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This kid is in my area, lying about computer recycling. He's trying to lie to people saying he is messing with them for a school project. I emailed him and he said he is recycling them for money. Now I find that unhonest, and unprofessional. He shouldn't be lying to try and get inventory..
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I've seen similar adds, but they want the people to bring the computers to them.
Kochy
I see does all the time, i flag it ,but most of the time flagging it, does not work.
I have seen this too many times. One poster even goes on to say that he does it for charity and does not make money or resell your stuff like eeveryone one else does.Quote:
Originally Posted by brandon
I saw a very similar one recently. Kid wanting to "learn about computers". He should have been smart enough to use a different phone number than the one on all the scrap metal wanted ads that he's posted.
please don't think bad of me because I did this once.i always advertise that I buy e-scrap. 1 time I decided hey lets put a free add up . wanted old outdated broken computers and laptops. I forget what I told people I did with them .but I did this once and ill tell I got over 20 pick ups that week .no **** .prolly the entire week at lease 25 computers 10 laptops and a few totes of misc parts.i got more inventory asking for it for free then I did offering to buy it lol .so what does that tell you.now I think this is ethically wrong . but this is business my main job is to make money
SMe being 17 and still in school pursuing an electronics degree i could post something like that. But i wont cause I know everything there is to know about computer hardware and seeing as i built a 1000 dollar gaming rig. And its pretty hard to see how a computer works just by looking inside. You could go on google and learn the binary and ttl logic controllers that make it work.
The kid straight up told me hes recycling them for money. Hes trying to make people feel good by making them think their junk is going to the education when really its going in his pocket...
That just makes me mad that hes doing that especially in my area.
I don't have a problem with somebody asking for something for free. It's the lying about what you're doing that is not cool in my opinion. Different strokes for different folks, though.
The kid sent me another email saying that it will all be recycled at the scrap yard. Where they buy only motherboards for a buck a pound..... He's not even doingf it right..
Maybe try working out a deal with him on them. Tell him you'll buy them for double or whatever if he takes down the BS ads about needing them for schoolQuote:
Originally Posted by Kochy
Offer to buy them from him for $1.50 - $2.00 a pound.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kochy
That sounds like the plan to me...:))Quote:
Originally Posted by brandon
Good idea lol!
Just be careful and not pay him that on the colored boards, let him take then to the scrap yard.
you mean the blue and red ones right?
btw lol I pay 2.00 per lb for colored boards:)
Want me to add fuel to the fire? I thought ya might.
I picked up a laptop on a clean-out, it looked as if it had had it.. I looked on CL thinking someone may want it anyway- and maybe they could repair it. I don't have the ad as it stood but it went something like this:
"Looking for a Laptop.. I'm an older gentleman and just need something that works or may need some work.. Just looking for something simple and I can't afford very much to spend blah blah blah"
I call him and tell him what I have.. he tells me he will be in my area on such and such a day. The Older Gentleman.. Pulls up in a BMW and dressed to the hilt! I knew I had been had.. But as I am a man of my word- I gave him the **** laptop for free as I promised. He knew I knew the jig was up and he offered me $ for it- I took the high road and said "Nope.. that's fine.. I offered it to you for free thinking you were in need.. but It appears you are fixing and flipping.. so go ahead and take it.. and oh.. have a nice day!"
HAHAHA What a piece of s__t
This kid might be one of us. By the way he is describing buyers on here.
People will lie, cheat and steal. We have to live with it. Obsessing over it will just cause undue stress.
Yes it can get to me as well, but I try not to let it happen.
I advertise that I do pick ups for free and I usually get items for free all the time on CL why do you think he is lying????
and who cares he wants to make money, maybe you should tell him to be honest instead, you might get a better response from him
I posted one about will pick up free computers, monitors laptops and such tv's and I posted that i would pick them up or meet somewhere safe, this woman graciously sent me an e mail and I picked up the lap top at sears parking lot, safe for her safe for me. my problem is and im working on reading this forum site, that in my state/area no one buys E-waste, graded boards and such. theres always E bay or shipping bulk when I get a decent amount. but as stated above, Just be HONEST.
I see plenty of ads like that on CL. Most have all kinds of lame BS reasons why they want them, but I think 90% of them are in it for the money (to scrap or fix and sell). My ad just states that I buy computers and parts for x amount, never state in the ad what I do with them. If they ask, I tell them the truth (mostly scrapping and a some re-sale). One seller a few weeks ago commented that he liked my ad as it was straight to the point, and no BS.
I think it's just one of those situations where you need to sit back and say "Karma will get them".
I see stuff like that here as well. And it's always so obvious. I don't even flag them. Why? Because it's getting recycled. I'm not greedy enough to hold a personal vendetta against them. I just chuckle to myself, knowing that that fella/gal has to sleep at night.
just keep flagging his posts out thats what everyone does on CL
I agree. Just say what you're really going to do with the scrap and people will usually repond well to it. Computer Recycling
I advertise mine as Repurposed, Reused or Recycled when I advertise for them.
If they are good enough to reuse, I go through them and offer them for nothing to people that need them. I have given a few of them to day cares, people with disabilities, and other places where they will get used. I do get a little upset when people advertise like that and I give them a computer someone actually could have needed or really used and all they are doing is scrapping them. I do put several hours of my time and resources into them getting the ready this means complete cleanings, factory resets, putting suitable software in them for end user, etc.
I do end up recycling alot of them as they simply cant hack it with massively outdated hardware. But in the process I also do take parts out of scrap towers and bring them to use repairing towers that are worth the time to try to repair.
I personally make a point of just linking to and telling people what those adds are. Toss them under proverbial bus. I feel it is more effective to do this than flag them so they get put right back up. Bad press tends to last longer and spread faster than good. I figure Karma will get to them sooner or later.
I can see where that scam works since 48% of us are still givers who will willingly give to the 51% takers thinking they are good honest hard working folks. We were raised in a country of hard working people who cared for their fellow man. We are 48% because we are either giving up and joining the takers or, dieing off. Because our ranks are thinning, there soon will be a tipping point. When that point comes the hard working givers will know how to survive, the takers won,t and, there will be nothing left for us to give. They will not survive, they never learned how to. just my .02