Valuable Lesson Learned

So i had the idea of trying to create a "little black book" of what prices to pay for electronics to actually turn a profit..turns out paying for stuff is not needed..and i dont mean stealing..I got off work early today and decided to try an experiment..i went to every cell phone store, computer store, general electronics store, and appliance store in my town..i hit the mother load..i have enough stuff from this first trip that i could sit for a week tearing things apart..and not only that but all of these places were paying someone to haul it off so that it could be "recycled", maybe I should spell that "scrapped for a profit"..all of these stores were delighted that i would take their crap for free..I gave them my name and number..so soon the scrap will be rolling in.

Cool! I'll try going to every store like that in my town I hope it won't be a wasted ten minutes ; )

Originally Posted by Bear

Cool! I'll try going to every store like that in my town I hope it won't be a wasted ten minutes ; )

Must be a pretty big town if it will only take 10 minutes.

Congrads on your score. Nothing is better than free stuff.

That is true to some extent..but for instance one sole proprietor computer store i stopped into said wow if only you had shown up five minutes earlier..apparently he had just paid to have his junk hauled off..it took the guy well over a half hour to move all of the stuff out to his truck..the owner said he had stacks and stacks of monitors, towers, and laptops..according to him this is about a two week accumulation..soooo i suppose time will tell..i also scored huge at a phone store..(something like 35 or 40 phones)..he said this was just a months accumulation..i live in a mid size town..and im also an electrical engineering student..hopefully it will continue to rain..but even if it does start to dry up i can still go the auction/garage sale route..and i also advertise on craigslist..keeping my fingers crossed..And if it all goes south I still have a full time job lol..just doing this as a hobby.

Honesty is the only way to go..the store owner didnt even know the guys name..didnt have a number for him or anything..I hate to cut someones throat..but seriously..charging someone to scrap is just getting greedy..and in my experience when you do that you lose..the store owner said Im his man..I told him what i intend to do with it and what the other guy does with it..he was a bit bothered that he was paying him..so hopefully Ill be the owners go to guy..even if the other person starts to pay..the owner is also going to give the person my number..Id love to talk with him for a few minutes.."this town ain't big enough for the both of us"..maybe we can strike a deal so we arent stepping on one anothers toes..