Who here does the Best Buy swap on monitors?

[silversaddle1]

Anybody do this? We do, with great results!

If you don't know what I'm talking about, here's the skinny.

If you don't want to hassle with trying to recycle those CRT's (I hate CRTS!), take them to your local Best Buy. They will charge you $10.00 per monitor to recycle it for you. Then, For every monitor you pay to recycle, Best Buy will give you a $10.00 gift card. So say you get paid by your customer to recycle their monitors. We charge 10 buck per monitor. We then haul them to Best Buy and recycle them. We walk out of there with no monitors and $$$$ to spend however we see fit! So far we have a new I-Pad, Tom-Tom, and are now working on a new Mac laptop!

The only drawback is that they will only take 3 monitors per person, per household, per day, so they say. It's not true. We just dropped off 32 at one store, all at the same time. Trick is to talk to a manager and bring them in right before their truck arrives to haul them away. Some stores are limited on storage space.

Just a little tip from a seasoned pro!

[messymessy]

Thanks for the tip. Nice to see you back on the forum.

[silversaddle1]

Hey thanks, it's good to be back!

We have been busy shutting down three data centers and scrapping all the equipment.

Hard to surf the net when you have 50,000 pounds of networking/data equipment sitting on your shop floor, waiting to be cleaned!

Good times!

[OldPeddler]

Do they take old TVs ?

[ilyaz]

Great tip, but you might not want to hold on to them for too long, in case they follow Circuit City:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/28/technology/thebuzz/index.htm

[silversaddle1]

Great tip, but you might not want to hold on to them for too long, in case they follow Circuit City:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/28/technology/thebuzz/index.htm

Correct. We take them in as we get them. We don't sit on them.

[Mossy]

"Pay $10, get $10 gift cert". Profit?

[cyberdan]

"Pay $10, get $10 gift cert". Profit?

Thats what I was thinking. My local dumpster takes them for free (after midnight ) but doesn't give gift cards.

[hobo finds]

Anybody do this? We do, with great results!

If you don't know what I'm talking about, here's the skinny.

If you don't want to hassle with trying to recycle those CRT's (I hate CRTS!), take them to your local Best Buy. They will charge you $10.00 per monitor to recycle it for you. Then, For every monitor you pay to recycle, Best Buy will give you a $10.00 gift card. So say you get paid by your customer to recycle their monitors. We charge 10 buck per monitor. We then haul them to Best Buy and recycle them. We walk out of there with no monitors and $$$$ to spend however we see fit! So far we have a new I-Pad, Tom-Tom, and are now working on a new Mac laptop!

The only drawback is that they will only take 3 monitors per person, per household, per day, so they say. It's not true. We just dropped off 32 at one store, all at the same time. Trick is to talk to a manager and bring them in right before their truck arrives to haul them away. Some stores are limited on storage space.

Just a little tip from a seasoned pro!

He charges his clients the $10 fee!

[Mossy]

... So say you get paid by your customer to recycle their monitors. We charge 10 buck per monitor.

He charges his clients the $10 fee!

Oh-ho. My eye just bumped right over it. Thanks.

[silversaddle1]

"Pay $10, get $10 gift cert". Profit?

Thats what I was thinking. My local dumpster takes them for free (after midnight ) but doesn't give gift cards.

Well in our part of the world, it's against the law to dispose of e-waste in the landfill.