Electric goods in the rubbish

[Neo-Rio]

This really ticks me off....
Why is it that EVERY TIME there is something decent to salvage from the rubbish, that it is either RAINING or I am in a rush and have no time to get it and take it home?

I saw a Pentium II system with monitor in the garbage as I was hurrying to work, and it was RAINING all over it! I could have salvaged it, cause I really need a PC at the moment - but the weather..... ARRGH!
When I come back... it's GONE!

The only time I got lucky with the garbage is when I picked up two big working stereo speakers.

Who has had good rubbish finds out there?

[Taro Toporific]

This really ticks me off....
Why is it that EVERY TIME there is something decent to salvage from the rubbish, that it is either RAINING or I am in a rush ...

Computers, TVs, etc can stand a lot of rain. The rejects of Elephants' Graveyard at my company, Maybe-the-Largest Inc, is moved outside once a year for pickup. I have snagged notebook computers several days after a typhoon which no problems.

Who has had good rubbish finds out there?

For free...I got the ENTIRE contents of 3-bedroom Homat condo when a FG director was canned: 8-piece Italian leather sofa set, dining table for 12 with dinner service, Benz with expired shaken, etc. It took me only 2 weeks to sell the extra stuff I couldn't use.

Another time, a lady shacho got married and the new couple was given a newly decorated house as a wedding gift. She gave me her 2-DK to sublet for 30,000yen/m inside the Yamamote line. The place was tastefully furnished with nothing in it older than 2 years...4-poster queen-size bed, tansu, Mac computers, color laser printer, big screen TV, Boise stereo, etc.

Call me "el Cheapo"

[GomiGirl]

Well as a GomiGirl, I can say that I have had heaps of luck in the trash over the years.

Big screen TV, small bar fridge, vacuum cleaners, rice cookers, gas stoves, rugs etc etc. Where I live has a room for gomi so it all stays nice and dry. And it seems that people travel for miles to dump stuff there so the pickings are good.

My friend in Nagoya got all of her futons etc and after a quick visit to the dry cleaners, no problems.

But after a while people tend to just give stuff to me when they leave town etc so I haven't needed to raid the gomi for ages. Plus it is nice to "upgrade" to a new store bought fridge and other household items and give the old gomi away to new arrivals.

[Taro Toporific]

...Plus it is nice to "upgrade" to a new store bought fridge and other household items and give the old gomi away to new arrivals.

Sad to sad most my gomi days are over too: I learned my lesson the hard way...twice...when my electric bill dropped 35-45% when I upgraded state-of-art fridge and aircon.

However, I shipped that "gomi " 300-series Benz with an expired shaken to the States it still drives like new.

[were_spider]

However, I shipped that "gomi " 300-series Benz with an expired shaken to the States it still drives like new.

Cool story... how much was shipping? to west or east coast?

Phil

[Taro Toporific]

However, I shipped that "gomi " 300-series Benz with an expired shaken to the States it still drives like new.

Cool story... how much was shipping? to west or east coast?

Shipping from Japan to Long Beach, Calif was expensive. The cheapest possible price I could find was $1,200 as part of a 20 gomi car shipment of a friend in the business. The retail price will be $2,000+. FG member, Steve Bitterman, says he was in this business] "transporting my car to japan..???[/url]

---Taro, the FG Forum's resident motorhead