Posted by Dennis (IP: 152.163.207.61) on February 27, 2000 at 07:33:24:
In Reply to: 5 finger discount explained! posted by TParker on February 27, 2000 at 01:47:26:
: Five finger discount is everything you can put in your pockets at the mall(ie. Junk yard) because everything you can't put in your pocket they will charge you 2-3 times what it is worth. Most salvage yards get the cars for less than $200.00 and make more than $3000.00 on them by the time they sell the engines(to machine shops $300-$400), Transmitions(to tranny shops $200-$300) and then everything else on the car until there is just a shell, which they crush and sell the metal to a recycling facility for $.60 per pound usually 1500lbs. = $900. In total they make some good money on what other people call garbage. Granted that they have to sit on it for a long time, they still make money. So if I or anyone else pockets a few nikle and dime screws and gas caps, but we pay $200.00 for a Versile rear axle, or $40.00 each for Disc break spindles I think we are entitled to the little things.
: BTW no one has gotten the answer right yet so I guess you Comet guy's don't want it, maybe I should put it back????