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pandamonium
My mom and dad have a 46 in projection tv in their room that broke. it broke twice already and they are not going to pay another 400-600 to fix it. last time it took like 3 months and it was so expensive they would rather buy another one.


The problem is we dont want to throw it out, we want to like recycle it or give it to someone else, but nobody wants it. it is fixable but its just a little big.

Is there any companys willing to pick it up and take it? Or anybody have any other ideas.
freeridefight
off the top of my head, I would have to say any local tech shop like circuit city.
queen
leave it out in the street of a ghetto neighborhood.

someone's gonna take it ;x
pandamonium
QUOTE(freeridefight @ Mar 17 2008, 11:22 PM) *
off the top of my head, I would have to say any local tech shop like circuit city.


they do that kind of thing?

i didnt expect them but i will try and call tomorrow, i iwll call bestbuy also.

thanks
Melie
donate it
pandamonium
QUOTE(Melie @ Mar 17 2008, 11:32 PM) *
donate it


um thanks? lol that didnt come up in my mind already...


but i just found out that bestbuy will take away your old tv if you buy a new one and they deliver it to you house. so imma just do that. its easy convenient and good! lol someone can close this thread. thanks everyone.
freeridefight
QUOTE(pandamonium @ Mar 18 2008, 01:21 AM) *
um thanks? lol that didnt come up in my mind already...
but i just found out that bestbuy will take away your old tv if you buy a new one and they deliver it to you house. so imma just do that. its easy convenient and good! lol someone can close this thread. thanks everyone.


cool _smile.gif Hope everything works out.
shoryuken
idiot... send me that shiet..

you wan my numba n addresss...?
yaamakoh
cragslist.
i'm sure someone would want it.
yrrnotelekktric
i was going to say craigslist also. but if bestbuy will fix it or whatever....
Just_Dream
QUOTE(yaamakoh @ Mar 18 2008, 08:25 AM) *
cragslist.
i'm sure someone would want it.

Yea, as long as he doesn't meet some weirdo... jk :P

I was going to say goodwill, but yea if you honestly put that tv on FREE STUFF, people would immediately take it. lmao people are giving away free gravel on there, in my city. Oh, the things on craigslist thumbsup.gif
pandamonium
QUOTE(Just_Dream @ Mar 18 2008, 06:25 PM) *
Yea, as long as he doesn't meet some weirdo... jk :P

I was going to say goodwill, but yea if you honestly put that tv on FREE STUFF, people would immediately take it. lmao people are giving away free gravel on there, in my city. Oh, the things on craigslist thumbsup.gif


i tried to donate to my local goodwill but they dont really do pick ups. they have a truck that is operated by one person. and its not even a really big truck.

one time i tried to donate a couch but they said they couldnt take it because it wouldnt fit in the truck and only one person would be carrying it.

i was like wow.

i dunno how craiglist works....

thats why i am scared to use it. yea again i dont want to meet anybody weird. lol and for some reason i used to think craiglist was only for california.
Eww
QUOTE(synkro @ Mar 17 2008, 10:30 PM) *
leave it out in the street of a ghetto neighborhood.

someone's gonna take it ;x


lolwtf.

That's sure nice.
Just_Dream
QUOTE(synkro @ Mar 17 2008, 08:30 PM) *
leave it out in the street of a ghetto neighborhood.

someone's gonna take it ;x

lmao I used to live in this reallllllly ghetto neighborhood, and the back of my house was an alley. We left an old beat up dresser (it was really big though, and really heavy!) in the alley and I think my dad said 15 minutes later it was gone. It's cool we were planning on getting rid of it since it was old and shitty, but man that was quick, considering it's size! LMAO. Seriously, took 4 of us to get it down stairs and outside the door.
Sumiaki
QUOTE(Just_Dream @ Mar 19 2008, 12:00 AM) *
lmao I used to live in this reallllllly ghetto neighborhood, and the back of my house was an alley. We left an old beat up dresser (it was really big though, and really heavy!) in the alley and I think my dad said 15 minutes later it was gone. It's cool we were planning on getting rid of it since it was old and shitty, but man that was quick, considering it's size! LMAO. Seriously, took 4 of us to get it down stairs and outside the door.


In my neighborhood a really beat up truck with high gates on its bed comes by on "garbage days" picking up random junk like refridgerators and other stuff people are throwing away. I mean our neighborhood isn't ghetto, I just thought it was weird. And yes they were of a certain ethnicity but I will withdraw from releasing such information.
superficial
Usually when I have to throw something that's enormously large, then I would just leave it outside, and put a note saying "PG&E PICK UP ONLY" or something like that. When I put the sign, no one comes and steals it so it's all good. You can put whoever you want to come pick it up (that's willing to). You can also donate it to a relative who's in need of a new TV or something haha.
kryogenix
Our town has a drop off depot for that kind of stuff. It's cool cause you can go in and take anything you want. There are always people scavenging motors from old lawnmowers and washing machines.
pandamonium
QUOTE(kryogenix @ Mar 26 2008, 01:55 AM) *
Our town has a drop off depot for that kind of stuff. It's cool cause you can go in and take anything you want. There are always people scavenging motors from old lawnmowers and washing machines.


thats pretty cool. i wish we had somehting like that here.
we have like 3 ricecookers that we are going to throw out.
Relentless
^ Wow 3? Shoot, I only have one and its been working fine for years. haha.

If you didn't donate yet, what about Fry's? I'm pretty sure they do something like Bestbuy perhaps?
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