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The Get-Rid-Of-Crap-Every-Month Club

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Re: The Get-Rid-Of-Crap-Every-Month Club

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Post by benguild »

Lewisham wrote: post #5

I do this all the time with Amazon's Trade-In Program. A couple of times a year, I look at my book shelf and video games. If I haven't read/played them within the last 6 months, and have no compelling reason to hold onto them for the foreseeable 6 months, into the box they go. Amazon then gives me a pre-paid shipping label. I find the whole process enjoyable. "How much will Amazon give me for this?" is an exciting ga…

You can make a little bit more money by shipping them to Fulfilled By Amazon and selling them at a higher price with Amazon Prime. It's great for things that people don't buy enough to warrant their trade-in program, and there's the risk of the occasional return, but it gets it all out of your house with really cheap shipping.

Re: The Get-Rid-Of-Crap-Every-Month Club

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Post by pavel_lishin »

> The cost of postage and the check along with all the processing costs are covered from the money generated from sales of valuable crap. Remember: one man’s crap is another man’s treasure.

And yet, Goodwill doesn't hand out $10 checks for every donation.

I suspect that the money earned from selling "another man's treasure" will rapidly decline.

At first, you'll have the type of people we imagine other HN readers sending things in - nice books, perhaps art, a few desktop toys and things like that. But after a few months, you'll start receiving things that I'd send in - desk lamps that are 99% functional, but don't quite bend in the angle that you want. Paperbacks that have been dropped into a puddle one too many times. An old thermos.

Re: The Get-Rid-Of-Crap-Every-Month Club

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Post by famousactress »

Lewisham wrote: post #5

I do this all the time with Amazon's Trade-In Program. A couple of times a year, I look at my book shelf and video games. If I haven't read/played them within the last 6 months, and have no compelling reason to hold onto them for the foreseeable 6 months, into the box they go. Amazon then gives me a pre-paid shipping label. I find the whole process enjoyable. "How much will Amazon give me for this?" is an exciting ga…

I've also used http://glyde.com/ to do the same.

Re: The Get-Rid-Of-Crap-Every-Month Club

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Post by fallse7en »

sp332 wrote: post #14
_fs wrote: post #12

Can we have a get-rid-of-medium-link-bait club?

What's wrong with medium vs any other blogging platform?

I'm wondering the same thing. I mostly enjoy articles from Medium, except that they seem to frequently present foreign-language articles that I can't read.

Re: The Get-Rid-Of-Crap-Every-Month Club

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Post by roc »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #13

> The cost of postage and the check along with all the processing costs are covered from the money generated from sales of valuable crap. Remember: one man’s crap is another man’s treasure. And yet, Goodwill doesn't hand out $10 checks for every donation. I suspect that the money earned from selling "another man's treasure" will rapidly decline. At first, you'll have the type of people we imagine other HN readers sen…

> "I suspect that the money earned from selling "another man's treasure" will rapidly decline."

That was my first thought: "people can fill boxes with crap worth less than ten dollars longer than you can cut checks for $10."

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