On Thu, 27 May 2021 20:44:46 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:
Commander Kinsey wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Commander Kinsey wrote
micky wrote
Rod Speed wrote
micky wrote
Is there any "market" for old electronics, even for free?
Depends on what it is. Quite a decent market for early personal
computers and some more specialised stuff like SCSI cards etc.
I actually found a recycler in driving distance
who claims he will even take my CRT tvs.
That's certainly a bit dubious.
I know, except for some weird situation I won't
find, no one wants a CRT TV but what about....
A westell DSL modem Hub
None here, we have moved to VDSL2+ now.
Might still be some demand there.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Westell-Wir...-/153433002888
still offered for $20 plus 9 shipping,
but does that mean anyone can use it?
They can if they still have a dsl service.
My wifi router.
Some do still use those as wifi access points to get more wifi access
in
their house.
a router without wifi?
A few do still use those.
(bought by mistake at a hamfest, when
I didn't notice it had no antenna. Otherwise
it looked just like the one I was using.
Thanks everyone. The guy who says he'll take the CRT tvs will also
thaek everything else electronic, AC or battery, and I'm going to use
what I find in this thread and decide how much other stuff to take to
him and how much to dispose of elsewhere.
A guy rang my doorbell a few weeks ago having spotted a few car
batteries
(well 1 car battery and 4 sealed ones from a UPS) lying at the side of
my
garage (17m from the pavement) and asked if I wanted rid of them. I
think
you can get a fiver each in bulk, I know someone pays £2 each to a local
garage to take dead ones from there, and presumably he makes a profit.
I've arranged to borrow a pickup to deliver to him, and there's a
hamfest the Sunday before that where I can just give some of the
lighter
stuff to any vendor who might want to sell it and keep what little he
gets money.
(One year I had my own "booth" (tarp) for two days at the Gaithersburg
hamfest, and I did pretty well. Over night, I just left evefrything
there, with prices marked and a couple things were sold, with the money
put under the tarp. Nothing expensive.
I guess IIUC UPS would wrap things for shipping if I sold on ebay, but
I'm not ready for that yet.
Has to be a fair price to bother with that. Ebay take 10%,
then you pay shipping.
Or the buyer does.
Silly way of looking at it.
Yours is.
When I buy I look at the whole price. Item + postage, or item + fuel for
me to drive there.
So does everyone else with a clue.
So you admit I'm correct.
If something is worth £10 to Mr Smith, but it costs £8 to get it to him,
you can only extract £2 from Mr Smith.
Silly way of looking at it.
No it isn't. If you have an item you're clearing out and are thinking of flogging it on Ebay, and it weighs a lot, you can only make the value minus the postage.
If it's not going to make a profit, put it on freecycle,
The local facebook buy swap sell groups work much better.
Maybe they do over there, but here Gumtree and Freecycle work best.
Bull****.
You've never tried it here. There aren't enough people using Facebook, and it's ****ing disorganised. On Gumtree, things are in categories, you can search for things, you can set up email alerts for when someone sells something you're looking for.
I went on a Facebook group and it had about 20 times less stuff. I put a
cooker on Gumtree and was phoned in 2 minutes.
The technical term for that is 'pathetically inadequate sample'
It's a huge sample wen you look at what everyone is selling on Gumtree in the whole country, compared to FB.
there will be someone who wants to play with old stuff,
Depends on what it is. No one ever
wants the old CRT tvs or monitors.
People with enough space that just want a crappy screen for a Linux server
do.
There are far fewer
It's "less". Do you have a separate word for more dependant on countability?
of those than there are old CRT tvs or monitors.
But the CRTs have mostly died, so there's a lot less available.