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dumpster diving !
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21. February 2008 @ 01:40 |
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Hehe, I didn't want to say anything but that works too.
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21. February 2008 @ 06:37 |
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well its a sad day in dumpsterville. the BB that i got my first big load and alot of others is closed!!!!!!!!!!!!! worked late lastnight, went to the dive afterwards what do i se the nuildng all closed up signs on the doors saying were closed and moved to new location..30-40 away there was all kinds of junk in the dumpster. No cases..well i got 2 and 3 thick pokemon mag's
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21. February 2008 @ 07:23 |
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cincyrob- darn That's Gotta Sting !!!!!!!!! Gee I complain cause my local Blockbuster's 2 nearest stores are 18-20 something miles from my sQuatch Cave in either Direction & it only get's worse from there !especially with the price of gas like it is ! So I generally make a roadtrip out of it and visit other stores & do some errands ! Well rob You could always try and get a side job with the Waste management Company as long as you could get the Blockbuster routes & Keep all You catch LOL!!!!!!!! seriously though You should be good for awhile though with all those Sucessfull previous dives right ? I would still check the dumpster there a few more times case they have'nt finished Cleaning up You never Know You Might Get Mega Lucky ??????? with The cases & stuff I mean !!!!!!!!!! LOl ! Good luck & happy Burning & Diving anyways ! rob Ciao!!!!!!!!
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21. February 2008 @ 07:47 |
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Scored 150 cleaned already boxed up cases from Blockbuster at the checkout. Didn't have to get dirty. Just ask.
21Q does seem to be "finding" a lot of good stuff??????? :)
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21. February 2008 @ 08:57 |
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Tis a sad day for the cincyman!! You know what's ironic?? I have 4-5 stores within 5 miles of my house and I've yet to come up with any goodies.... ggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... lol. Heck I have 2 less than a mile from the house.... Yep nothing!!
garmoon we'll have to stop by 21Q's place and see what we can get. lol. His "trash" is better than most of my "treasure".. hehehe. :P j/k 21Q..
....gm
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21. February 2008 @ 12:39 |
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Oh god they are on to me!
Anyway, right now I'm regretting not picking up some cable box's that I saw earlier because now mine is on the fritz and I don't want to call my cable company >_>
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21. February 2008 @ 14:20 |
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@greensman
Yeah we'll get Varnull to locate his pc and get his address and we'll show up the next day and split it 3 ways. Be very aware, 21Q! LMAO
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21. February 2008 @ 15:28 |
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Originally posted by garmoon:
@greensman
Yeah we'll get Varnull to locate his pc and get his address and we'll show up the next day and split it 3 ways. Be very aware, 21Q! LMAO
garmoon do you really want to get varnull involved?? hehehe. She'll try to make us her minions. :D
@21Q,
Shame on you for not picking those cable boxes up. On the fritz or not extra parts is extra parts.. ;P
....gm
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21. February 2008 @ 17:24 |
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@greensman
varnull ran an attack on my pc to check if my unused ports were in fact closed. It was unrelenting. She ran it all night and Norton Internet Security almost had a heart attack. I had so many alert messages of intruder attacks I could not get rid of them.I watched for a while in the log file. I finally just had it top notifying me. No ports at risk but she had me disable something call netbios since I'm not on a network. She some computer savvy.
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21. February 2008 @ 19:03 |
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Hey everyone what's up. It's been awhile since i posted here but I just wanted to let u know I got someone on the inside now at Blockbuster. My girl is getting a job there while she's going to school. Maybe now I won't have to jump in the dumpsters and get all dirty looking for cases. She'll be starting there in a couple weeks so I'll let u know how it goes. Happy diving everyone
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21. February 2008 @ 19:19 |
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First dive in a long time.
Came up dirty with three cases to show for it.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRR....now it's on.
I'm diving more now just to make up for this one bad trip.
Damn it!
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21. February 2008 @ 21:37 |
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7thsinger,
That's why I basically gave up dumpster diving. lol. I was tired of getting dirty for such a small haul and these guys are PROS. lol. 100's of cases at once, amps, Apple products, and the list goes on. :P
I still have my weak moments and drive by but I've come up empty handed more times than I care to count. ;)
Good luck to the PROS out there and may your luck run over to me some day. :D
....gm
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21. February 2008 @ 21:52 |
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Pro Tip: Go out on garbage nights and move to a city type area.
Today is garbage night and I was able to grab this. It has 500mhz so its not so good. I stuck I dvd-cdrw I had to fill in the hole.
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22. February 2008 @ 05:09 |
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I've got a 498 mhz pc,similar to that one and it was heck of a dvd burning machine.
I had to keep compression down,but backing up dvd-5 to dvd-5,it is faster than my athlon 3300+. Now the kids use it to watch dvds.
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22. February 2008 @ 12:31 |
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i got the same 1 but is a 400mhz version. supposedly can goto about 600mhz.
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22. February 2008 @ 13:22 |
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Quote:
7thsinger,
That's why I basically gave up dumpster diving. lol. I was tired of getting dirty for such a small haul and these guys are PROS. lol. 100's of cases at once, amps, Apple products, and the list goes on. :P
Don't get me wrong, i've had a decent little score now and then...but nothing like the ones i read about here.
I'll read some of the things these people get, or see pics of them (like 21Q) and it inspires me to press on! Move forward, dive deeper.
Then i get three dvd cases.
Needless to say...count me in on the raid on 21Q...Greensman/Garmoon/7thsinger.
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22. February 2008 @ 17:12 |
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pretty good decoy i have there in 21Q. he has all your attention to get him and his amp's and such..... now i dont have to worry about my 1200+ cases....lol
im going to the BB that i just got the 500+ cases from. 2 dives back. they got the sweetest setup also/ dumpster on the side of the buildng where no one can see ya in the middle of the day, when DAY DIVEING...hey i just made up a term that AD needs to put in its data base...lmao!!!!!
DAY DIVEING=where no one can see ya in the middle of the day
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well i went to my trusty dive that is out of order..lol just checking 1 last time. yup you guessed it. 2 big bags triple baged. havent gone through them yet. maybe 200-250 cases
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22. February 2008 @ 23:34 |
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By "BB": I assume you mean Best Buy or Blockbuster. Also to anyone hear that goes diving at best buy or even big stores like that, how do you get into their dumpster. because by me they have a circular dumpster covered everywhere and the only onpening connects into the building. I went ten minutes to go to try and search but I couldn't figure out how to get in. So I gave up. Also where are some nice places to go to to dumpster dive for some technology crap. I live in a suburb of chicago population about 25,000. So its not to small. AS for my first day, i consider it a success as i managed to go to blockbuster and pull out 20 cases.
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23. February 2008 @ 05:57 |
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Originally posted by pwhite23:
By "BB": I assume you mean Best Buy or Blockbuster.
mostly here BB=BlockBuster.
and congrats on your first dive. 20 cases is better than none...lol
they will get better. dont rush it and dont think you will hit it big everytime out. i havent tried a best buy, but you are the third person in here i know that has said they have there dumpsters all enclosed...so that tells me they are tossing some good stuff and dont want anyone to have it for free.
as for technology type stuff 21Q is the man who gets all those goodies around here..lol id say the smaller type stores wouldnt have as much, so you might look for the big named places..
best buy, circuit city,radio shack,ext....
heck my dumb azz just realized something. my wife works at walmart. i know they have some big dumpster and i havent gone to look in any of them...guess where im going today..lmao
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well heres the final numbers from my favorite BB thats no more.
204 single cases.11 double sided cases.3 game cube cases
36 nitendo ds cases total of 254. man im gonna miss that place..lol
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23. February 2008 @ 11:45 |
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this reminds me when my stepfather worked for sears as a stationary engineer. they had a dumpster outside the boiler room that the sears employees used to dump stuff that was either discontinued or not worth fixing. i got a 4k watt gasoline generator, a 10" table saw, 10" miter saw which altogether cost me about $400 to fix for those 3 items. got a spare motor section for the miter saw & the frame & motor for a 10" radial arm saw. got parts for an air compressor that i'm slowly putting together. he also retrieved about a 100+ hardwood rake handles that he gave to a friend who used them for stakes for tomatoe plants.
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23. February 2008 @ 12:25 |
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I hit a carwash to wash the salt off my car. I checked the dumpster behind it and all the trash cans- No bottle caps. You gotta figure people cleaning the trash out should have a lot of plastic bottles to get rid of.
Then I checked out a nearby recycling center. They keep glass bottles/tin cans/and plastic bottles in 2 dumpsters. I couldn't dive in it with all the broken beer bottles.Bottles suck-heavy,hard to stir it around for the goodies.I Got a couple coke caps and a 2 liter Pepsi cap.
I need one of those long reaching grippers then I can yield more caps/carton boxes. Their cardboard area-was a trash compactor leading into a regular trash dumpster that you couldn't get into.
I got another recycling center to check out today-never been there,and then my usual recycling center towards my Dad's place.
Any Ebayers out there, For Sh*ts and Giggles,search for:
My Coke Rewards
Pepsi Stuff
Dr Pepper 1 in 6 Wins
No promotion for Mountain Dew- Those Turds!!!
I've gotten 12 free dr peppers in the last 3 weeks-all thrown away. I avg 5 BOGO free pepsi caps per week- all thrown away.
I've got enough Pepsi points for 37 MP3 downloads= 188 pts. Promo just started 23 days ago.
You wouldn't believe what they're getting out of those bottlecaps/12 pk/24 pk cardboard codes that 75% of the people throw away. There's even a guy selling his Coke Account of 5000+ pts and counting-going over $300+.Win the auction and he gives you all his info,password so you can take over.
Someone else selling 10,000 coke points going for over $400
Anybody got any codes just sitting around,send them my way!! LOL. Lots of charities takes them as well.
Call me the "Code Man"!
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23. February 2008 @ 14:06 |
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ddp thats a good haul at new price all that probably would of been 1500.00 dollars plus
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23. February 2008 @ 14:37 |
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the generator alone was that price. the table saw has a cast iron top but was missing the fence & starter relay. the fence i made & got the manual that told me what the part number was for the relay which i bought from sears for $38. both the saw & compound miter saw still had their blades on them.
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23. February 2008 @ 14:53 |
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21Q: what stores do you look in for all of the electronic crap that you keep finding. Also does anybody know how to get into the dumpsters that are covered completely? Because I REALLY want to look in a Best buys dumpster but unfortunately can't because it completely covered. And I dont know why they would have them covered, they mind as well let people look through them if there going to throw it away anyway...just my thought. I wonder what would happen if I asked the store manager if I could get their "garbage" instead of them just throwing it away. Any comments about this situation post.
Thanks,
SICK WIT IT
When the going gets tough....the quitters quit.
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23. February 2008 @ 15:03 |
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They don't want you looking the dumpster because they would rather you come into the store and buy the item you find in the dumpster or something similar. Just my opinion for what it's worth. George
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