[Tfug] WorldCare suggestions?

[Marco Savo]

Well, here they were asking for suggestions, no?
- "ask for Joe". Joe wasn't there, they had to call him on the cell phone
(after I insisted) just to know they have a pile of these sun monitors
behind them
- for buy a dvd writer They explicitly asked me to came back the next week,
for buy something they have in the store. The week after I went by and they
told me they won't sell me any.

Yes, is not a store, but just a little bit of organization and
coordination...

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Hi, Marco,
>
> --- On Tue, 3/3/09, Marco Savo <savomarco at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Well, maybe better organization? I went to buy the "Sun Monitor"
> > posted here, and when I went in no one knows that they have these
> > monitors to sell.
>
> You will note in the original post that you *had* to "ask
> for Joe".  At any time, there are upwards of 250,000 pounds
> of goods in the facility.  And, probably 6 or 7 *volunteers*
> managing it all.
>
> Those people change from day to day.  And, each deals with
> only a certain portion of the "collection".  E.g., if you
> were to ask Joe if they have a Heparin pump that you could
> buy/borrow, he would stare at you with a blank expression
> (since Joe isn't involved in handling any of the medical
> supplies).  Likewise, if you ask someone in the *store*
> about something that is *not* in the store, you are likely
> to get the same blank stare.
>
> [Go to Home Depot and ask the guy in the plumbing department
> if they carry clutch head screws; chances are he won't be
> able to answer you -- nor will the guy in the hardware
> department be able to tell you if they have closet flanges]
>
> > Another time I asked for a cd/dvd writer, they told me they
> > have some but they should be tested, that I should come back
> > the next week. The next week I went back, and one woman told
> > me in an unpleasant way that if I want a cd
> > or dvd writer to go to bestbuy.com, they won't sell me
> > one, they sell the whole computer.
>
> And, I'm willing to bet that the woman was in the middle of
> trying to do three things at once... answer your question,
> supervise some juveniles "doing time" on probation (this is
> a full-time job as these folks tend to need to be prodded
> to do *anything*), answer the phones, etc.
>
> Remember, WC isn't a store, its a charitable organization.
> Their goal is not to sell things but, rather, to *give*
> them to people/organizations in need.  The store exists
> just to help pay for the electricity/heat. As such, there
> isn't much effort put into selling items that aren't
> *easy* to sell.  More esoteric items tend to get sold by a
> broker to folks who know exactly what they are looking
> for and the risks of "buying used".
>
> In the past, I have tried to list many oddball things
> that I thought folks (here) might have a use for.  The
> results were discouraging.  So, now most of those things
> go straight into the "metal recycling" bin, etc.
>
> Approximately 3 tons of materials gets recycled there,
> *daily*.  So, it doesn't pay to hold onto items that
> won't sell quickly, if at all!  If a home can be found
> for them at some other charitable organization, great!
> If not, they are recycled for their component parts.
>
> > I'm not going there anymore
>
> If you want a "real store", you're much better off going
> to a real store!  :>  If you like more unusual things and
> don't want to be digging deep into your pockets just to
> *play* with them, you might try the biweekly UofA auctions
> (though you will find that to be a huge time-sink).  You
> might also check out PCR (?  I think I have misremembered
> that  :< ) at Park & 22nd -- they are organized  more like a
> regular store.
>
> --don
>
>
>
>
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Marco Savo
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