You compacters everywhere: Our Christopher Kolp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> askz:
<You mentioned that you purchase them by the pallet. Can you recommend a source for pallets of old macs? Any closeout places you can recommend?> I and other listers here like Jeff Garrison find squadrons of old Macs from time to time with little predictability as to when or where. Others here regularly find them at university or school district auctions. Twice, I have found them at the odd salvage yard business that bid but a single dollar for a lot of sixty (!) pallets of assorted computer stuff including some assorted other stuff you wouldn't care to be burdened with. Remember, these salvage yards are paying next to nothing because they save the original seller a lot of dollars and headaches of getting rid of that "assorted" stuff that no one would pay a dime for. Indeed, the disposal fee of around $10 at the local solid waste utility for anything with a CRT in it makes a pallet of compact Macs an expensive proposition to dispose of. If 36 compacts on a pallet that cost you a buck all had bad screen burn and grossly defective components, it is going to cost you $360 locally just to take them to the dump. While most pallet loads of compact Macs will yield treasure, one such school district auction here sold a coupla pallets of compacts that were all grossly defective. The clues were that the cases were not closed securely, many were noteably light of weight, and many of them had really gross unhappy faces drawn on them often with very specific, and usually horrid symptoms penciled upon them. If at auction, then the words "buyer beware" applies mightily. You will find the occassional pallet of compacts on eBay. Beware the shipping costs. A pallet load is in the realm of motorfreight which may also require you to have your own forklift to swiftly offload them at your end. So much for the cautions. Look to the odd salvage yard, keep looking, and keep asking. A tall pile of stacked compacts under bluepoly in the dusty corner of a recycle business is easily spotted by one of us even clear across the county. Bill -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
