[sdiy] Major Score in the Dumpster at work!

[Benjamin M. Woenig]

A mate of mine works on the front desk of a Sony repair centre, and they
get lots and lots of stuff that comes through to be fixed, and people just
don't
come back to get it after. And as per the usual pointless business ethic,
its
all gotta be trashed.... no one takes it home. In many cases (particularly
with the cheaper Sony DVD players, which they seem to get about 10 a
week in to repair) the whole insides are replaced instead of trying to
trouble
shoot what the problem is. Only about half of the customers come back for
their machines, and the rest are smashed and dumped in the bin!! Its just
the most illogical thing you can imagine.....

Universities are in a similar basket... I attend two different uni's, and
the ethic
is just dodgy in both. At the bottom of a fire exit in the library of one is
a huge pily of decent 15" monitors. I've asked and asked all kinds of people
and the usual response is "these are to be disposed of, none are available
to
students". Can't walk out of the library with them either, as there is a
security
badge on each one that will set off the alarms as you walk out the door :(
They have probably already been dumped in the trash by now....

And, both uni's I attend have decent EMS collections. One has a "museum"
that
never gets used by anyone, just for the head to look at, the other has 3 EMS
synth sitting in a cupboard....

I'm trying....

And don't ask what uni's!!!!!

~ben


> I've been told that that destruction game is played in electronics stores
> as well - if e.g. TV sets don't sell (not even at dumping prices) they
> just have to be destroyed.
>
> Business obeys strange rules.
>
> Rainer
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> Rainer Buchty, LRR, Technical University of Munich
> Phone: +49 89 289-28401, Fax +49 89 289-28232, Room S3240
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