On Sunday 29 August 2004 9:41 pm, Ted Harding wrote:
Hi Folks,
Does anyone have suggestions for disposing usefully (i.e. not simply taking it to the tip^H^H^H recycling centre) of assorted old computer kit?
Isn't taking it to the tip disposing of it usefully....
A lot of the guys that work at those places are on a peppercorn wage, they seem to be allowed to supplement that income by selling stuff that looks like it works (or can be fixed). Usually they have a little place for bits like that near their hut.
Generally you are stopped from dumping kit like that and they place it in this area....hopefully somebody will come along who has a use for it and pay a nominal amount.
When I was disposing of some surplus kit (all broken) a while ago I spent some time asking anybody who would listen if they wanted free kit to play with.
No interest.
Yet I put the whole lot in a skip outside the office a week later...it was emptied overnight (and not by the skip company) The only computer related kit that was left by the morning was a jurassic QMS laserprinter (that I guess was too heavy for anybody to drag away)
So my tip is simple (it relies on you living somewhere with decent foot traffic)...leave the kit outside your house in plain view..it won't stay there more than 2 days. *grin*