The Bargain Thread...seen a super special? Share it you fckers!

**Satan** · 02-02-2012, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by BLEGH!

Op shopping?? UGH!! Stop doing it Infinitude

Have your last two brain cells become divorced ?

**heist** · 02-02-2012, 06:34 PM

Originally Posted by Infinitude

Mentioned this in another thread, but found a fkn amazing full length black cotton/denim coat at a Chapel St Salvos store.

What pisses me off though is that The Age has published an article stating that op-shopping is in vogue (or words to that effect). FFS, it was much more fun when it wasn't cool. I don't care if it's become harder to find good shit, but I happen to value my personal space

i'm fairly sure you should give me that coat

**~Msv~** · 03-02-2012, 08:05 AM

Originally Posted by BLEGH!

Op shopping?? UGH!! Stop doing it Infinitude

OP shopping is great. You can find some awesome stuff, and for super cheap. Although since it became semi-cool to OP shop, they jacked the prices up.

**BLEGH!** · 03-02-2012, 09:39 AM

Are ya'll op-shoppers for realz?? : /

**Satan** · 03-02-2012, 09:40 AM

Why the fuck not??

**kyler** · 03-02-2012, 09:40 AM

Opportunity shopping is win

**heist** · 03-02-2012, 09:45 AM

+1 i shop the shit out of opp shops

you can't buy old shit new

**frogman** · 03-02-2012, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by BLEGH!

Are ya'll op-shoppers for realz?? : /

What are your arguments against op shopping. Please note that "its yucky because other people have worn the clothes" is not a valid argument.

**Psyche** · 03-02-2012, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by BLEGH!

Are ya'll op-shoppers for realz?? : /

They seem serious. Why tell others not to if it's their choice?

**ravewiththemachine** · 03-02-2012, 10:01 AM

Charity shops are awesome. I rarely get clothes but i look in them all the time. They're so random. After my xmas shopping, in a few areas around the city, it's was a shame to see how homogenised shops have become. It was pretty bad in uk when I left. Every shopping centre had the same shit. You walk down oxford st and the shops repeat. How can you have so many shops sell the same shit. You have no idea what you'll find in an op shop.

**~Msv~** · 03-02-2012, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by BLEGH!

Are ya'll op-shoppers for realz?? : /

Yes, its great. Although it can be frustrating sometimes. You can go numerous times and not find a single thing you like.

**BLEGH!** · 03-02-2012, 11:13 AM

ok so i have been one day to bout 5 different 'outlets' - Salvos, Good Sammys etc etc. for an 'op shop party' - which was actually a good idea for charity. The quality of 'stuff' was not quality and this is after having gone into numerous shops. Can't believe some of the clothes that were in there , smelly and stained to fuck. Blew my mind that there was a grundies bin in there also!! GROSS! Awesome if ya find that one 'piece' your looking for I guess but it wouldn't ever be my first stop. *shrug* Watever floats your boat. : )

**frogman** · 03-02-2012, 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by BLEGH!

ok so i have been one day to bout 5 different 'outlets' - Salvos, Good Sammys etc etc. for an 'op shop party' - which was actually a good idea for charity. The quality of 'stuff' was not quality and this is after having gone into numerous shops. Can't believe some of the clothes that were in there , smelly and stained to fuck. Blew my mind that there was a grundies bin in there also!! GROSS! Awesome if ya find that one 'piece' your looking for I guess but it wouldn't ever be my first stop. *shrug* Watever floats your boat. : )

So, you went into a second hand clothes shop and were simply disgusted to find that there were second hand clothes in there.

**BLEGH!** · 03-02-2012, 11:41 AM

LOLface.

**~Msv~** · 03-02-2012, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by frogman

So, you went into a second hand clothes shop and were simply disgusted to find that there were second hand clothes in there.

She is also going to be so disgusted, when she goes to Indonesia, to find Indonesians!

**Deej** · 03-02-2012, 11:51 AM

I have never bought second hand clothes and never will. I don't even like wearing fancy dress.

I like my gear FRESH

**heist** · 03-02-2012, 11:52 AM

op shop suits are the god damned business

just try finding houndstooth new

**BLEGH!** · 03-02-2012, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by Deej

I have never bought second hand clothes and never will. I don't even like wearing fancy dress. I like my gear FRESH

Amen !

**nVs** · 03-02-2012, 01:10 PM

all im gonna say is they aint what they used to be...
nothing like it..

u had over 10 adidas jackets, and all sorts of things...
id know the good 1's and best area's...armadale/gosnells were always good and prob would be 1 of the best now..

dont even bother with the city ones..

spins me out when i think i was op-shopin about 18 years ago..

not so much now, now im giving my clothes to them...

**Lyris** · 03-02-2012, 01:27 PM

I very very rarely buy new clothes.. and even then it's usually only underwear. most of my favourite clothes come from op shops. probably all my favourites actually.

**heist** · 03-02-2012, 01:47 PM

i used to be cagey about shopping in op shops... thought people with less cash than me could probably use the bargains more

not any more though, although it is annoying that most of 'em are some brand of religious

**Infinitude** · 03-02-2012, 04:51 PM

I actually find washing powder to me be scary than the thought of wearing something that was worn by another person. This is not to say that I don't wash my own clothes ;p.

That being said, I never ventured into the Subiaco Good Sammy's, for that place had a weird smell about it.

Op shopping is great when one considers that it decreases demands on the world's resources/slave labourers (sure it's a brownie points thing when measured against new clothes being produced, bought, sold, not sold/destroyed and has little impact but anyway), and it's a sport. You never know what you might find.

Talk of black coats, I think I made a huge mistake in parting with my big black Southampton FC bench coat, found at Freo Sammy's back in 07. Whoops

.

**flauntster** · 04-02-2012, 06:26 PM

thought i should mention that i was in harvey norman on thurs night and saw they had canon eos1100d with a lens for $399

thats ridiculously cheap for any dslr, i know peeps who have spent heaps more on point and clicks, so if anyones looking for a decent camera for cheap, snap that shit up ;]

**theloadedjuggler** · 04-02-2012, 08:13 PM

Bagged bananas 99c a kilo farmer jacks.

**~Msv~** · 06-02-2012, 12:31 PM

For all the subway lovers:
http://www.subway.com.au/Facebook/ap...eals/01_03.pdf

**BLEGH!** · 08-02-2012, 03:21 PM

You've all been talking bout the Coventry Markets recently:

http://www.livingsocial.com/cities/9...c-bakery-goods

**kyler** · 09-02-2012, 08:27 AM

Originally Posted by ~Msv~

For all the subway lovers:
http://www.subway.com.au/Facebook/ap...eals/01_03.pdf

You're a god among men.

**GrandMaster** · 09-02-2012, 08:44 AM

Originally Posted by heist

op shop suits are the god damned business

just try finding houndstooth new

op shops are the business full stop
i got a pair of doc martens that had been worn like twice for $15. that shit retails for like $250+

**Infinitude** · 09-02-2012, 09:27 AM

ffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

So wish I had $400 right now. I have always wanted a Digital SLR!

**kyler** · 09-02-2012, 09:54 AM

Originally Posted by flauntster

thought i should mention that i was in harvey norman on thurs night and saw they had canon eos1100d with a lens for $399

thats ridiculously cheap for any dslr, i know peeps who have spent heaps more on point and clicks, so if anyones looking for a decent camera for cheap, snap that shit up ;]

wow, that's an amazing deal. I paid $550 for the 1000d last August with the same lens.

**Satan** · 10-02-2012, 10:08 AM

so fucking cheap!

http://www.onlinecomputer.com.au/pro...oducts_id=8943

**GrandMaster** · 10-02-2012, 10:24 AM

cheap as fuck, but i'd never buy seagate ever again

i just bought this for $265

only comes with 1x250gb but i've already got my 4x2tb drives so i'm sweet

**c_avdas** · 10-02-2012, 10:26 AM

holy jizzballs that's cheap

I'm waiting for 2tb enterprise drives to come down in price so I can buy 6 of them

**fatnick** · 10-02-2012, 11:42 AM

Can you actually use either of those as block devices in VMware? I know there are a few NAS that can allow you to set up iScsi targets, but it seems a bit suss how it hasnt got iScsi in supported networking features but has the logo.

**GrandMaster** · 10-02-2012, 11:46 AM

the hp one def can, its just a low power dual core server in a cool box - you can install any os you want
something like freenas will do iscsi, you can install & boot it from a usb stick

**fatnick** · 10-02-2012, 12:00 PM

yeh running openfiler at the moment, a bit of fucking around but got the FC target/plug-in working

Have just bought a new $50k SAN from dell/emc and havent put it in production but doing some speed tests with my own openfiler system vs. new whizz bang dell. getting some comparable results. It seems disk speed is the bottle neck whatever configuration i have. Alright for a $2k inhouse SAN vs. $50k brand name. SAN's are such a fricken rip off

**GrandMaster** · 10-02-2012, 12:30 PM

yeah they are really expensive, but that's where all your data goes so you don't want it to break (and when it does, you want good support).
its not just perf either, its the redundancy you're paying for
which one did you get? i'm guessing for ~$50k its an ns120, if you've got some spare dollars you can chuck flash cache/tiering in there which should make it fly - plus it supports VAAI for offload of storage vmotion/template deployment tasks to the array
then you've got the raid type/config to play with to get the best perf for your workload
i could talk about this shit all day haha

**fatnick** · 10-02-2012, 01:01 PM

We got the Equal Logic PS4100. A bit cheaper that the NS120 but we got the VMWare bundle and upgraded it with the VMWare extras. 24 sas 2TB drives, 2 x RAID 60.

Getting annoyed at all the weekend hours i'm pulling migrating servers about ready to get this thing in production. Cant wiat until i can use Vmotion instead. Clocked up a week off and cant wait. Maybe thailand/bali for a quick getaway. Anyhoo...

**kantankruz** · 17-02-2012, 03:47 PM

With out a doubt THE best thing I have ever seen on gumtree.

http://perth.gumtree.com.au/c-Stuff-...AdIdZ355421438

Bargain? You fucking bet ya!

**Curare** · 17-02-2012, 03:53 PM

Pfft, someone is giving away free pigs in baldivis.

DIY BACONNNNNNNNNNN...

**golden_girl** · 17-02-2012, 07:00 PM

http://perth.gumtree.com.au/c-Stuff-...AdIdZ355605916

jim beam hat and a plane made of the cans. snap it up people!

YT · 18-02-2012, 06:09 AM

Originally Posted by golden_girl

http://perth.gumtree.com.au/c-Stuff-...AdIdZ355605916

jim beam hat and a plane made of the cans. snap it up people!

The other ads he has up are not shocking in the least.

http://perth.gumtree.com.au/c-Poster...serIdZ48313146

**c_avdas** · 18-02-2012, 09:57 AM

the wtb tarago parts is a bit of a departure

maybe he hit a tarago

**~Msv~** · 23-02-2012, 08:45 AM

@ Shell service stations (well, the one in Wanneroo, I presume they are all the same)
4 x powerades = $10

**David** · 23-02-2012, 10:03 AM

Originally Posted by ~Msv~

@ Shell service stations (well, the one in Wanneroo, I presume they are all the same)
4 x powerades = $10

the bp i was in last week had them $2 by the single. Must not be doing too well on the sales.

**David** · 23-02-2012, 02:29 PM

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**BLEGH!** · 01-03-2012, 04:18 PM

For the vego's........

Eco-Friendly Lunch for Two including Main Meal and Drink Each @ PAWS Cafe.
^$15

http://www.livingsocial.com/cities/907-perth-citywide/deals/282314-eco-friendly-lunch-for-two?temp_skip_roadblock=1

**flauntster** · 01-03-2012, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by BLEGH!

For the vego's........

Eco-Friendly Lunch for Two including Main Meal and Drink Each @ PAWS Cafe.
^$15

http://www.livingsocial.com/cities/907-perth-citywide/deals/282314-eco-friendly-lunch-for-two?temp_skip_roadblock=1

have you actually been in that place??

**BLEGH!** · 01-03-2012, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by flauntster

have you actually been in that place??

Hell no.
Why ? Is it shit ?

Vego at work says she loves it.........

**Deej** · 01-03-2012, 04:39 PM

hahahahaha depends if you like eating next to crack houses?

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