camera Shop on Main Street, where lots of people bought film and immediately opened and tossed the box.
I ended up with a few dozen watches. I sold them for about $15 each and made quite a nice profit.