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On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag

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Re: On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag

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Post by elmuchoprez »

As a Midwestern suburbanite, I don't think I understand this service. When it comes to trash removal, the city already comes around once per week and collects whatever I put out there. The cost of this is baked into my city taxes and can't be opted out of so far as I know. There may be some technical limit as to how much they'll take at once, but I've never hit it. They even come around and take big stuff, like couches and mattresses, a few times per year. Is this type of service not common throughout the US?

This is an interesting idea for donatable goods like clothes, but I lose the write off and I'm not sure waiting around for a pick-up is really more convenient than just driving the stuff to a drop off location myself.

The only real advantage I see here is getting rid of stuff that's hard to dispose of: car batteries (you know, cause I'm always throwing those away), poisonous or flammable liquids, medical waste (which I don't think I've ever had), etc... but I can't believe that is profitable cargo for them to haul away at $5/bag.

What am I missing here? Am I just the wrong demographic for this?

Re: On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag

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Post by verelo »

elmuchoprez wrote: post #41

As a Midwestern suburbanite, I don't think I understand this service. When it comes to trash removal, the city already comes around once per week and collects whatever I put out there. The cost of this is baked into my city taxes and can't be opted out of so far as I know. There may be some technical limit as to how much they'll take at once, but I've never hit it. They even come around and take big stuff, like couch…

I feel similar in some ways. I live in an urban apartment building, we have a "recycle room" where I can leave anything I can produce and it magically goes away. Having said that, when I rented in a different part of the city we had a very small bin and shared it with the apartment downstairs. The bin would often fill up and I'd find myself holding onto trash because I had no room left for it and no time to drive to the dump. In that case $5 would have felt like a good deal!

Re: On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag

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Post by [deleted] »

CPLX wrote: post #31
declan wrote: post #24

This really could be Uber for trash. I pay something like $50 a month for trash collection services, or around $12 a week. That includes yard waste and recycling. If I can fit my trash and recycling into two bags per week and find something else to do with my yard waste, I'll save money by using GoodAndTidy for weekly trash pickup. I like their website and the idea, but it seems like a service that may have trouble b…

I posted my uber for trash comment first, ironically. I don't think you're kidding though, are you.

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Re: On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag

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Post by raminf »

I was looking for extra information so I entered my email into the field. Figured they'd sign me up for a mailing list like what all the sites out there do.

I was surprised to see it say "Thanks, expect an email from us first thing in the morning!"

I can't find a way to cancel the request. Hopefully it'll be in the email. I understand the need for rapid on-boarding but this was a bit of a surprise.

Re: On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag

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Post by savanaly »

raminf wrote: post #44

I was looking for extra information so I entered my email into the field. Figured they'd sign me up for a mailing list like what all the sites out there do. I was surprised to see it say "Thanks, expect an email from us first thing in the morning!" I can't find a way to cancel the request. Hopefully it'll be in the email. I understand the need for rapid on-boarding but this was a bit of a surprise.

I'm sure they get a million I don't have anything after all replies to their morning emails if that's how they operate.

Re: On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag

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Post by dang »

zak_mc_kracken wrote: post #40
manis404 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Paris, you also get to enjoy Marxism along with free recycling! NICE!

You've never been to France or you never paid much attention in school, did you? Probably both.

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Re: On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag

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Post by dang »

javert wrote: post #29
manis404 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Paris, you also get to enjoy Marxism along with free recycling! NICE!

Marxism: Where your life gets recycled for the use of others. Or you can go to the Sharia part of Paris and have your life be recycled for Allah.

Please don't post comments like this here.

Re: On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag

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Post by shostack »

oxtopus wrote: post #38

In Mountain View, and likely elsewhere in the Bay Area, charitable organizations make the rounds once a month to basically do the same. They provide the bags, collect them, and presumably sell what they can for cash. As for batteries and other hazardous materials, there's a protocol to have the city pick them up for no charge. I've never had a problem getting rid of stuff and feeling like I'm doing it responsibly. It…

Any links you can share to these services? Will have a bunch of stuff to give away soon and I'm not familiar with the various organizations in MV that help with this.

Re: On-demand pick up of your unwanted items. $5 a bag

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Post by tomjen3 »

roywiggins wrote: post #11

Where I last lived, there was at least one charity that had free pickup by truck. Not on demand exactly, but they could take anything useful if it was boxed- or furniture. You could leave your stuff on the porch and they would shift it for you. This seems strictly worse and very expensive if you want to get rid of any significant amount of stuff.

This one takes none-useful items too. The reason I want to get rid of the stuff is that it is not useful (unless you really want an old CRT tv or a case of broken computers, I guess).
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