"Fell Off the Truck" Sales

In my last post, I discussed fell off the truck sales, which are more a curiosity than anything.  "What does fell off the truck mean?" ask those of you too lazy to follow the link the first sentence. Describing an item as fallen off the truck means it was either stolen or obtained through some other illegal means. Fell off the truck sales have many duplicate new items; the shear quantity of the items make their origin questionable at best.  When asked, most sellers say that they got the items from their old business or from their company (but what company gives away hundreds of dollars of merchandise to its employees?).  While uncommon, I have seen a fair number of these sales.  Here are some highlights:

• A sale with scores of DeWalt tools, all new.  The woman claimed it was from her construction company, but what company gets rid of new tools.  I saw she had another sale with a new set of tools two or three years later.
• A sale with two pallets of Seagate hard drives, five hundred gigabytes.  This was back when a drive this size was probably $200.
• A sale with many identical containers of shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, candy, etc.
• A sale with multiple boxes of approximately thirty-six fifty-packs of blank DVD's.

Fell off the truck sales are very hit and miss.  The woman selling the tools wanted new price for them. The people selling the hard drives wanted them for approximately one-fourth their retail value.  The man selling the DVD's wanted $1 for fifty, actually a good deal.  One thing I've noticed that all these sales have in common is that prices are non-negotiable.