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Thread ID: 136136	2014-01-23 05:45:00	Cannot stomach selling stuff for virtually nothing ...	Nomad (952)	PC World Chat

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1365883	2014-01-23 22:29:00	bin + throw + smash = problem solved its old, its junk, move on with your life. Seriously :-) Just because something old still works, dont allways make it usefull to anyone else in the modern world . If you get $10 for it on an auction site, will be more than $10 worth of your time, waiting for buyers who never turn up on agreed time & day. Loosing a whole weekend waiting around for buyers to turn up (been there, done that) or just take it all to the recyclers & give it away. They will allmost certainly just trash it. my cellphone I use for work is 10 years old. It does the job. My personal ph is a fancy new one.	1101 (13337)
1365884	2014-01-23 23:52:00	I'm going to set a base line for comfort. Cos .. if one goes in blind when does one draw the line. $1,000 phone every 12 months? Ok you may be able to sell it for $400 used so that's $600/yr for that (1) item. Computer might become $250 a lost of $950 maybe for a $1,200 box only. If one had a nice imported phone $500 phone used for 3yrs that's under $200/year, $18 ish odd a month. If one doesn't offload them but keeps them in the bottom drawer, that could be $1k per yr for the phone, another $1k for the tablet and maybe $1.2k for the computer. $3.2k per 12 months for just these 3 items. Or even those who blindly sign up for a nice cool phone, $95 contract per month for 2yrs, 1yr goes past and a new model is released, planned obselescence.	Nomad (952)
1365885	2014-01-24 00:39:00	planned obselescence. That term itself is total BS dont blame manufacturers for CONUSUMERS wanting the latest & greatest . Manufacturers are just filling a market want(not need) No one NEEDS a $1000 phone, so the whole concept of that ph being obseleted is BS. last years ph WILL do the job. Thats the consumers gluttony for shiney latest new tech driving all this.	1101 (13337)
1365886	2014-01-24 02:36:00	Yes fundamentally we can still live in 1980s style houses, old bathrooms, old kitchens, CRT TVs, 10yr old computers and still access the social media / WWW, Nokia 5110s / 3110s . Guess it is human and they know it . We don't need all these reality television with fine cooking, DIY renovation etc . We're still using EFTPOS and money, passports, bus passes . . . . :D	Nomad (952)
1365887	2014-01-24 02:41:00	Just sell it for whatever you get and get over it. Compared to having to pay to dump it, it's not a bad deal. And at least you know it's going to someone who wants it, rather than landfill etc.	Agent_24 (57)
1365888	2014-01-24 02:41:00	<- Using a S3. can't see me replacing it till it dies... probably with something mid range (probably better than s3 by then anyways)	whiteandnerdy (17120)
1365889	2014-01-24 02:47:00	A few people I know in the industry have more simple stuffs. Our mechanic has a late 1980s or early 1990s Toyota Corolla Hatch, the previous mechanic who serviced some police vehicles he's near the city, had a Ford Laser Hatch. In the past at the homestay; a IT guy at the uni had a 8MB RAM Pentium 100 and this was in the year 1999 with a very old case that had the power switch at the back corner. That was for my use. In 1998 my bro bought a very avg 200Mhz CPU. Their family had a 133Mhz or something with 16MB RAM. A former neighbour did bathroom work, when he sold his house they had a open house and I was told their kitchen didn't have a rangehood, the shower cube was in a dark yellow glass cabinet. This was about 2010.	Nomad (952)
1365890	2014-01-24 02:48:00	Just sell it for whatever you get and get over it. Compared to having to pay to dump it, it's not a bad deal. And at least you know it's going to someone who wants it, rather than landfill etc. Dunno who woudl get it but it is listed. I'm gonna set a base line for these stuff. B/c I know some people who purchase 2 or 3 phones every year; LOL. A few sensible people where they have affordable cellphone plans get a free iPhone pass it to their mother and get another free one but over here those plans are expensive. Some of them have dual handsets dual phone numbers ...	Nomad (952)
1365891	2014-01-24 05:09:00	On the subject of portable printers, we had some new tech installed at work. Came with a portable colour inkjet, with a $500 price tag. The printer wasn't needed. Hasn't even printed a test page since being connected. Total waste of moneyand space and resources. Add to that a conventional inkjet would have been cheaper waste, but why waste money and resources in an economical fashion when you can throw it all away by the bucketload? (I set the default printer to the mono laser on the network instead)	Paul.Cov (425)
1365892	2014-01-26 08:57:00	Just sell it for whatever you get and get over it. Compared to having to pay to dump it, it's not a bad deal. And at least you know it's going to someone who wants it, rather than landfill etc. Guilty as charged :blush: I sold a dead Xerox A3/A4 copier for $1 reserve just to get rid of it. I would have needed help to load it up to take it to the tip, but via TM I got it taken away free and I made 50c on the deal! Poor guy had a hell of a job to get it in his car even with my help :D I've done a few more $1 deals since then, with very satisfactory outcomes! Some sold for outrageous prices after an unexpected bidding war. I do make sure that my ads are scrupulously honest though, and I still have a 100% positive feedback record after more than 500 transactions. Cheers Billy 8-{) :thumbs:	Billy T (70)
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