Support what you believe in.

I am not a moderator or a anything like that.

I just wanted to take a second to speak to the people who roll through here vacuuming up information and advice. That is what this forum is for!

Please consider joining the forum. When you believe in something, be it and organization or group, it is worth your money to support it. Membership here is very inexpensive and affordable. I live in the same broke world you do. I AM NOT RICH by anyone's calculations, but I am far better off for having been a member here.

Let me share a couple things with you. I drove out to Ohio a couple times and met a guy from there named Mario. He shared information that has made me a better ewaste scrapper and it was a wonderful experience meeting him. Seeing how his business works was nothing short of AMAZING as well as educational. Then there was simply having met just a good person. I will be seeing him again. I met a fellow up north of me named Donnie. He is a great guy and a small ewaste scrapper. We spent the better part of a day visiting and I was able to pass some things along to him I did not have time to work with. I believe we were both better for it. I met another guy that was looking to get into ewaste on the west side of the state. I shared with him about my ewaste operation and the he shared with me about metal recycling. He totally changed how I recycle my metal and cut it up. I share this site with a guy that was doing ewaste not even 10 miles from me. Through that we have become very good friends.

Some of what I have learned here is what I was doing that was taking me in the totally wrong direction. Because of the mistakes some others made, I was not forced to go through the same thing.

This forum has been a life changing resource for me.

I would urge you to become a member if you have not done so yet. Running this type of site is not cheap! Believe me when I tell you that your membership is important to me as a fellow member. I want this site up and running for a long time to come. I would like for my Grandkids to be able to come here for information when I step back and let them run things.

Please support the things you believe in. I, as a simple member will be grateful as will many other members I am sure.

Somehow they have managed to keep this affordable. Could you imagine what a book would cost with this amount of information in it?

Please support the forum, we need you as much as you need us.

This is just my 2 cents.

Thank You Danny.

Originally Posted by msearl3244

I am not a moderator or a anything like that.

I just wanted to take a second to speak to the people who roll through here vacuuming up information and advice. That is what this forum is for!

Please consider joining the forum. When you believe in something, be it and organization or group, it is worth your money to support it. Membership here is very inexpensive and affordable. I live in the same broke world you do. I AM NOT RICH by anyone's calculations, but I am far better off for having been a member here.

Let me share a couple things with you. I drove out to Ohio a couple times and met a guy from there named Mario. He shared information that has made me a better ewaste scrapper and it was a wonderful experience meeting him. Seeing how his business works was nothing short of AMAZING as well as educational. Then there was simply having met just a good person. I will be seeing him again. I met a fellow up north of me named Donnie. He is a great guy and a small ewaste scrapper. We spent the better part of a day visiting and I was able to pass some things along to him I did not have time to work with. I believe we were both better for it. I met another guy that was looking to get into ewaste on the west side of the state. I shared with him about my ewaste operation and the he shared with me about metal recycling. He totally changed how I recycle my metal and cut it up. I share this site with a guy that was doing ewaste not even 10 miles from me. Through that we have become very good friends.

Some of what I have learned here is what I was doing that was taking me in the totally wrong direction. Because of the mistakes some others made, I was not forced to go through the same thing.

This forum has been a life changing resource for me.

I would urge you to become a member if you have not done so yet. Running this type of site is not cheap! Believe me when I tell you that your membership is important to me as a fellow member. I want this site up and running for a long time to come. I would like for my Grandkids to be able to come here for information when I step back and let them run things.

Please support the things you believe in. I, as a simple member will be grateful as will many other members I am sure.

Somehow they have managed to keep this affordable. Could you imagine what a book would cost with this amount of information in it?

Please support the forum, we need you as much as you need us.

This is just my 2 cents.

I strongly agree with you and that's why I became a member. And this is why I get annoyed with guys who come on the forum and contribute pure horse manure.

If more people privately supported the collection, storage and access of information, it would put at least some of the power back in the hands of "the people" after all, knowledge is power.

But this forum, and a few others I belong to, in their respective fields are incredibly important for people who not only wish to know, but are willing to put forth the effort, use this information, and either create a solid fall back plan, or a viable business. There is one thing I have noticed that is not really talked about on this forum, it's unemployment. And I believe this is because the people of this forum have created their own employment, or supplemental income, utilizing the information they have posted, or have read here.

I have said this before, but it's proper to say yet again in this thread. I believe this forum is the most important repository of information pertaining to this particular industry, anywhere in the world, the internet or in any existing library or college.

This is why I became a member.

And while I'm at it, I would also like to say, that this forum is one of the best administered and moderated I have ever been involved with. It takes an incredible amount of work to keep a forum of this size and scope in line and operating in the way it does. For that reason alone I would have become a member.

Just my two cents!

Scott

Originally Posted by InsertUserNameHere

I paid for the membership on this forum, but don't in many other ones on other topics. People put their money where their interests are, no use badgering them. If becoming a member is worth the cash, people do it. If not, they don't.

I did not think i was badgering anyone. I was just putting my own 2 cents out there. When I believe in something I tend to show my support with more than just money. I like to tell people why i believe in it. I apologize if I offend anyone, but I like my DeWalt impact driver and tell people about that also. I show my support to DeWalt with my money and my words to others about their impact driver.

By telling people they need to join the forum you are gonna offend some people, its just the way it is, i support anyone that says and stands behind what they believe in right or wrong. I am with you 100% on this one.

I have learned a ton of information and gladly share the information i have learned. Hope to keep putting informative posts here for a long time.

As a mod and member, we don't pressure anyone to become a member, everyone is welcome here right down the the casual visitor.

There are really good people also that frequent this forum, who post on a regular basis adding to the value, that have not purchased a membership. There are a few I can think of right off the top of my head I have a huge amount of respect for. But they are contributing, adding to the value, and thus the value that other people find in reading their posts who decide to donate or purchase a membership. These particular people are assets in that way, and should be afforded similar respect. For many of these people they are on a very tight budget and attempting to grow their business. I feel fairly confident that these same people would donate if they were able. So while I am in a position to be able to support this forum by purchasing a membership, I still have a grave amount of respect for those that cannot or for some other reason do not but still add value in the form of the information they share.

In my opinion, and this is strictly my own personal belief, the people I would call into question are the ones that do not contribute in the form of posting information that adds value, and do not purchase a membership but instead only take the information and use it for their own benefit and/or profit, without returning any compensation, intellectual, humorous or monetary.

On a side note, I have never ever seen any mod, nor the admin, or anyone associated with this forum in a administrative function ever ask for donations or for people to purchase a membership. I have seen members who believe as I do, that this forum is a very valuable asset go further still and suggest others should donate or buy a membership, and for those particular posts I don't see any issue unless they are demeaning those that are not in a position to donate or buy a membership but add value anyway in the form of their posts.

This is strictly what I personally believe, my humble opinion, I am not intending to insult anyone.

Scott

Originally Posted by NamVet

i have learned enough additional info and skill to make 37 bucks more, than i would have b4 i found this site. NOW, One last thing,and maybe im out of line, for saying (or suggesting) this, but perhaps we (meaning us folks regardless of income who use the site daily) should also consider a way to send a donation to this site from time to time. Or does this exist, and im unaware of it? LAST BUT NOT LEAST-- I'd like to say thanks to both msearl3244 for his post,and the founders of this site for providing both discussion and information for this old mans soul. Not to mention adding a few bucks more (I hope) to my monthly income.

First off, I also never saw anything offensive in msearls post, although I really haven't looked back at it much, I think it's a good thread.
NamVet has a point, one which most in our shoes don't much brag of, discuss, try to explain, or make excuses for. Fact is, barely a week ago I had a rare opportunity to send my admission to the Scrap Room, and went looking for a place to send it, but there wasn't one, and the window quickly closed.
Also, in an ancient thread I recall seeing a now very well known member suggesting a "support" button( this post was made before "Scrap Room" existed). I've seen this done on other forums, and those who are "mere"(haha) "supporters", are some way noted as such

dang! The sleep Admin must lose while we're having such discussions. Poor fella, hahaha ; )