One mans junk.......

29 Nov 2009

I find it amazing what people throw away. As discussed in another thread I am a game geek and collector seller of sorts. In the picture below is a collection of stuff that I buy from a contact. He gets his stuff from a friend at THE DUMP!!!! Amazing! I imagine if I wanted to sell all of the below I could get around a Â£1000 for it and thats only a fraction of what I have gotten from this guy.
A rough guide to whats in the pic. Playstation 2 consoles about 6, same for Xboxs. Nintendo 64 consoles about 5, a Gamecube. A ZX spectrum plus 2 plus huge box of games (probably sell for Â£60 upwards even listed as untested). About 3 gameboy consoles, a Mega drive, Master system, A NES console. A mix of around 100 PC, Playstation 2, Playstation, Xbox and other games. Around 7 PS1 consoles. Boxed Sega Saturn and N64 limited edition consoles. House of the dead boxed set for Dreamcast plus Shenmue 1 and 2 boxed sets complete. 3 Dreamcast consoles Amazingly the blue console you see in the middle fo the Picture is a Playstation 1 debugging console. This would have been used by game developers. Theres been one on Ebay of late and the seller was asking Â£600 or best offer.

If I had a choice of jobs I would run the dump, would be a millionaire easy lol

Seen idiots down there chucking away huge pieces of lead. Recession? or is the country full of numpties.

29 Nov 2009

hmmmmm are you one of the guys that we often find inside our bin at work, who we only know is there cos he shouts when we nearly hit him as we throw more rubbish in it lol

29 Nov 2009

That's an amazing stash ya got there Tweeky lol

I love looking through peoples "old junk" :lol:
My Aunt an Uncle made their money on other peoples junk - started out in the late 50's an did rather well for themselves. My cousin buys peoples old comics/annuals - he does well on that.

29 Nov 2009

Quote by tweeky
I find it amazing what people throw away. As discussed in another thread I am a game geek and collector seller of sorts. In the picture below is a collection of stuff that I buy from a contact. He gets his stuff from a friend at THE DUMP!!!! Amazing! I imagine if I wanted to sell all of the below I could get around a Â£1000 for it and thats only a fraction of what I have gotten from this guy.
A rough guide to whats in the pic. Playstation 2 consoles about 6, same for Xboxs. Nintendo 64 consoles about 5, a Gamecube. A ZX spectrum plus 2 plus huge box of games (probably sell for Â£60 upwards even listed as untested). About 3 gameboy consoles, a Mega drive, Master system, A NES console. A mix of around 100 PC, Playstation 2, Playstation, Xbox and other games. Around 7 PS1 consoles. Boxed Sega Saturn and N64 limited edition consoles. House of the dead boxed set for Dreamcast plus Shenmue 1 and 2 boxed sets complete. 3 Dreamcast consoles Amazingly the blue console you see in the middle fo the Picture is a Playstation 1 debugging console. This would have been used by game developers. Theres been one on Ebay of late and the seller was asking Â£600 or best offer.

If I had a choice of jobs I would run the dump, would be a millionaire easy Seen idiots down there chucking away huge pieces of lead. Recession? or is the country full of numpties.

You should try Freecycle UK, people are giving away stuff that they were going to chuck. I mean in the name of being friendly to the environment of course. As I might have mentioned here before I am studying computer maintenance for my CompTIA A+ and often advertise for bits, up to now I've built twelve half decent starter systems half of which I have sold to people who otherwise would never be able to afford a computer.
By the way, anyone interested in a P4 with 512Mb RAM, all working with nice sound / graphics cards, windows xp, keyboard, mouse and monitor? Â£50 ono! lol

29 Nov 2009

Freecycle is great for giving stuff away which I have used it for biggrin

I'd guess though its pretty useless for gaining anything as anything of any value is snapped up in like 10 seconds by people who probably sit at the PC pressing refresh all day. I put a collection of 6 broken power tools on freecycle and had around 7 emails by the time I left the site and went to my email inbox :shock: They were collected within 2 hours I think. Same story for a baby cot.

29 Nov 2009

You may want to check the PS1's. if they have stereo audio out (red and white phonos) they are VERY sort after by HiFi geeks as CD players because sony dumped aload of high end digital audio chips in them. Stuff you couldn't get in sub Â£2000 equipment at the time of release of the PS1. And not really bettered to this day.

29 Nov 2009

Quote by Mr_Lilly
You may want to check the PS1's. if they have stereo audio out (red and white phonos) they are VERY sort after by HiFi geeks as CD players because sony dumped aload of high end digital audio chips in them. Stuff you couldn't get in sub Â£2000 equipment at the time of release of the PS1. And not really bettered to this day.

Interesting, still learning about console stuff all the time biggrin

I'll check PS1's :D the only one I know for sure that has those outputs is the debugging one and thats worth a bit anyway.

29 Nov 2009

Well i have kind of squirralled away rather a lot of quilting fabrics over the last 10 years and am now selling it on ebay... and i am amazed at how much money i am making... and also amazed at the amount of money i have in my work cupboard:-D

29 Nov 2009

Quote by flower411

OI !!! I never gave you permission to post photos of me !!!!
lol

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29 Nov 2009

your right about ebay.
when i run a nascar fantasy league on a website a diecast company gave me a limited edition dale earnhardt snr model as i was promoting their company.
this model went for over Â£800.i was completely staggered by the amount people wanted to pay just for a diecast car.

29 Nov 2009

Quote by skippy411
A trip round town to check out skips usually brings in a few kilos of lead and copper.

Chav.....................:mrgreen:

29 Nov 2009

Quote by minxysub
Well i have kind of squirralled away rather a lot of quilting fabrics over the last 10 years and am now selling it on ebay... and i am amazed at how much money i am making... and also amazed at the amount of money i have in my work cupboard:-D

Quote by tyracer
your right about ebay.
when i run a nascar fantasy league on a website a diecast company gave me a limited edition dale earnhardt snr model as i was promoting their company.
this model went for over Â£800.i was completely staggered by the amount people wanted to pay just for a diecast car.

Ebay can be a blast and can be addictive to. There are some amazing opportunities like you have pointed out above nothing astonishs me anymore. Around 18 months ago I stumbled upon an opportunity by chance on Ebay once gain through my hobby of console gaming. I made a Â£7 purchase from an American ebay seller and by the end of the day had sold the goods for Â£32. The goods were electronic so didnt have to be posted all I had to do was copy and paste lines of code to buyers who bought the product. Sadly there was only so much of the product sad

I made around Â£6000 from total investment of about Â£700 and all I did was sit on my ass for 30 mins everyday copying and pasting numbers.
I kind of lucked out with that deal, right time right place blah blah. Its the kind of thing that suits me to be honest. People say to me why dont you go for it your good at this kind of thing but I know inside me I dont have the drive to ever do anything like this full time. Making cheap money is fun biggrin

trying to drive for a Â£100000 empire just sounds like a chore and too much hard work lol