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When rich college kids dump designer items worth over $1,000
Ms Lena Geller with a toaster oven left behind when Duke University students moved out of her apartment complex at the end of the semester. PHOTO: CORNELL WATSON/NYTIMES
Valentino sneakers that retail for US$980 (S$1,255). A Tovala toaster oven, originally US$390. A Clear Home Design Lucite table, which would have cost US$899 – except in this case, it was free.
Ms Lena Geller found those items, and many others, in the dump of her apartment building in Durham, North Carolina, after scores of Duke University students had moved out at the end of the spring semester.
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