Thrift stores?
this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2026
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I've given that some thought, unfortunate all that is nearby is a goodwill and a Salvation Army lace and both of them are absurdly overpriced for what they are.
I've spent some time browsing 
and have found a couple shops that sell replacement/repair parts for various ones that I'm looking over right now. The tent was in the lower end cost wise, and the two places I've looked at replacement poles are just a few dollars cheaper than just buying a new tent, once shipping is factored in. It's almost not worth replacing, which I wonder if that was the intent sometimes. I can buy a fiberglass blank to repair just the broken section but again, shipping is like 3/4 the cost.
I'm just going to keep an eye out for something and maybe I'll luck out eventually, or I find something that's just good enough and I'll use that. I roam the national seashore here a bunch and run across abandoned tents pretty often. Maybe I can cut down a pile from a trashed tent or smth.
Ya, when I was living out a pickup truck and a tent, I snapped poles pretty often due to wild Florida storms. Did a lot of mixing and matching. Coleman sells a kit of sorts iirc that I used a couple times, but eventually I was just pulling stuff out of trash and thrift stores.