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Weird question I know but..................
piggysteve:
Its great for picking up old washing machines, Ive got a Disco and SJ410 almost made from the things :lol:
A lot better than buying sheet steel
Disco Matt:
--- Quote from: dxmedia on May 18, 2010, 09:15:42 ---
--- Quote from: winchman on May 18, 2010, 08:05:00 ---I wouldnt reccomend it.
Lad near us was collecting broken computers
repairing them and putting them back on Freecycle as a few dedicated people on Freecycle do.
Problem was the moderators have some very powerful search tools and tracked him down to an Ebay account he was freecycling about 1/4 of them and selling the rest.
As you can imagine it didnt go down well with the locals, quite a few popped around for a chat LOL
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So he was collecting (spending money going out of his way and removing junk from people) broken computors.
He was fixing them (spending time and money, stripping parts and using his skills).
He was giving 25% of everything back to the community for free.
Sounds like a sound lad to me and a very sound business plan.
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I'd tend to agree. Nobody can be expected to repair broken items and put them up for grabs at no charge, it just isn't fair.
There has always been treasure in other people's junk. For example, the owners of our local recycling dump swan around in recent double cab pickups or a Kahn Range Rover (even seen a Porsche a few times). They make their money from the stuff that we drag out to the tip using our own fuel and time, and I suspect they still get local government funding to operate it too. They even manage to paint it as them offering a service to the local community, rather than making money from our waste!
Yoshi:
--- Quote from: Disco Matt on May 18, 2010, 16:47:39 ---
--- Quote from: dxmedia on May 18, 2010, 09:15:42 ---
--- Quote from: winchman on May 18, 2010, 08:05:00 ---I wouldnt reccomend it.
Lad near us was collecting broken computers
repairing them and putting them back on Freecycle as a few dedicated people on Freecycle do.
Problem was the moderators have some very powerful search tools and tracked him down to an Ebay account he was freecycling about 1/4 of them and selling the rest.
As you can imagine it didnt go down well with the locals, quite a few popped around for a chat LOL
--- End quote ---
So he was collecting (spending money going out of his way and removing junk from people) broken computors.
He was fixing them (spending time and money, stripping parts and using his skills).
He was giving 25% of everything back to the community for free.
Sounds like a sound lad to me and a very sound business plan.
--- End quote ---
I'd tend to agree. Nobody can be expected to repair broken items and put them up for grabs at no charge, it just isn't fair.
There has always been treasure in other people's junk. For example, the owners of our local recycling dump swan around in recent double cab pickups or a Kahn Range Rover (even seen a Porsche a few times). They make their money from the stuff that we drag out to the tip using our own fuel and time, and I suspect they still get local government funding to operate it too. They even manage to paint it as them offering a service to the local community, rather than making money from our waste!
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No-one is expecting them to do anything, people just offer unwanted items on there that might be of use to someone else. Note i said might be of use to someone else, not profit for someone else.
Saffy:
--- Quote from: winchman on May 18, 2010, 08:05:00 ---Problem was the moderators have some very powerful search tools
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hehe :^o or they know how to type more than one keyword into google.
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