On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 11:38 -0500, dvcorbin at optonline.net wrote: I've tried that one here and it just doesn't work unfortunately. The people in the individual stores are willing enough - plus they often understand that items might be historically significant, rare etc. Problem is that they still have to play by the rules of the organisation that they work for, which is worried about being sued if someone electrocutes themselves on something sold by their organisation (sadly, "sold as seen" doesn't seem to carry any weight in this country any more). Hence all they can do is recommend that people take electrical items to the local tip, or try and sell them privately through the local paper (which luckily *is* still legal here :-) There is still one goodwill-type place in the nearby city that can accept electrical goods apparently; I assume they send them all off for PAT testing and then apply an appropriate markup to them before selling them. Unfortunately going to that particular store is too much of a detour for me to justify, and it's rare I'll need to head into the city for anything else. So my experience has been that the individuals running the stores are willing and everything, but simply unable to bend the rules set out by those up top somewhere (who in turn are probably following some rules set by the Government - or even further afield within the EU). It's a shame if it means historically interesting / important items get junked (whether they happen to be computers or not!) cheers Jules