Your Dream Find While Scrapping?

**Mechanic688** · 04-11-2013, 06:44 PM

Originally Posted by happyisthealero

that manager is stupid, one good reason would be that why would you pay people to break VHS when you should be paying them to help run your store. That my friend is just pure ignorance, if they can't sell it and you can, "we should break them" Yea that makes sense, lol.

That goes on more often than you can imagine. I know of a non-profit that does it. It comes out of their donation bin and if they cannot use/sell it in their little storefront then it gets busted and thrown into the dumpster.

**ggariepy** · 04-11-2013, 07:54 PM

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

That goes on more often than you can imagine. I know of a non-profit that does it. It comes out of their donation bin and if they cannot use/sell it in their little storefront then it gets busted and thrown into the dumpster.

I'm sure that in the case of the Blockbuster, there was probably some deal that forbade them from destroying the local market for the movies by dumping them in the dumpster intact. Some assistant manager probably was lazy figuring that nobody would ever look in the dumpster. Then I came along.

Same thing happens with softcover books and magazines. Check out the dumpster behind a bookstore on the right night and you will find stacks of unsold periodicals. They will have their covers torn off or mutilated. It's done to protect the market for the merchandise; after all, if word gets out that all you have to do to get a free copy of Time Magazine is just wait until the next one comes out, how many would they sell?

Dumpsters are fun, my friends.

--Geoff