[arachne] Re: Used computers down under

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Sam;
 I just received lately two different Pentium II 700Mhz
computers from two different people. One has a 20Gig drive
and 64M RAM, and the other a 30Gig drive, 128M RAM, they
were going to thro away, because no one would take such
obsolecence on trade. I now have nine computers that were
just going to go in the trash, and about a dozen monitors,
plus keyboards, mice, 56k modems and speakers. The kid that
lives next door to my Mother got a year or two old 21inch
monitor that was on the curb waiting for the garbageman.
The city 20 miles from here, has now setup large bins,
labeled monitors, computers, stereos, et.al. because it is
now illegal to keep throwing such things in the landfills.
My ThinkPad laptop, 64M RAM, 2Gig drive was a throwaway
also. Maybe there's money to be made in Australia! I
wonder what shipping would cost? Hmmm!
Rob:

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On Wed, 5 May 2004, Sam Ewalt wrote:

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> On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:56:26 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:
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> > Apart from the fact that the money is already gone on the phone
> > bill, and I can't spend it twice, I have asked around, looked
> > around, and done just about everything I can think of, and the
> > best prices for s/h comps are all in the hundreds of $.
>
> > Anything that would be cheaper in the commercial market seems to
> > be scrapped rather than resold, probably to protect their sales
> > of newer and higher priced hardware.
>
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> Could it really be that different in Australia? Here in the USA
> we are swiming in cheap used computers. They haul truckloads of
> stuff to the dump everyday.
>
> Every small town in Michigan where I live has at least one small
> businessman making a living building and servicing systems for the
> locals. My guy here in Croswell has a shelf with trade-ins and
> odds and ends priced around $100 to  $150 or less. (the prices
> asked on this shelf of old computers have drifted downward over the
> years)
>
> Currently he has a Pentium II 300 with 64 megs, 7.5 gig hd and a
> 56k modem for $150. And that's overpriced! He'll dicker and bargain
> and probably let it go for a hundred and be happy to get something
> for it.
>
> A larger, more commercial shop wouldn't bother with this sort of
> "obsolete" hardware at all. They just throw it out because it's not
> worth the hassle.
>
> So you ought to be able to find something!
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> Sam Ewalt
> Croswell, Michigan, USA
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