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An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
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Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
#182Reminds me of its always sunny: https://youtu.be/wCQ1_vHvzGY?t=3m5s
Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
#183While potentially a useful service for a consumer, the majority of waste is generated by businesses, who already have access to comparable services with their current provider (except when a CRT tv is involved!)
Seems this company raised based off an old business model of 1800 Got Junk and Junk King, on the coat tails of Rubicon Global's massive fundraising amount.
Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
You do, it's called throw it in the front yard. Anything metal will be picked up and melted down for $ by junk seekers. Used motor oil, insulation, car batteries, and other toxic stuff, I could see a door service being useful.
There are plenty of neighborhoods where you'll be fined by the HOA for doing that. Just "tossing in the front yard" isn't a feasible sustainable solution. Anyway if he's paying 50% in income taxes then it's unlikely he even lives in a neighborhood where junk collectors drive around
I don't think I could live in an HOA even if I was paid to. Those things are atrocities. To anyone in the market for buying a home, watch out for those and never buy one if it's under an HOA. You can find lots of horror stories about them online with a quick search.
A good tip for anyone suffering through one: they can't legally interfere with amateur radio towers, so if you're dissatisfied with having to live with your HOA, you can put up as big of an amateur radio tower as you can afford and they can't do anything about it.
Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
#185Shut this stupid joke of a business down and force municipalities to do this once and for all. We all know how Uber was trying to be profitable. Hire anybody to do the job of a cabbie for less .
Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
#186I wonder what is the reality of organized crime being a part of the contemporary garbage collection and recycling landscape.
And I wonder if these two have had any cover from it.
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#187Startup ideas inspired by Always Sunny in Philadelphia? http://itsalwayssunny.wikia.com/wiki/The_Gang_Recycles_Their... What's next? An Uber-like service that will deliver gasoline directly to your car that is parked in your driveway? Hmm... Come to think of it, that would actually be pretty sweet. I would never have to stop and fill up my gas tank! It would just always be full! A gas delivery truck would come in the…
See also Booster Fuels, based in Dallas-Fort Worth (ay!) and the Bay Area. https://www.google.com/amp/amp.star-telegram.com/news/traffi...
Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
#188Gimme one that will take non-standard trash.
I can already just call Got Junk and have them take most things. However, the canisters of paints and other crap that needs to be dropped at special locations? They won't take those.
Since I don't own a car (by choice), I'm essentially screwed. The disposal locations are only on very specific days with bad hours, and usually in the middle of nowhere.
It's the only thing I can't easily do without driving. Get me someone who will pick all that shit up and they'll get all my money.
Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://www.filld.com/
Filld customers pay the lowest price of the three gas stations closest to their location plus a small delivery fee. For example, if the three gas stations closest to you charge $2.62, $2.55 and $2.67 per gallon, you will pay $2.55. We purchase this pricing data from the Oil Price Indexing Service (OPIS), and we update it regularly. How do they make money? I wonder how high the delivery fee is.
Manhattan no longer has gas stations south of 12th street, and yet people pay > $400 for a parking space. This sounds like an ideal starting point for a burgeoning delivery service.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not a bad idea if the quality of the gas is verifiable.
How do you verify the gas from the stations you stop at now? The most thought I've put into it when I had a VW TDI was to fill up at a stations that were busy and more likely to have fresh fuel. A brand name station isn't a guarantee that the fuel is fresh if it is on the road less traveled.
That's a fair question to ask but I have some close friends working in the Petroleum industry and they insist on only getting gas from Chevron and Shell from the insider information they have. Not sure if it means much at all though.