1 Aug
2012
1 Aug
'12
12:48 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Tothwolf <tothwolf at concentric.net> wrote:
On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Steven Hirsch wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Tothwolf wrote:
<snip>
Goodwill does the same thing now too. If it even
remotely looks like a
computer, or computer-related device, and it won't run Windows 7, Goodwill
scraps it.
Not all goodwills do. Here in Orange county they have by default become
the only true computer parts store in the area.
They still seem to only have an XP license, and no signs of windows 7.
Everything gets a load of XP though.
They have pretty much gotten rid of the "save that for charlie" practices,
so when you walk thru the door, you pretty much have the same chances as
the next guy to score something.
A number of the recycler or rebuild guys have a local guy (it's crass, but
this is in Santa Ana, and most guys are Mexican day laborers) with a cell
phone calling with what comes out, and they literally jump all the stuff
they can recognize.
That is about the only gaming of the system I have seen.
the orange county site sells a lot of equipment online with their own sale
site. Much of the scrap from their own server operations as well as I
suspect a lot of server donations go into their own site.
http://www.shopgoodwill.com/listings/listbycat.asp?catid=7
Jim