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CaboRon
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Segundas
For those of us who shop at segundas.....
Which city .... Cabo San Lucas or La Paz , has the best and the cheapest segundas ??
What is your opinion gleaned from real experience.
CaboRon
The edit was to change (by popular demand) the spelling to Secundas with an "a" ....
[Edited on 1-24-2008 by CaboRon]
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Heather
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There's a bunch in La Paz right on the way into town. I've looked, but not bought there. I bought a couch from one in Cabo once, OK prices. It was
near the stadium, the marketplace, the bazaar de todo. I'm not sure if it's still there. Most things in La Paz are cheaper than Cabo, though, so
think I'd look there. Happy Shopping, Heather
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the row of segundas entering La Paz are fantastic and very cheap.
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Bob H
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How about the Ensenada area?
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Ensenada has entire residential streets converted to Segundas. Treasures abound. I once bought an authentic copy of a Salvador Dali painting.
Close proximity to the border makes for large inventories at good prices.
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ok, ok, I can't stand it--------what's a "segundo"?
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Second hand store. I browsed a few of them in Ensenada once - the area where they're all right next door to each other. I was looking for books in
Spanish. There were none. And the prices on other stuff was a bit higher than you can find at yard sales and segundos in the US. When I go to
AmVets on Pacific Highway in San Diego, you will find Mexicans with their shopping cart piled high with stuff. I think the goods are headed for Baja
norte segundos - stuff from yard sales too. So shop the mother lode - San Diego yard sales.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by wilderone
Second hand store. I browsed a few of them in Ensenada once - the area where they're all right next door to each other. I was looking for books in
Spanish. There were none. And the prices on other stuff was a bit higher than you can find at yard sales and segundos in the US. When I go to
AmVets on Pacific Highway in San Diego, you will find Mexicans with their shopping cart piled high with stuff. I think the goods are headed for Baja
norte segundos - stuff from yard sales too. So shop the mother lode - San Diego yard sales. |
Seems like almost everything is cheaper here, but then there is the problem of transporting the items.
There is one full time segundo in Bahia Asuncion and then there are the traveling ones from time to time. Also, there is a good appliance one in
Vizcaino. We have shopped at all of them---bought a number of items that we know would have been cheaper in San Diego. We wish we had easy access to
more segundos.
One interesting thing that we have discovered in a couple of segundos. The man will give us a better price than will the woman. If Raul is not at
his shop in Vizcaino, we don't shop there----prices suddenly increase.
And when we were buying a chest at the one in town, the owner quoted us 1000 pesos, and his wife poked him and in Spanish, said no, try 2000 pesos ---
we only shop when he is there.
Just an observation.
Oh, in Asuncion, it is always a rush when a traveling segundo shows up in town---sometimes it can be difficult for them to unload as everyone wants
first choice. They bring things into town that are not readily available there.
Diane
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DENNIS
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This is driving me nuts. In Ensenada they're called "Segunda" with an A. Are they called "Segundo" down south?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
This is driving me nuts. In Ensenada they're called "Segunda" with an A. Are they called "Segundo" down south? |
The one in Vizcaino is called a Bazaar. 
I don't remember if it is segunda or segundo??? But I think segunda is correct.
Then again a local in the hardware store told me that they were called someting totally different in Mexico, but since I didn't write it down, I
don't remember. 
Fortunately, they don't sell drums.
Diane
[Edited on 1-23-2008 by jdtrotter]
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DENNIS
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Diane...
They sell them but, they go fast.
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CaboRon
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
This is driving me nuts. In Ensenada they're called "Segunda" with an A. Are they called "Segundo" down south? |
I don't know either Dennis.... if I knew how to do proper conjugations I might have a chance at speaking more than pidgen Spanish
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| Quote: | Originally posted by CaboRon
I don't know either Dennis.... if I knew how to do proper conjugations I might have a chance at speaking more than pidgen Spanish |
I used to worry about my Spanish too, Ron. When I quit worrying about it and just started talking, everything improved. Half the time I make up
words but, I just keep talking. It works, probably because most Mexicans are too gracious to correct you and if only one word out of five is
correct, the point will be made. Try it....you'll see. When the other persons eyes glaze over, you know, the thousand yard stare.......you'll
have to start over.
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There'a a great place to buy furniture at one of the segundas on the left, as you enter La Paz from the north. As you face this cluster of
second-hand shops, the walkways through it are shaped like an upside-down "U." The first segunda on the left, as you enter this U, is run by a lady
who has posted PRICES on everything--a real miracle.
The lady who runs it has buyers in the States and is picky about qualilty, so you don't have to wade through a pile of junk to get to good stuff, and
her prices are reasonable.I don't know whether she speaks English.
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
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No hijacking intended - just clarification - it is segunda because it is a tienda.
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In my experience, a swap meet or flea market is a "Pulga" and a second-hand store like Goodwill etc is a "mugrero".
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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CaboRon
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaGuera
No hijacking intended - just clarification - it is segunda because it is a tienda. |
Then that must be the "female" conjegation. No ?
CaboRon
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There is quite a pack of segundas in the San Quintin area right on Hwy 1. Never stopped, but maybe I will pickup a couch next time down
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Hose A
Diane does this ring a bell?
In D.F.--------Tianquis.
In interior de la republica---Chiveras |
Not sure --- but I will ask.
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CaboRon
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaGuera
No hijacking intended - just clarification - it is segunda because it is a tienda. |
Is that kinda' like "which came first the chicken or the egg"?
CaboRon
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