Recycling electrical goods. Have to pay.

Rock_King

Purchased double oven, microwave, hob & filter hood from electrical store to be delivered. They will remove my old items for a fee of £10 per item. Looking this up I see they can charge £10 'transport fee' which is fair enough but if transporting four items in the same van at the same time should it be £10 or £40? They say £40 so I've paid £10 to take away oven (it's big) and the rest I'll put in my van and take to the local store, which I pass daily.

frugal_mike

They can charge whatever they want. They're offering a service, and you can choose to accept it or not. They have to work to load and unload the van, plus the items take up space in the van that they can't use for other items.

Rock_King

It's not a service, it's a legal regulation that they have to take them. From the gov.uk site "You must offer the in-store service for free. You can charge to cover transport costs if you’re collecting items from customers’ homes." Transport cost to them is the same for 1,2,3 or 4 items especially as they are dropping off 4 items.

mije1983

Rock_King wrote: »

It's not a service, it's a legal regulation that they have to take them. From the gov.uk site "You must offer the in-store service for free. You can charge to cover transport costs if you’re collecting items from customers’ homes." Transport cost to them is the same for 1,2,3 or 4 items especially as they are dropping off 4 items.

This doesn't apply if they are a member of the DTS though. In which case frugal_mike is correct and they can charge what they please. What retailer is it?

Collabora

Rock_King wrote: »

the rest I'll put in my van and take to the local store, which I pass daily.

They will be taken to a distribution centre and not the local store, just like when you ordered the goods, they wont come from local store, they will come from a distribution centre

Collabora

Rock_King wrote: »

It's not a service, it's a legal regulation that they have to take them. From the gov.uk site "You must offer the in-store service for free. You can charge to cover transport costs if you’re collecting items from customers’ homes." Transport cost to them is the same for 1,2,3 or 4 items especially as they are dropping off 4 items.

this may help


Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE)

also this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Electrical_and_Electronic_Equipment_Directive

Laz123

We had an old washing machine, a fridge and a freezer to be thrown away and the local council were charging £14 per item. I put them out in the front garden in readiness of phoning them to arrange collection but the local scrap merchant who drives around picked them up one morning early before we had got up. Free.

Rock_King

Retailer is Currys. Scrap merchant sounds a good idea. To be honest I'm dumping a hood, built in microwave and hob all 15 years old but in very good condition.

bod1467

We had our old washing machine at the side of our house (inside the [unlocked] gate to our back garden) while we decided how the get rid of it. A few days later I came home from work and noticed it was gone; on asking SWMBO about it she said "It's gone?".

lushplus4

Anything metal I just leave in my driveway with a "free/scrap" sign on and it's usually gone within a couple of hours.

mttylad

Do not dump this stuff, if it works then there are plenty of others who will come & take it away from you to reuse it.

Look up your local Freegle group at https://www.ilovefreegle.org

The OP could have saved on the cost of getting the cooker removed too with this, plenty of people are after cookers.