16 Jan
2009
16 Jan
'09
10:36 a.m.
There seems to be a recent trend on ebay for places
that collect
electronics for recycling to have someone who picks out the "old" items
for sale on ebay.
They have been cherry picking the incoming stuff for years. The big one around
here is Computer Recycling Center, next to Weird Stuff (who is in the same biz).
Most modern PC stuff they get goes to schools, they eBay the stuff they can get
money from, and put the dregs up for sale on Saturday mornings. Feeding frenzy
at 9:00 AM when they open. I wander by every once and a while to pick up cheap
PCI cards, or the odd bit of old software no one else wants.
Most of the store front junk stores around here disappeared as manufacturing left
the valley, and the bottom feeders from bankruptcies go directly to eBay now with
no retail presence.
16 Jan
16 Jan
4:13 p.m.
Oh the good ol' days of driving over to San Jose and rummaging through
the surplus stores. RA electronics, Weird Stuff, Action Computers, and
whatever the two off Lawrence were. One across from Fry's and the other
up a ways towards 280. I can't believe I don't remember the names
anymore Weird Stuff and Action Computers were always the over priced
surplus stores I avoided back then. Now they are all that's left.
Probably because they could still afford to pay rent when the boom happened.
I admit to selling half the stuff I found back then but, it was on this
thing called the Usenet you really weren't supposed to be selling things
on.
So many 'e-recycers' now. Basically everyone with a pick-up truck is
calling themselves electronic recyclers now and posting flyers all over.
Al Kossow wrote:
There seems to
be a recent trend on ebay for places that collect
electronics for recycling to have someone who picks out the "old" items
for sale on ebay.
They have been cherry picking the incoming stuff for years. The big
one around
here is Computer Recycling Center, next to Weird Stuff (who is in the
same biz).
Most modern PC stuff they get goes to schools, they eBay the stuff
they can get
money from, and put the dregs up for sale on Saturday mornings.
Feeding frenzy
at 9:00 AM when they open. I wander by every once and a while to pick
up cheap
PCI cards, or the odd bit of old software no one else wants.
Most of the store front junk stores around here disappeared as
manufacturing left
the valley, and the bottom feeders from bankruptcies go directly to
eBay now with
no retail presence.
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