If you are planning a PCT trip, or other big trip, or you just love saving, REI used gear sales are for you! It is SO worth the $20 to become an REI member for the hundreds and hundreds of dollars you'll save at the sales. Many of the items are brand new that people have just returned for various reasons. If you're lucky enough to live somewhere like the Bay Area there are dozens of REI's all less than an hour away (at most). With so many locations you can go to a sale every weekend of the month! Not that we do that...
The lines can get a little crazy, so you'll want to get there early.
In the Bay Area you can get there around 6-6:30am and you'll most likely be one
of the first people there, anything past that and you're not a true addict (or as Alex and I like to say, in the Daniel Day Lewis voice from "There Will Be Blood," "I'm a used gear girl!").
People come with their iPods and camping chairs and/or
sleeping bags to wait until they pass out tickets (some do tickets with appointment times so you can leave and come back later at your time), or the four hours until they open the gates when the sale starts. Then it's a mad rush to cram all of the gear they can hold into their arms or mesh REI bags. Watch out for flying elbows and some interesting "characters." 
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