So I recently made a major career change and I've ended up working at an electronics recycling plant for the time being. So I'm walking through the plant and witness a stack of Sony PVMs and a couple JVC PVMs. This is nothing new, I would have a field day if they cut me loose inside and allowed me to rip through every pallet. I ask the operations manager if they bother testing them and possibly selling them off, he said they don't mess with them, because no one wants CRT monitors. They are shipped downstream to be disposed of properly . I pulled a few out and and started listing off prices for them if they are tested and work properly. I'm currently trying to set it up to get these PVMs tested according to proper standards, so they can be resold. PVMs are hard to find in my area and I know people would want them. This would save the company money because they wouldnt have to pay to have them destroyed and make a gamer happy at the same time. I'm waiting the day a pallet of dev kits arrive, if I ever come across them, I'll do my best to save them! Ive also seen a few very nice stereo systems destroyed, it just breaks my heart every time. I wish I could get on the line of people decommissioning the electronics, I know they just rip through stuff mindlessly. Unfortunately the company has bigger plans for me. I'll just have to try to grab the good stuff before it's too late!
I think the biggest issue with CRT sales is their mass, sometimes it's just too expensive to ship it to someone fairly far away from the local place. Wait, you mean home consoles dev kits or which? Well, it can cause legal troubles, dev kits isn't typical hardware with regular shipping and recycling rules, i think. Maybe i'm wrong.
Well if you DO succeed in your quest to salvage these monitors, please let me know. I'm always on the hunt for those.
By people. Companies do not make actual decisions. I found a working ps2 with cables controllers and memory card while throwing out the trash. The other day I brought home a decent core 2 quad pc with 1 terabyte drive.
You should see what the IT dept in the company I work for has thown out lately.......2 pallets of 30 blade servers. over 50 desktops, around 600 hard drives then theres the hundreds of lengths of network cables and (working) 2 NVIDIA Quadros! Just shocking
The problem is it won't save the company money. Someone has to test them... and they have to be properly PAT tested, too. And that has to be marked and logged. Then, you'll probably find you have some law about selling second hand goods with some kind of warranty (e.g. the Unform Commercial Code in America)... so you have to keep working stock back, or have a repair man, just in case. Unless you're allowed to sell it "as-is", marking it prominently as such. Selling second hand electronics commercially is actually quite a hassle.
If you sell them ala thrift, it's quite clear they are as-is . (Turned on, basic testing to see it works without huge problem) I don't see how there would be a problem. Heck, they could sell'em locally on ebay or whatever probably. There are quite a few companies, recycling companies even that sell on the internet or on ebay. Where do you live by chance OP?
It really depends on where you are. There are restrictions on companies selling second hand electrical goods, due to the dangers. You should find that Goodwill have to have theirs tested, for example. In the UK, the vast majority of charity shops won't touch electronics for that reason. eBay is another pain - shipping a heavy, fragile item with a huge piece of glass and a vacuum. You'd have to follow whatever restrictions your carrier imposes for that - more than likely that they have to be boxed in double wall cardboard with polystyrene protection. That means the company has to buy (possibly even have custom made) suitable packing materials, as television studios don't keep the boxes in the basement. It takes a lot less time and money to hire a bunch of kids to rip things apart than it does trained engineers to test, service and certify them, people to photograph, list and answer questions on eBay, a picking and packing department to send them out, a contract with a carrier and of course, the storage space! That's why the majority of stuff these places sell are either high value or easy sell (pull a chip / RAM, it's small, fits in a Jiffy bag or small box - plus you can have someone test it without being a trained engineer, technically).
But it's people making business decisions for the company. I used to be a supervisor at an electronics store and we had pallets full of faulty and broken goods which I decided to dispose of even if a lot of it could have been fixed, just because it would take someone to go through it all and fix everything when they could make more money for the company doing something else in the same amount of time. Whereas had they been my own personal belongings, I would have probably kept them either to fix or sell on as faulty.
This is why you can buy pallets of faulty stuff. Company gets quick return, people like us can buy and profit.
Exactly, people make those decisions. It's not like a company is a living being that make it's own decisions. It takes supervisors, like you, to make decisions like that. If I were you I'd buy a van and load all of those goodies into it and take them home. Then sell it on eBay and keep whatever I wanted.
