I was surfing through hardforum.com tonight to appease my boredom, and I came upon a thread that I found very interesting: Check this out.
So what do you think? Sounds like fun to me, but be careful, it's illegal in some places.
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I was surfing through hardforum.com tonight to appease my boredom, and I came upon a thread that I found very interesting: Check this out.
So what do you think? Sounds like fun to me, but be careful, it's illegal in some places.
I saw a documentary on this a while back. Some people were fishing out full copies of Windows 98 from dumpsters after 2000 came out, amongst other things. Sounds like a plan if you want computer hardware but are way too cheap to afford it. I was actually gonna try doing this at one point in time, but I never got around to it...
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I'd like to go dumpster diving at a video game store. :D
This is fucking awesome, but I dont think I need much more crap. Still my PC at home could use a new HD (its only 14 gigs), and there's an OfficeDepot right by my house. Maybe I'll go do this one day when Im back in NJ. Still I can't help but thinking of that Fight Club scene...
Me and the assistant manager at the EB I worked at found all kinds of cool shit our manager & DM would throw out. One time the manager (instead of offering it ot us) threw out his box of freebies from the EB trade show (think mini-E3). We split it up and each had about 30 new PC games and various promo stuff that was pretty cool.
Sounds sweet> I may have to try this soon at a Best Buy or Comp USA. Anybody know how big an offense this is, if at all?
This is nothing new. Some of my buds in college dumpster dive to live. A friend's band even released their CD using DVD cases because they didn't have the money for slimline CD cases, so they went dumpster diving at Blockbuster and got 100s of DVD cases for free instead.
EDIT:Not very, but people will probably be watching for it moreso now with that whole bomber thing.Quote:
Anybody know how big an offense this is, if at all?
I'm sure that there has been diving as long as there has been dumpsters. Just thought that it would help by bringing it to the surface.
And reading through the thread, apparently chains are the worst places too look, as the dumpsters are locked and have compactors.
ive been meaning to do this for some time now.
i was planning on seeing what this one skate shop had thrown out after the winter season (hoping to snag a snowboard. heh heh), but i was kinda scared about being caught or something.
I'm sure this is a great way to get some cool things, but there's no way I'm going to be waste deep in garbage just to get a free copy of The Hulk for the GBA.
hahaah Wow, i never thought of that! Skateshops must throw out a lot of good stuff! Skateboard decks, wheels, trucks etc..! And Video and games stores must be loaded with good shit! i should try this!!
haha - well, i can tell you guys one cool thing. I work at a borders books store, and all the old magazines that are taken off the shelf to make room for the new ones are stipped of their cover (because the actual covers of the magazines ONLY, are sent back to our distribution house) - however the actual magazines we box up and throw in the dumpsters out behind the store, most dumpsters behind book stores are NOT locked... but in a place like where the borders I work at is located there is shopping center security and patrols by local police - so you gotta be careful.
But I can't tell you how many times I've gotten off of work at night around 11 pm to drive around the shopping center for a shortcut, only to see dumpster divers making off with tens of boxes of free magazines - hahah! Hey i don't care, I just work there.
Chains are bad for dumpster diving. Many times, when stuff is defective, the companies will tell you to just destroy (ie-toss) the item since they don't want to pay to ship it back to them. But larger chains usually have compactors, locked dumpsters, or something else to prevent this. At my store, we don't have a trash compactor, but anything that is "destroyed" we actually destroy, with crowbars or sledgehammers, when neccesary.
It's a waste, I can't tell you how many countless times I've wanted to take home some of the stuff I was breaking, especially electronics equipment, when you KNOW that the item isn't defective, but the dumb shit that brought it back couldn't figure out how to load the drivers...
Smaller stores though, they don't pay the money for big compactors or locked trash bins... dive right in! I've also known people who have had luck with large corporations throwing out old computer shit.
Anyone ever read Working Sucks? It's this little pamphlet on finding ways to survive by doing as little work as possible. I has a whole section on Dumpster Diving for food and stuff.
Isn't that what homeless people do too? Try to take too many short cuts and the consequences can be disastrous.Quote:
Dumpster Diving for food and stuff.
haha yeah, Silver is right... besides, homeless people really have nothing to lose anyway, so I dont think they even bother to think about the consequences of dumpster diving, much less care about them if they do.
Dumpster diving is a craft in and of itself. The rabid anime fans havebeen diving behind animation studios for years to find like a cel of a disembodied arm. I wonder what dumpster sivers get behind Nintendo or other game company...