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[kuma]

Joem , your tenacity is to be desired , 8)
Keep up the good work chief!
With kind regards ,
Chris

 

[skippy]

Joe, do you have to remove the seats every time you do that or does your van have seats that fold down to the floor level? I've got a minivan, and my solution is to leave the seats out, but that might not be an option for you with a family and all.

Anecdotally, I once took 2300 lbs of tie plates to the scrap yard in my minivan, and it never rode quite as high again after that :lol:

 

[joem]

Joe, do you have to remove the seats every time you do that or does your van have seats that fold down to the floor level? I've got a minivan, and my solution is to leave the seats out, but that might not be an option for you with a family and all.

Anecdotally, I once took 2300 lbs of tie plates to the scrap yard in my minivan, and it never rode quite as high again after that :lol:

Yeah seats have to come out when I need to get a load, and man are they heavy.
but the good part is that I had a windstar (bigger & more interior space) but a pain on gas.
I bought this KIA amazing enough it's twice the weight (4800 pounds) but uses half the gas.

 

[jimdoc]

Looks like you will need a warehouse.

Jim

 

[joem]

I just signed up a TV repair outlet. I went and talked to him at lunch and will pick up about a van load of tvs, vcrs, dvd palyer, flat screens and a bunch of junk (his words) computer boards after 4 pm this afternoon.

I said it before and I will say it again...
Just walk in and talk to the person in charge.
Tell them you offer a free service to remove scrap electronics.

 

[MMFJ]

Just walk in and talk to the person in charge.
Tell them you offer a free service to remove scrap electronics.

I've told my son a million times - "If you don't ask, the answer is always NO!" - but, if you DO ask........ (see above - and reference it time and time [and time] again!)

For those just starting out, look at this example and learn at least one thing - keep asking around. It doesn't take long and you can work it in between your other job (for now), at lunchtime, during a break or even on your day(s) off (what else are you going to do - watch a football game or something??? - no blasting, please! I say this because it is a proven fact that, statistically, we all have 24 hrs in each of our days. The difference in success and failure is how you chose to use them!

Congrats, joem on your continuing success!

 

[joem]

I just signed up a TV repair outlet. I went and talked to him at lunch and will pick up about a van load of tvs, vcrs, dvd palyer, flat screens and a bunch of junk (his words) computer boards after 4 pm this afternoon.

I said it before and I will say it again...
Just walk in and talk to the person in charge.
Tell them you offer a free service to remove scrap electronics.

Here is a picture of part od what he had ready for me to pick up.he has about 2000 square feet of storage and it is packed in well. He is going to do a clean up and give me all the unwanted items. I already used one of the new DVD/VCR combos to replace my own broken one ( I have two he gave me two still packaged in the box an new dvd and blueray players). One agreement with him though, I can not re-sell anything because he is a registered repair and reseller for brand names, But no worries I can always use new electronics myself.

 

[bklopsy]

Joem

You are a very generous guy. Thank you so much for the 5 PDF files.

If you ever need assistance down in my neck of the woods, don't hesitate!

Thanks

Brooks

 

[joem]

Here is my first week of sept load of 48 towers (ish) see pic
Just returned from the scrap yard with kids ( showing them cool car shredder) and returned with $103 from trimmed wires.
Update: the last two weeks of August bringing any electronics scrap to my recycler, 3000 pounds, $240.
$370 shredded steel. $87 Other metals, and I am still storing Motherboards, Cards, CPU, Memory, and all gold plated trimmed ends.
Note to Newbies: I do this only a few hours 4 days a week using my minivan ( see above pictures)

 

[necromancer]

where did your site go joem ??

http://www.junkescrap.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi

 

[joem]

where did your site go joem ??

http://www.junkescrap.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi

back up, server glich

 

[milkandpie]

For those people you do ask and get a "no", a "no" means you have not provided the person right information to say yes.

 

[joem]

For those people you do ask and get a "no", a "no" means you have not provided the person right information to say yes.

You have not hit the what's in it for me nerve.
be it money, free labour, compassion ( for a person or environment) , or savings (a service you offer for free they paid for in the past)

 

[andrew john]

i have read this hole thread lol. I will have to start putting the adds out everywere .
Im not that good at writing thow to be honest. Probably heaps of spelling mistakes in this post :lol:

Cant get any were if you dont try ae.

thanks all

 

[joem]

hello all
Been quite busy. I am building my e-waste scrap route because winter here does not have a lot of scrap metal readily available at the curb. I just added a laptop repair owner who owns three outlets across the city. Just today he filled half my van. Also just at this 1 location he gave me 10 non working laptops. I can get $10 each for them. I offered him pick up as a free service, absolutely no charge, and he took it because he used to pay for e-waste pick up.
keep at it.

 

[nickvc]

Well done Joem you seem to be having well deserved success. Your tenacity and innovative marketing I'm sure contribute greatly to your success, effort in equals profits out!
For those that complain they can't find e scrap read this thread and learn to think outside of what is the norm.

 

[joem]

Here is a come back and haunt you story with collecting ewaste.
One of my computer store collection points has a customer come in to the store to get his tower fixed. The techs at the store explain why his machine is so slow in todays high speed world. Well he buys a refurbish laptop and agrees to send his old machine to recycle (me). He later comes back into the store complaining he bought a refurbished machine without knowing it and wants his old machine back. Now this store is well known and honest and respected. There is no doubts there. So they explain the old machine is probably shredded by now ( which I can say it is) and so they actually replace the refurbished laptop with a brand new tower and move all his files for free. He then comes back later still wanting his long gone machine, screams about dishonesty and makes a complaint to the BBB. SO what I've learned about all this is;
I am making a generic release form the store customer signs to agree to have the old machine recycled.
Live and learn. Cover your a**
I will post when complete so anyone can use it.

 

[Claudie]

I suppose those people are everywhere. The "cover your ***" paper is probably a good thing to get from people who drop things off. I would be interested in seeing what you come up with.

 

[joem]

here is a form I created in PDF, Please take a look and advise of any things that should be added.

 

[Claudie]

I am not an attorney but I think I would lose the word "Customer" .

Also I am thinking "household hazardous waste" instead of "house hold hazard waste"

I also think I would change the last initialed paragraph about donating computers, what if we want to sell them?

These are just some thoughts, get everyone else's thoughts too and we can get this refined into a well written legal document. It is looking pretty good so far.