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

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Goofy story - when I lived in China… those couple of years that I did, recyclers paid you to recycle your stuff ;p .  it was a real win situation for me - as opposed to having to pay someone here for recycling ;o .  Go figure :( ~


> On Nov 1, 2018, at 6:17 pm, Doug Alderdice <ka2wft at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> 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
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