As do I. I tried to dump my old 32" tube TV on Craigslist last year since I'd gone HD and was sick of that old thing taking up space in the closet. Excellent condition hand-me-down, lowballed the price way below the usual glut of second-hand units because it was large-enough screen to catch a whiff. I got so many e-mails from people "interested" and asking this and that, responding 2 or 3 times with more questions, then disappearing and never responding when I said, "So...you interested?". Or people telling me how their friends got a great deal on a similar unit, or said they've had theirs for years and it's a great set, or said I'm charging a real bargain price for it...but saying "Nah...I got HD" when I asked "So...you interested?" And then there were the 2 or 3 who tried to sell me on their foolproof pyramid scheme to buy more old TV's from Craigslist then re-sell them at profit. You know, because people are so successful at moving TV's on Craigslist apparently. I'm convinced Craigslist is just the same 4 people moving TV's between each other in a big JO circle.101Walterton wrote:I know how he feels
After a month of this crap and lowering the price to "Just get it out of my goddamn apartment!!!", I phoned up Salvation Army and asked if they wanted a free TV. They said no. So I called up the city and asked if that was fair game for trash pickup. They said "we only take up to 27-inch". I ended up having to pay $20 to get a permit to get an oversize TV hauled away. I left it on the sidewalk the day before with a printed picture of the set on and the words "FREE! Works great!" since it was summer and there were subletters cruising around trash-picking furnishings. Nothing. I heard the city truck come up the next day then smashing of glass when the 2 guys hurled it screen-first onto the truck amid all the scrap metal and matresses.
If there's one thing diem taught me, it's that there's a lot of homophobe home theater snobs in this country.
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Yeah, you can get rid of electronics if you want to pay for it. Which is why everybody just dumps them on the sidewalk here. Any day of the week I can find a Pentium case by the side of the road within 4 blocks of here. Somebody once dumped 3 perfectly working, without-a-scratch DVD players in my front garden. I'd have taken 'em too if any had remotes.
