Value of items

[Stormin Mormon]

Idiot reporting, sir! I took the monitor, minus cord, to my church's dumpster. I figured it was about to be put in dumpster, and I gave it another chance at life.

I did a good save, last year. Some folks cleaning out house, and they were literally about to throw a Hallicrafter tube type receiver out the second floor window to the roll off dumpster. I intercepted it, and shipped it to a friend who restores such things.

Note to Tegger: Yesterday, I set up a mail rule, I no longer see Moaners Hub posts, which end in example dot com. You also, sadly, disappeared. If that concerns you (not appearing on one PC in one living room) you can change your reply email adress by one letter.

. Christ> Tegger wrote:

[Stormin Mormon]

CY: Bother, we had the same idea.

CY: Sorry to hear that. Will they offer their new line of desktop computers at Dollar Tree?

CY: Oops, that doesn't sound good.

CY: Maybe a niche market for the serious computer needs?

[Stormin Mormon]

I recoil at the thought.

Yes, in the city near me, there are a lot of copper clapper kleptomaniacs, like Claude Cooper from Cleveland. As reported by the Cleaning Lady.

One of my former friends was a copper grabber. He used to break up the ferrite with a hammer, and then rewind the copper into small coils, for some thing to do.

I don't approve of people leaving a big mess like that. But then, they didn't ask me.

. Christ>

[Tegger]

Stormin Mormon wrote in news:jrlTt.161624$ [e-mail]:

This is the reason I (and Homeowners' Hub) used example.com:

It appears that example.org is also used for this purpose, so I have changed my domain to example.org. Do I get past the sentry now?

[micky]

Thanks. This adds to my feeling that Goodwill is more expensive here than some other places. Because of supply and demand. In Asheville NC CDs were a dollar, and here, at least at the Salvation Army, they're 3. And VCR were 25 dollars at the SA until less that a year ago. Finally they're down to 10 but still not 5 like someone else reported.

I too should try a more expensive n'hood.

Interesting thing: I'm on 3 or 4 Freecycle mailing lists. and in the area around me, the number of things offered is at least 10 times the number of things requested.

On two other lists, in adjoining areas, the number of things requested is at least as many as the number of things offered. And neither of these two areas are poor. It's possible that the particular people asking for things are poor, but the area around me has some poor people too and yet the numbers are as they are.

I'm not against asking for things. I've had things I didn't use and was happy to give away once I knew someone wanted them. But the difference in ratios must mean something.

[dgk]

That's not good for Capitalism. We need to keep buying new things if we want the economy to work. I actually have a high def CRT TV. It's just has heavy as the old TVs but is high def. I thought about replacing it with a nice flat screen LCD or LED, but I can't bring myself to just chuck it because it's a heavy box. It isn't like I move it much.

[Stormin Mormon]

I remember back in the Reagan years. My phone rang, I hired help, and life was good. Now, we have all the various levels of socialism. I'm up to my eyes in debt, no hired help, and can't afford gasoline.

I have lost hope. Change it back!

When the regulations lighten up a bit, the economy will recover. Then, I'll start buying new stuff again. In the meantime, I'm using a PC from about five years ago, drive a 1995 model work van, and live in a 1974 trailer home. Thank you, socialists.

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[micky]

What's little known is that the mines of today were the waste dumps and landfills of thousands of years ago. Cavemen and other primitive man used to gather bits of coal, germanium, gold, uranium, and all the other metals from all over the lands they occupied, sort them, and pile them in naturally formed fissures in the ground, what became mines in the 18th - 21st centuries.

The cavemen had no long term purpose for this gathering and depositing. It was done as recreation, like bowling, golf, and video games.

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[RobertMacy]

While at University I learned a valuable lesson about how people 'value' an item. There were two venues of classic films being shown. One was FREE, just show up and watch. The other cost a pittance, but still cost you a coin. Both venues showed relatively equal quality of films, but in the 'free' venue you could barely watch, let alone enjoy. Attendees were talking all the time, or worse, throwing paper trash about to gain some attention [much like today's internet]. In the other venue, you could hear a pin drop and really enjoy the film. The lesson? People don't value what's free. So don't give them anything. Always, always make them pay something and they will value the gift. A small sign, "Works, yours for a donation of $1.00" probably would have gotten the item into someone's hands, even stolen at least. Sorry, didn't mean to bring up the evils of presenting temptation to the weak.

[RobertMacy]

a few years ago while in California, I had 5 dead monitors to dispose of.

*IF* I hid them one at a time in my trash bin, I was liable for something like a $500 fine if the trash collectors found one. So, called trash pickup and found the charge to pick up a dead monitor was $25, ...each. Then, looked around for a local recycling plant who then paid me $5 each for the monitors. All in all, not bad. Only 3 miles away, made $25 dollars, kept the environment clean(er), and somebody got the gold and nickel out of those. I think they wanted the glass, too. Not sure.

[The Daring Dufas]

I work on their business PC's and they're good machines. The problems with any of the business computers I service is the simple fact that the corporate office of the stores won't pay for regular cleaning of the machines to get the dust out of them and the computers overheat and quit. They don't call us until the darn things die. O_o

I have a bunch of Dell computers, I'm on a Precision 390 right now and the Dell computers here at the office are good machines. Just like HP, the business machines are good and only die when they're allowed to clog up with dust which causes them to overheat. o_O

I have to scan documents and upload them along with pictures to corporate service companies we do work for and it's difficult to do on a laptop and would be darn near impossible to do on a tablet. I don't think I could run the software I use to download results from our network test equipment to a tablet for upload to our service companies. ^_^

TDD

[harryagain]

CRTs and TVs can be taken to the recycle centre here. You go down there and there are hundreds of them in skips. Most apparently in working order.

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[harryagain]

There are no socialists in the USA. It was capitalism that f***ed y'all up over there.

[harryagain]

Oregon eh. Anywhere near this place?

[Jon Danniken]

They make money from extracting the lead (several pounds worth from each CRT) from the glass:

Jon

[The Daring Dufas]

The copper deflection coil on the neck of the picture tube is the most valuable item in the CRT monitor. ^_^

TDD

[The Daring Dufas]

I suppose that explains what happens to public housing units? Things are worth what you pay for them. O_o

TDD

[willshak]

The copper in the power cord is worth more than the monitor. I've put many CPUs, Monitors, and printers out for Spring pickup for the past few years and they were still there after all the scavengers got to them first.

[krw]

You reuse your garbage?

[Stormin Mormon]

Depends. If you wash them, they're reusable.

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