xdaniel Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Have any of you ever done or are doing dumpster diving, scavenging roadside bulky waste, things like that? It's incredible what some people throw away, ex. with consumer electronics, often enough just because it's old! For example, back when I was a kid and collection of bulky waste (so furniture, TVs, etc) still followed a specific schedule for the year - as opposed to today where you call in and arrange a date for collection -, I did get things like older PCs, monitors or printers from there. My first printer, for example, a HP Deskjet 500 which has since found its way back to the dump so to speak, I got from the trash near our home - used it for some five or so more years after finding it. Nowadays I personally don't actively do this anymore, but I still get some things a friend of mine "rescues" from a recycling center, where they apparently don't mind too much if you take one or two items with you when you throw away something else. The IBM ThinkPad I got about a week ago came from there, although I don't yet have a proper power supply for it (that's what tomorrow's flea market is gonna be for), my JVC AV receiver - amp, FM/AM tuner, AV switch - I also got from there via him, as well as a bunch of smaller stuff - ex. a laptop HDD from a dead 486, the mainboard and CPU I since upgraded my mom's PC with. He also more or less constantly finds consoles there! He's got like 4 Atari 2600 now, a Mega Drive 2, a GameCube (with memory card and a copy of FIFA 06 in the drive!) and even a Xbox 360 Elite that had RRoD'ed and that we fixed with some probably not too safe voodoo. And yes, I am a bit envious of that, especially the X360's HDD (my 20GB vs his 120GB). There's usually no PSUs or cables with them, tho, besides for two of the 2600s IIRC. But again, that's what flea markets are for, because you can find at least the PSUs for pretty much everything there, consoles prior to this generation, laptops of all ages, cellphones, camcorders, everything! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Dayumn. It reminds me of these GameStop dumpster diving videos I see on YouTube, where people salvage perfectly good things GameStop throws out back(granted they didn't smash them, too). I think they do it because the stuff is old, won't sell, or whatever; still, even though I love GameStop, I always thought of it as a waste. I once went GameStop dumpster diving, though... I had a hard time finding their dumpster mixed in with the other store's dumpsters. I even got locked in a small confined area with a dumpster after accidentally closing a door behind me. Luckily I got out before anyone came alone. >.> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason777 Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 I actually went with a friend to do go dumpster diving today We found a couple of XBOX 360 games... all were shitty sports games. My friend decided to take home Madden '09. To our surprise, it worked. On a lesser note, we did find a bunch of giftcards and reward cards. I serously doubted there was any money or value to them so I threw them back in. At Best Buy, we found a bunch of broken phones, including: iPhone 3G HTC Evo Samsung Galaxy S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_link-77 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I dumpster dived this from EBGames / Gamestop Cost me 50 bucks worth of repairs and paint. Now i'm trying to sell it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 For how much, might I ask? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_link-77 Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 600 obo I gotta get rid of it I almost took 300 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Damn. That's pretty steep for me, so I sadly cannot do this. D: I hope some lucky bastard buys that amazing find off of you eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_link-77 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Man I really wish I didn't have to sell it but I'm building a PacMan cocktail table and my fiancé says that If I keep the Xbox stand then I can't take the pax man table to the new house and my pacman table is pretty friggin cool and I built it soooo it was a hard desicion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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