some local Goodwill stores turning away business customers

**directrecycle** · 08-09-2012, 12:28 AM

Locally, some of the Goodwill stores have been turning away business customers ewaste. stating that they were to take only residential customers. Dont know if this is a new trend or specific to this store / area, Picked up 2 new regular customers already over it and planning on dropping off fliers tomorrow to pass along to the customers they turn away.

**newattitude** · 08-09-2012, 12:31 AM

I wonder why?? It doesn't make any sense because what does it matter where the monitors come from? I mean obviously its good for those who do tear them down and can snag them but its odd nonetheless.

**GeorgeB** · 08-09-2012, 12:35 AM

Originally Posted by newattitude

I wonder why?? It doesn't make any sense because what does it matter where the monitors come from? I mean obviously its good for those who do tear them down and can snag them but its odd nonetheless.

Their deal with the dell connect program, is probably not as sweet to them, as it once was. All corporate greed!

**directrecycle** · 08-09-2012, 12:45 AM

most of the stores around here are on the small side anyway and have limited room. Most are in strip malls. They are not turning away just monitors but everything.

**Ohio Scrapper** · 08-09-2012, 01:02 AM

I'm glad I'm one of the lucky ones. Just took in 10 today, 8 TVs and 2 monitors and they were really glad to get them.

**KzScrapper** · 08-09-2012, 07:24 AM

I'm fortunate to have a Goodwill about a mile away. So I drop off whatever I have if I'm going by there to avoid having to show up with more then just a few at a time.

**unknownk** · 08-09-2012, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by directrecycle

Locally, some of the Goodwill stores have been turning away business customers ewaste. stating that they were to take only residential customers. Dont know if this is a new trend or specific to this store / area, Picked up 2 new regular customers already over it and planning on dropping off fliers tomorrow to pass along to the customers they turn away.

DELL wants residential customers to recycle slightly older working machines to keep those machines out of the reseller market so they can sell more new DELLs. Anything that a computer reseller would dump off is broken trash, anything a scrapper would drop off must be costly to recycle (monitors depending on the state laws).

**happyscraper** · 08-09-2012, 08:04 PM

OK, This is how it works, you might not want to beleave me but this is it, I know foe a fact that Salvation Army and Goodwill both work the same way. All the electronics that they can't sell get shipped to Ca. Shipping cost are way up right now. From Ca. they shipped to china. They won't tell you this because they want people to thing thiere doing something good by keepping electronics out of the land fills. In a way they are keepping this stuff out of land fills by shipping to China.

**DropYoTop** · 08-09-2012, 10:42 PM

i think my goodwill second connection for e waste disposal is right around the block. And they pick it up in there own trucks for them.

Originally Posted by happyscraper

OK, This is how it works, you might not want to beleave me but this is it, I know foe a fact that Salvation Army and Goodwill both work the same way. All the electronics that they can't sell get shipped to Ca. Shipping cost are way up right now. From Ca. they shipped to china. They won't tell you this because they want people to thing thiere doing something good by keepping electronics out of the land fills. In a way they are keepping this stuff out of land fills by shipping to China.