A Last Visit To Apache Reclamation And Electronics In Phoenix

In this video I take a tour of and shop at Apache Reclamation and Electronics in Phoenix Arizona. This is another of my favorite electronics surplus stores. Unfortunately they are shutting down. I got there as they were packing up the inventory to be shipped to their sister store Surplus City in Albuquerque New Mexico. I got one last chance to shop this amazing store and talk to the great people who have run it for so long. They and their store will be missed. Please visit www.mdpub.com for more information.
Also see the video I did on Surplus City in Albuquerque. • A visit to Surplus Cit...

[@lyndahobby2413]

I’m soooo sad they are gone! The last time I was in there the owner did mention that the store in NM made more so I guess it was inevitable. Spent hours and hours in that store ! Now I go to SW surplus next door to shooters world off of Indian School and 28th ave. It’s ok ….but not near as many things as Apache had.

[@afineliner740]

That's an 'Aladdin's Cave', what don't they have is the question.

[@redbaronrefining5322]

I have a few acres in queen creek if you need storage for anything. Grab me a few gold recovery goodies and the storage is free haha

[@ronliebermann]

I didn’t realize that this company is gone. I’d start a fifty acre Pick-N-Pull for old factory machines.
Maybe someplace in Tennessee. Pumps, motors, hydraulics, pneumatics, control panels, wire, computers, etc. Bring your toolbox.
I’d place the operation near a smelting furnace.

[@redbaronrefining5322]

What?!?!???? Nooooooo! My favorite store here!!! Aw man I’m so sad!!

[@jeremyortiz2927]

Bummer. Glad you got there before closeout. I'd consider shipping stuff home.

[@loveisalliam]

I would be scrapping most of what i see long before i had to quit premises. Hoarding is a problem.

[@rockman531]

Hey Mike, Welcome to Arizona. If you need a place to store some bigger items, I'd be glad to help you. Have fun up north! Jim in Phoenix.

[@shloomyshloms]

every time I went there and asked the price on something the owner (I guess) would say 1 million dollars and laugh. ha funny.

[@omegageek64]

When this video was filmed they had sold the building and were desperate to clear it out so the new owner could take possession in a couple weeks. They were practically giving stuff away the last few days. Too bad you missed it.

[@Lexst1]

LOL you should come by my place in Bradenton. I have been slowly putting stuff on line but way too much "stuff" in three 24x45 units. Even have bins of old chips:)

[@omegageek64]

Well, I'd like to see it sometime.

[@Donatellangelo]

I am late to the party, so sad they closed. I wonder if there are any alternatives?

[@shloomyshloms]

I'll miss the place, but many of their prices were ridiculous and made up on the spot, often based on wishful thinking prices on ebay. they would have sold more stuff if the prices were better, and some of the electronic components were over 20 years old (capacitors/resistors) and were bad or out of tolerance..

[@omegageek64]

Yeah, not sure how they calculated prices. Depended on who you asked. I think there was some emotional attachment to the inventory leading high price expectations. Still, they closed because of retirement, not bankruptcy. So they apparently sold enough to pay the bills. Even if it didn't look like anything ever changed in the store. Same issue with Surplus City in Albuquerque. Owned by the same family. A lot of AR inventory was moved there. It's still sitting outside in disintegrating cardboard Gaylord's. Will probably sit out there until it's dust and rust. But they seem to do enough business to keep the lights on, and even do a major renovation to the storefront.

[@shloomyshloms]

@@omegageek64 yeah I have been going there for at least 20 years. I went one time and bought some small light bulbs, they were 25 cents a box of 8. a week later I went back and the owner told me they were 25 cents a piece. I said that wasn't the price last week and he told me that was always the price. on multiple occasions when they sold radio tubes the person at the counter would go in the back room and look them up on ebay (they told me). I turned them down went home and bought 9 of the item (from ebay) for the price they quoted for 1. I always figured the scrap value of the entire lot was worth more than whatever they were making. there was stuff there that had been there for 20+ years. I think the owner told me they owned the lot so they didn't have many expenses.

[@stevebishop9468]

Maybe if their prices were not so high they would have survived