[LINK] 1.6m computers into landfill, 1.8 into storage

[Adam Todd]

One of the Current Affair shows did a story on this very type of web site.

You list the things you want to get rid of, and you list things you want, 
and people "exchange" goods.  No money.  Just exchange goods.

Problem was, when I went to the site, it was a massive advertising scam for 
not only a whole pile of "Work from Home" and weight loss things, but I'd 
be damned if I could find the "recycling" section!


At 10:39 PM 12/11/2006, Kim Holburn wrote:
>Hey there's a killer web app:
>
>A sort of reverse ebay where you auction to find the cheapest dump, +
>freight!!!!
>
>Actually on thinking about it getting someone to pay to take it off
>your hands would be better and that's what ebay is about.  Combine
>reverse ebay with ebay and you'd have a winner.
>
>On 2006/Nov/12, at 10:09 PM, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>
>>It would almost be cheaper for you to travel down here and pay our
>>tip fees.
>>
>>Adam Todd wrote:
>>>At 05:34 PM 12/11/2006, Kim Holburn wrote:
>>>>Gee, I took a really old Computer and a Mac SE/30 to the tip
>>>>yesterday (Aussie Junk at Mitchell in Canberra) and I had to pay $15
>>>>for the "cpu" and $20 for the "monitor" - the SE/30 qualified as a
>>>>monitor.
>>>Yep the local tip wants to charge me $99 per boot.
>>>>I'd reckon it'd be a lot cheaper to put them in your wheelie bin one
>>>>by one than to take them to the dump at the moment.
>>>Yep, that's what I've been doing for months.  Bit by bit,
>>>returning everything to whence it came.
>
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