Picking Items from Dump Yards

LoulaBelle

Its an interesting thread this ................ our local dump the guys there, their wives sell all the good stuff at car boot sales - they watch every car unload like hawks!!!

I think the only way to get something would be to intercept the person about to part with the said item.

MediSin

Hmm, careful about taking stuff off skips, technically it's theft and people actually have been prosecuted for it. How stupid is that?

Freecycle is fantastic for getting rid of stuff, but if you want to acquire anything, better have quick reflexes! I think people sit around all day watching obsessively for new stuff to be posted. We had to get rid of some chairs at work, they were completely knackered with parts falling off, and I said so in my freecycle post, but still someone had replied and collected within 3 hours. Amazing.

But yeah, you need to get up really early to get past the car-booters at the tip, these people are hardcore!

This may be slightly dodgy, but a friend of mine memorised all the prices Cash Converters are likely to offer you for computer equipment, then stood nearby waiting for people to bring computers to sell and offered them £5 more. Kitted out his house quite impressively with tech stuff. He just isn't allowed back into Cash Converters any more! :rotfl:

picklepick

take a walk down a street in New York and the probability is you'll see a little box at the bottom of someone steps with books, records, sometimes you see sofas or bikes with a little note "please help yourself". If we did that in this country there'd be outrage and we'd be probably get fined for dumping! although I have in the past left things out with a note and they're gone within half an hour. Unfortunately I dont think groups like freecycle are that well known to the general public.

mother_noah

A few years ago my daughter was working with a disadvantaged young mums group when a girl came in all excited because she had just found a travel cot for her baby daughter left out side a house with a note on it offering it to any one who wanted it. My daughter could not stop herself from smiling because she knew the house must have been mine ! I still do it now !

cyber-kisses

you cant take from a council run dump or a private run dump you can be prosecuted my father is an area manager for gmwd (greater manchester waste disposal) and if anybody is caught taking things the poliec can be called it is classed as stealing. Many employes have be dismissed because fo this. sorry!

beadysam

Yes, please be careful. Someone who lives locally got arrested for taking some garden chairs from the dump - it ended up all over the national press and was eventually dropped, but non the less it was an ordeal for her.:eek:

http://www.eveningleader.co.uk/news/Wrexham-ecowarrior-arrested-over-39theft39.4115723.jp

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/7413434.stm

However, I'm pretty sure that if you see someone with something in their hands about to put it in the skip, and you can persude them to offer it to you (rather than you asking for it outright) then it is perfectly okay to take the items. Once something is in the skips though, it is local council property and its theft to take it - unless they have some other scheme in place....

Horace

I have had rugs from council bins before now - two large rugs (a bit marked) were piled up on top of one of the bins by my flat so I snaffled them - my view is that if I didnt then somebody else would. I have noticed that where my bins are located (private flats) folks are always dumping stuff by them:mad: but I have found some useful bits and would rather use them myself than let them go to the tip plus it saves my landlord from shifting them.

If you can make friends with the dustmen too, that helps because some are likely to look out for things for you that have been dumped.

I love freecycle but very often miss out on stuff - people are like hawks and I am convinced that they look at nothing else all day because that would explain why something gets offered and immediately it goes.

kim_ley

abdulawwal wrote: »

I think the friend I know from High Wycombe did the same thing, as he is in business too. He must have registered himself and obtained all sorts of things! He didn't sell any of the items... just reeused them and gave to friends and family.

{Abu}

you say in your first post that he then used or RESOLD them.

abdulawwal

Sorry... he sold, for a very small fee, to his friends and family! And not the electrical items.

He actually told me he took a laptop once which was ancient and barely functioned! Also, we are talking about this happening almost two years ago!

Thank you all, for the advice and comments.

{Abu}

tinkerbell1978

haha this thread reminds me of my last trip to the dump i kept saying why did someone throw that out but i didnt take anything as i didnt think you where allowed but i have to say it was a very amusing trip as we were about to leave a young lad pulled up in a car next to us and started getting out all girly mags to dump and naughty videos he clearly got himself a girlfriend haha but the funniest thing was the minute the lad drove out of the dump the worker there flicked through the mags and scanned the videos and kept them for himself he had the biggest grin on his face and i laughed all the way home hahaha