Score! Nine TVs! :)

So I sent a response on CL to someone who said they had some 27" TVs. I thought maybe 2 or so. When she responded back and I called the number she gave, it was a hotel. She asked me how many I wanted, and it turns out that she had about a dozen! (I could only fit 9 in the back of my Tahoe.)

I know what I'm doing this weekend!



(I know it's not a huge score to a lot of you, but since I'm still super new to this, so it's a big deal to me!)

The CRTs and glass can go to my junkyard. They take them as part of the state's e-cycle program, which means that they don't pay for them, but they'll dispose of them safely for me. And I made sure the manager & owner have my info & told them that if they ever have anything else like that they need picked up, I'll come and get it for them.

I haven't done a "How much am I making" taking TVs apart thing, but if you can get rid of the glass, I've heard it pays decently. It's just boring, apparently.

Of course, 60% of my facts are completely wrong.

Hotels are plenty profitable. Search for such using the search feature an you'll find just as such from me an others.

Tv's are like 5 bucks or so give or take some change once scrapped depending on size. An what isn't boring that is broken down all the time? Computers are boring to. Open tower, remove everything, repeat. Tv..open case, remove everything, repeat. Boooorrrring!

Yet i do them all cause cash makes it all exciting.

Then again I just live on a sandbar an have no clue to what I'm talking about.

Sirscrapalot - I really need a smirking smiley Admin. Let's make this happen!

I work for a hospitality company with 30+ properties in a 50 mile radius. It started with my hotel, but now I have 6 of our properties calling. If its a company with more than 1 property I would definitely try to develop that relationship. If I were to TRY and actually reach out to the other 24 I would need to end up quitting my full time job... haha! That is the predicament I am now in =D

My favorite calls so far have been two hotels that re did the lighting in the pools. Turned out all of the old fixtures were cast aluminum due to the chlorine in the air alone with a couple pound capacitor on each one. Both time it was less than an hour of breakdown as I loaded them up - drive straight to the yard - $200 each time. Another was replacing the patio furniture.... loaded it up and straight to the yard with around 30 aluminum chairs.

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

If you don't know how long it's been since they have been plugged in then please read these threads, might save you some pain from electrocution.

http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/scrap...-possible.html

http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/scrap...ul-must-i.html

http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/scrap...eling-crt.html

http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/off-t...hows-work.html

The manager and housekeeper said they'd been in storage for a few months, but I always try to discharge the capacitator before working on them, just in case. Better safe than sorry! Plus, since I scrap with my boys, I try to make sure I'm setting an example of safety for them, you know? I'd rather they just learn that you ALWAYS try to discharge the capacitator on a TV and get into the habit of it.

You wouldn't happen to be in WV would ya hollyda31? There was a free listing on the Charleston WV craigslist for a hotel in Kanawha city getting rid of 27 inch TVs so it just sounded very familiar.

Originally Posted by MattyNoNeck

My local town transfer station takes them for free, and they didn’t even bat an eye when I dropped off five of them at once, and two of them were console TVs! So it’s good for now but when that outlet shuts its doors, we’re all going to be up crap creek without a paddle.

I’m also worried that they’re going to see that I’m running a business and tell me to scram next time I roll in with a truck load of TVs. I mean, they’ve seen my trucks with the signs on the doors and I’ve even asked about buying the whole PC towers they get dropped off so they know who I am and what I do. The town transfer station specifically states that it’s only for refuse generated in the town of [blank]. At any time they can tell me to GTFO if they want to. Then what am I to do? ARRRRGH it’s very stressful to me. This is why I don’t take TVs and if I do, I charge a fee or I’ll take one if I’m picking up a load of other scrap from someone.

Matty,

Got 17 of them if you want them plus 3 CRT monitors. I'll be making quite a few trips to Best Buy and Goodwill. Got these when I could have set up a deal with SunKing recycling in Buffalo. They really don't want them now either.

Well, the various levels of govs will have to pony up and deal with the situation. Not too many years ago, they wanted everybody to buy as many tube tvs as they could to help out the economy. But now they've figure out there are "issues" with these consumer products after people need or want to get rid of them. If the various govs want them out of the environment, then figure out a way to do it that's not overly burdensome to the public. Even a $10 fee around here would make some people balk and I know I'd see more and more dumped tvs in the rural ditches. Luckily, the metro that operates the local landfill here, takes them for free but of course they don't want any from a "business" (define business, there's a big difference between a 1-man show low budget operation and a mutli-million $$ operation but the city would probably treat them the same). I always have a funny feeling handing them an unit with no power chord and if looking close into the back, not all the parts (although I replace the back side of the unit).

The good thing is sooner or later the high water mark of getting rid of tube tvs will be meet and then the problem will start to go away as the flat screens I think would be easier to get rid of. Or I'm a missing the point with the newer stuff (haven't scrapped too many of those)??

ha ha..GF or wife upset cause ya'll brought home 1 or 17...You should be around when I roll in with 100, 50, 75, etc.

Ha ha!

Oh I love fireworks.

Sirscrapalot - Fireworks make me giggle.

Originally Posted by MattyNoNeck

I just gotta wonder…what’s going to happen in the next couple of years with all of these TVs? From my little bit of research and digging around, it seems to me that the “terminus” for all of this CRT glass is going to start to say nay to all of this. That means Best Buys, Goodwills, SAs, local dumps, etc. won’t take them anymore. What are we and the general public going to do with all of these things?

As you guys may or may not know, we are expanding into general junk removal as well as “just” scrapping and one of the CONSTANT items we get are CRT TVs and monitors. The commercial transfer station we take all of the actual trash too (pretty much anything that’s not recyclable) won’t take CRTs or tires at all. The CRT outlet, it seems to me, is going to dry up sooner than later, I thinking.

I did find a local recycler that will charge to take CRT glass, at least for now, but at 0.38 a pound! Holy crap! Now, we can, of course, charge a rate that will make it profitable for us to remove and recycle these CRTs but…wow…that’s going to add up pretty fast and really jack up the cost our bids and possibly scare some folks off.

As discussed a bunch of times many places like Goodwill and Best Buy take the TV's. Here in NY we have the NYS Electronic Equipment Recycling so there should always be some outlet for us to get rid of them for free.

Originally Posted by Sirscrapalot

ha ha..GF or wife upset cause ya'll brought home 1 or 17...You should be around when I roll in with 100, 50, 75, etc.

Ha ha!

Oh I love fireworks.

Sirscrapalot - Fireworks make me giggle.

Sirscrapalot,

Had a call from one of the local privately owned transfer stations about TVs. Tried to line something up with CarolinaEcycle, but he wasn't interested in a FTL. Could have sent them your way if you were interested.