micmic66
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posted on October 1, 2002 01:54:47 PM new
While foraging through some old books at a thrift shop I found $60, 3-20's stuck in a small Greg Shorthand book from the 1920's. The bills were modern 20's. I took the money and ran. Would you have??
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dadofstickboy
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posted on October 1, 2002 02:04:57 PM new
Hope you bought the book!
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micmic66
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posted on October 1, 2002 02:12:16 PM new
No.....I didn't buy the book. They didn't have change for a twenty....
[ edited by micmic66 on Oct 1, 2002 02:16 PM ]
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logansdad
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posted on October 1, 2002 02:18:18 PM new
Congrats on your find!
But what does this have to do with ebay?
These posts should be posted on the Round Table forum.
"An Army of One"
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computerboy
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posted on October 1, 2002 02:18:40 PM new
No, I wouldn't have, as the book would not have belonged to me.
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lindajean
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posted on October 1, 2002 02:25:16 PM new
Yes, I would. Had I found a wallet in the store with $60 in it, I would have tried to find the owner or returned it to the store clerk.
But, $60 stuck in an old book that wound up in a thrift store is long past forgotten about by whoever it belonged to and I'd say "finder's keeper's".
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rocketguy
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posted on October 1, 2002 02:40:22 PM new
And we wonder why we have scandals like Enron? Though I suspect you are a Troll, on the offhand chance you aren't then you are a thief.
[ edited by rocketguy on Oct 1, 2002 02:41 PM ]
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lindajean
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posted on October 1, 2002 02:49:12 PM new
PS: I would have bought the book. That way I purchased the item for the asking price and anything that came with it would legally belong to me!
And, for anyone who thinks that is not right...have you read the past posts about what did you find...
Someone found over $100 in an old robe they purchased at a yard sale, someone else found money in an old book,...and many more posted.
None said they took the money back!
I would have felt far worse taking it from someone at a garage sale where my conscience would have told me I knew where to return it then taking it from a store...thrift or not!
And:::::
Have you figured out how to get the money stashed over in your Paypal account with the other $5,000 your wife doesn't know about Seems you do like to post about money...maybe you are a troll.
[ edited by lindajean on Oct 1, 2002 02:51 PM ]
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micmic66
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posted on October 1, 2002 02:53:14 PM new
ROCKETGUY...smoke another joint. Yeah, from a multimillionare to a troll. Really I am just a regular guy poking around a message board found at an image hosting site JUST LIKE YOU. Sour people need not respond!!
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Libra63
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posted on October 1, 2002 03:08:16 PM new
Mimic, where I spend probably more than that at thrift shops it is nice to know someone also takes it out. You would think that the books would have been searched before they put them out. Their loss is your gain.
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slabholder
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posted on October 1, 2002 03:08:16 PM new
Don't Judge a Book by it's Cover. First skim it for cash, then run like heck!
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on October 1, 2002 03:08:21 PM new
Something similar happened to me at a flea market many years ago.
A seller had an old doctor's satchel. You know the kind: pebbly kind of leather, maybe 12 inches high... I looked inside, and tucked deep inside an interior pocket was an old $100 bill.
I asked the seller what he wanted for the bag ($10) and paid him. I started to walk off and when I was 20 steps away, he called out "Hey!" I turned around.
"Did you pay me for that," he hollered.
"Yeah. I gave you a ten."
And kept walking.
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MAH645
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posted on October 1, 2002 03:13:41 PM new
I once found $20 under a pack of hamburger at the grocery store. Also found $50.00 in a parking lot at a grocery store.
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NearTheSea
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posted on October 1, 2002 03:19:15 PM new
You all are too lucky.... I LOSE money...
One year, xmastime too, in Costco, damn... $200. Store was packed too.... well someone had a good Xmas....
[email protected]
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saddamhussien
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posted on October 1, 2002 03:28:13 PM new
If you did not buy the book, you had no right to take (steal) anything that was inside the book.
Once you buy the book, then it becomes your property and also anything else that is inside of it.
To make it right, you should give the $60 to your favorite charity.
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dadofstickboy
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posted on October 1, 2002 03:57:38 PM new
micmic66:
$5,060.00!!
I said it before and I'll say it again!
For the highest returnable interest & the most BANG for your Buck!
Call: go-gogrrrl!!
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micmic66
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posted on October 1, 2002 04:06:44 PM new
dadofstickboy
LOL!!!! $5060 buys a nicer piece than that!!
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nharmon
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posted on October 1, 2002 04:23:59 PM new
I bought some clothes at a yard sale and came home to type them up and I found a $5 bill in the pocket of one of the shorts. It was a pretty ritzy area I was going to yard sales at and $5 is nothing to them so I didn't track down the owner. I was broke that by the end of the day so it really came in handy.
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eagleedc
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posted on October 1, 2002 06:09:28 PM new
I agree, the money belonged to the store until you purchased the book. In my eyes your a thief. You asked for it, you got it, that's my opinion.
-Eagleedc
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tooltimes
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posted on October 1, 2002 08:19:57 PM new
If you had returned the money either to the minimum wage workers or the store manageement almost surely they would have kept the money and took it home as a perk from a fool.
A friend found a wallet in a major US city and then saw two policemen and told them that he found a wallet and handed it to them. There was no money inside but there was a drivers license and other personal things like photos. The officers looked inside the wallet and said where's the money? He said there wasn't any when I found it. They told him next time he finds a wallet with no money in it to throw it away. Real nice cops.
[ edited by tooltimes on Oct 1, 2002 08:20 PM ]
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quickdraw29
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posted on October 2, 2002 12:17:25 AM new
The store doesn't own the money, they own the book with lost money in it. Since it's lost, you're supposed to turn it into the police for 30 days until the owner claims it, and then it is legally yours. The store would had to go through the same process to claim the lost money, they don't own it automatically just because it's sitting in some donated book.
But why go through such nonsense? When you lose a little cash do you see if someone turned it into the police? I bet no one does, so why waste your time? You did the common sense thing to pocket it, and nothing immoral about it. Had it been $1000 there may be someone desperetely trying to find it so in this case it'd be moral to turn it into the police.
Everyone is entitled to my opinion.
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nharmon
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posted on October 2, 2002 08:13:44 AM new
JUST GO BUY THE DARN BOOK SO EVERYONE GETS OFF YOUR BACK ABOUT IT.
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micmic66
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posted on October 2, 2002 08:37:03 AM new
nharmon,
Yes, I'd better go pay for the book. I will climb out from under the boulder I moved under and find myself a string-beard and hat and just go pay for it!!
lol!!
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pelorus
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posted on October 2, 2002 09:07:18 AM new
Once I found $1200 in an envelope on the floor at the observation deck of the Empire State Building (really!). Drug money? Japanese tourists? Maybe I shouldn't have kept it but I did. Figured that whoever I turned it in to would keep it.
This has nothing to do with the $60-in-a-book question, or eBay, but I don't care so don't rag on me.
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lowprofile
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posted on October 2, 2002 09:57:32 AM new
I found a whole bunch of sheets of new old stamps from Europe in a Russian Book in a thrift store...I bought the book for 1.99 and sold the stamps on Ebay for a total of 17,350 dollars over 2 months!
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JACKSWEBB
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posted on October 2, 2002 11:29:05 AM new
LOWPROFILE,,,,,,NOW THAT!!!!! IS STEALING!!!! ALL THE ABOVE IS PEANUTS....I AM SURE YOU DONATED AT LEAST HALF BACK TO THE CHARITY FOR THEIR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE. GOOD FOR YOU. FOR DONATING, THAT IS,,,,,HAHAHAHHA.
I ONCE FOUND $300.00 IN A PAPER CLIP IN THE GUTTER ONCE,,,,NEW TRANSMISSION!!!! THANK YOU!
AND THE BEAT GOES ON.......
[ edited by JACKSWEBB on Oct 2, 2002 11:31 AM ]
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tooltimes
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posted on October 2, 2002 11:55:22 AM new
There is much wrangling in this thread over ethics.
Is it unethical to see an ebay seller selling a valuable auction item at a very low starting price without a reserve in a very poor choice of auction category and misspelling of very keywords and not tell the seller? Or bid on the item and win it at a steal because it never showed up in the search engine or proper category?
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JACKSWEBB
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posted on October 2, 2002 12:14:19 PM new
TOOLS,,WHEN I FIRST GOT ON E BAY,,,MISSPELLED, KERESINE, FRIEND SAW MY ERROR,I WATCHED MY SPELLING MORE CAREFUL. TOLD A FEW OTHERS OF MY FINDING IN E BAY. KEROSENE,,,,,,NOT THE WAY THEY SPELLED IT, MOST NEVER REPLIED BACK OR E MAILED BACK AS IF I HAD INSULTED THEM. WHO ARE YOU?? LEAVE ME ALONE!!! NEVER BOTHERED WITH THAT AGAIN.
AND THE BEAT GOES ON.......
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kiara
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posted on October 2, 2002 12:35:56 PM new
I took the money and ran.
I would have purchased the book but I wouldn't have run. Best to just walk out real cool like you found nothing. 
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nharmon
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posted on October 2, 2002 01:12:39 PM new
look I see go-gogrrl came for her money to start a new "Ebay about me page" good for her. I see she must have gotten micmic66's $5,000 and fixed her self up a little.
[ edited by nharmon on Oct 2, 2002 01:14 PM ]
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