OK. I'll take stuff to WITS and Best Buy. Just thought I'd give
ByteWorks first chance at saying no thanks.

Regards,
- Robert

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Theresa Kehoe <tms@...> wrote:
>
> >     Posted by: "Robert Citek" robert.citek@... rwcitek
> >     Date: Sun Jun 28, 2009 8:10 am ((PDT))
>
> > In that collection should be some useful stuff: computers,
> > motherboards, DSL modems, cables, printer cartridges, printers, etc.
>
> But we DO NOT ACCEPT printers and have not for a very long time -- we
> don't have the staff to troubleshoot and/or repair them, and most of the
> ones that were in the pile either had no ink cartridges or empty ones,
> so we couldn't even test most of them.
>
> There are several unopened laser cartridges -- for printers we do not
> have -- meaning there are now more boxes of unusable (to us) stuff piled
> on a shelf.  They will sit there until a volunteer has the time and the
> ambition to try and sell them, or until we ship them off to be recycled.
>
> > I only had six monitors and they should all work.
>
> Four of them either didn't work or were 15", which we don't have a use
> for (another volunteer offered to take those to Best Buy for us, so we
> didn't get stuck paying for them).  Also, our policy for years has been
> to charge a monitor disposal fee.  If you collected 6 monitors there
> should be a $60 payment due to us.
>
> > As for where I put the items, please advise.  Is there some other
> > place to put incoming donations when the area is already mostly full?
>
> Rather than blocking the doorway and the light switch that controls the
> back half of the shop, I'd suggest anywhere else in the building.
>
> > As for the rest, whatever is not needed or useful, put in the
> > WITS pile and I'll take it to WITS this coming week.
>
> That will be very useful -- after Saturday, the entire shelf is full
> again, with boxes piled up on the floor in front of it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Theresa
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