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What happens to the dumpster dive equipment?
msknight:
Just watched the 10 years of dumpster diving and I was wondering what happens to all that equipment. Is it sold, given to good causes... it has to go somewhere or else Dave would have drowned in equipment years ago!
.RC.:
I think he owns a time and relative dimension in space storage cupboard
EPAIII:
My question is, HOW DO YOU FIND THOSE DUMPSTERS? I have never seen equipment like that in a dumpster.
Gyro:
I think it's a dumpster in less than the literal sense.
Stray Electron:
I can't speak for Dave but I've picked up a LOT of excess equipment over the years and most of what I didn't want to keep ended up on Ebay. That paid for my hobbies and then some. There were a few people that were always looking for things like DEC computer parts and after a while I started selling the DEC stuff directly to them. I never dumpster dived as such but I started searching out companies that got the surplus from the universities, NASA and large USG contractors and I made friends with the owners and they let me go through the stuff that they otherwise would have stripped for the precious metals or just sold as mixed scrap. I bought anything that I was interested in and anything that looked like something that someone else might want.
From the looks of most of the electronic stuff on E-Greed I would say that most of it came from Dumpster Divers and they have have no clue what it is.
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