[GreenKeys] Crawford Generating Station Teletypes, Chicago...

[Doug Alderdice]

Another tack to take these days is perhaps you'll be saving them the 
money to have a recycler haul it away.  I got a bunch of VoIP phones 
from a friend that way, whose employer had upgraded their phone system. 
On my query about whether this was really OK, my friend said, "Now I 
don't have to pay an electronics recycler to take those away."

FWIW, YMMV.

Doug, KA2WFT


On 11/1/2018 6:12 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>    The bean counter logic makes perfect sense within its limited scope. 
> Perhaps you can turn it around. If they must dispose of the stuff as 
> trash perhaps you can offer to collect the trash at a discount to them. 
> Ask what it will cost them for disposal and then offer to show up with 
> trucks and labor for a substantial discount. Not zero, beancounters do 
> not understand zero. If you are good at fast talking perhaps you can 
> save the gear and make a little something into the bargain.
>     Corporate minds work on a very simple level. If you put things in a 
> way that makes sense to them you can get away with nearly anything.
>      See "Oil of Dog"
> http://www.classicreader.com/book/2058/1/
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/1/2018 2:48 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> On Sun, 21 Oct 2018, Steve Ripper wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry for the delay in my reply.
>>
>> Ditto :-)
>>
>>> Had no luck with the trying to reach the CEO, Robert Perez.
>>> Suspect he is really too busy, or just not interested in our cause to 
>>> save a
>>> couple of Teletype machines.
>>
>> The corporate attitude, beancounter-wise, is that if something is 
>> donated then it must have value, and hence has to appear on the books 
>> as an asset (and valued accordingly); it's easier (for them) to toss 
>> out "junk" and write it off.
>>
>> -- Dave