Reply #216: Won't the stores count it as an insurance write-off anyway? [View All]

They can't sell it if it's been in that toxic soup or been compromised in any way. Those stores have paid through the nose for insurance, and they're going to write off all or most of the inventory, I'm sure. They do in fires, even just for smoke damage, as people won't buy anything that smells or looks funny. They'll get their money for it, so why can't someone have it who really needs it and is willing to look past the smell or the look of the product?

I'm trying to open up a yarn shop, and if it were open and something like that happened, I'd have to write it all off as a total loss. Water damaged books, pattern pamphlets, wooden needles, and yarn won't sell, so if someone broke in and took them, it'd be fine with me--heck, I'd offer them a job to come back and help clean up after all the water's gone.

I helped with the flood clean up in 1993 in St. Louis, and I can tell you that the water is foul, foul, foul. Those stores won't be selling anything that was in it.