Yearly contracts with a price set based upon an audit of the waste a business produces. Doesn't sound very "Uber" like.
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Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
#32Startup 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…
I guess at-home refuelling is a nice benefit of an electric car.
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#33This is great but what if, hold on, we paid taxes.
Wouldn't it be better if we were allowed to interact voluntarily? Pay for what we wanted and used, and support people and causes through charity instead of under duress?
Do you want to live next to the guy who either cannot or is unwilling to pay? Nobody else does either.
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#34For residential there's already companies like Junk King, 1-800=Got-Junk and the like. I moved twice in the last seven months and made use of a pickup service like this each time. Admittedly they might not be available in the moment but I had no problem with next day service.
Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
#35Time to kick your current waste management provider... TO THE CURB.
Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
#36Startup 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…
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.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
They don't already have an arrangement? I've never noticed this problem at a grocery outlet.
Don't grocery stores just have dumpsters? What problem is this solving that a dumpster doesn't?
It's illegal to dump trash in someone else's dumpster without permission, for one.
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#38Earlier 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.
They're not paying the gas station price. They're likely paying bulk prices then just using the local prices as your price.
Edit: $3 for delivery generally and they're using F250 trucks. Call it 1.5t in the bed or about 400 gallons plus tank. They probably have a contract with the local bulk terminal so if you're paying 2.55, they might be paying 30% (no idea what this margin is) less or so. @400 us-gal if they make 30% on the gas plus $3 per 15gal tank, revenue would be in the $380/load range for an average of 26 tanks of gas per load.
Edit2: regarding the loss leader strategy, they still have to truck the gas to the station which adds overhead. By going direct to customer (again, assuming they're loading at the bulk terminal) they remove a couple middlemen who's position they then take.
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#39I can see at least one consumer use for this. When we clean out the garage, my girlfriend and I rent a uhaul truck to take everything to the dump/goodwill/storage. If I could use this service to just have somebody show up with a truck and pick up the things we want to throw away, it would be really helpful.
1-800-got-junk?
Sure, but if this is "uber for garbage", then wouldn't the equivalent to existing services be yellow taxi?
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#40I want this for residential. Instead of having a "trash day" I wait until my garbage can is full, click a button on my app, and tomorrow morning someone comes and picks up my trash.
No need for a button -- add pressure sensors inside the trash can and it can signal the garbage person for you.
Oh man, I can't wait to hear about a botnet of garbage bins.