If items were broken, my brother would fix them and that would automatically mean he got a share of the profit.
Three years later, when I visited my family for the first time since leaving Guatemala, I learned that many of the families in our neighborhood had in their living room a piece of “trash” someone in North America had discarded[13].
As word got out about my father’s up-market “trash,” people started to travel up to two hours to buy their first TV, radio, VCR, Walkman, MP3, and more.[14] Demand was huge!
At first people bought whatever was available. Then they started making special orders. That forced me to get up even earlier on the weekends and travel from town to town, looking for these particular housewares[15] in yard sales where the wealthiest lived and the best items were on offer[16].
At the same time, competition started to build in San Marcos, and my father decided to partner with a friend who was in charge of “advertising.” For each new client the friend brought to the house, he would get a commission[17].
Years later, my father found out that he could buy similar items along the border with Mexico, where many Guatemalans (returning from the United States and loaded with secondhand goods) were selling their belongings, because they didn’t want to pay import duties.[18] With that new source of supply, my father became independent from me.
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