Comments on: Declutter Your Home Office – Part 4

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:25:08 +0000

If It Doesn’t Work And No One Wants It…

Another great resource is Cash for Electronic Scrap USA (http://cashforelectronicscrapusa.com/). Instead of trying to fix your items you can get cash for electronics and computer scrap.

By: Computer Recycling

Computer Recycling — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:49:39 +0000

One man’s trash is another’s treasure! We are a computer recycler at the level where we pay scrap prices for the materil. Depending on the amount of material (hardware, chips, CPU, memory) is in the unit, the more amount, the more money around 3-5 bucks. Some people are more than happy to receive that amount, and yet there are others still looking for resell prices on damaged goods. Good information in regards to telling the difference on resell types.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:46:01 +0000

Please add http://www.eReplacementParts.com to your “If it doesn’t work and no one wants it” section. We provide replacement parts from over 70 name brands, but specialize in providing the best repair resources on the web freely to visitors.

By: TOMAS

TOMAS — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:55:29 +0000

@Josh – Thanks for the tips and glad you enjoyed the site!

By: Josh - E-waste and Television Disposal Advocate

Josh - E-waste and Television Disposal Advocate — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:12:46 +0000

If you’re worried about data security, do a “clean erase” on your data. Google for “Secure” deletion software. It’s free and easy to use!

Nice site,

Josh

By: TOMAS

TOMAS — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:38:18 +0000

@Winning Startups – You bring up a good point, and it’s something I should have mentioned since I’m pretty sure other people would run into the same dilemma.

What I ended up doing was removing and keeping the hard drives from the computers I donated. There are kits you can buy online or from electronic retailers that allow you to turn your hard drive into an external USB or Firewire drive – like this Rocketfish enclosure. This way, you can still access the files on the hard drive or reformat it and use it as a spare back up hard drive.

There are also many utilities out on the web that you can use to erase your hard drive if you’re not interested in removing it from your computer, although no hard drive can be truly ‘erased’ so it’s probably a safer bet to remove your hard drive and replace it with a new one if necessary.

By: Winning Startups

Winning Startups — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:04:23 +0000

I always worry about donating computers because I don’t know how to get all my personal stuff off it.
Love the look of your site and the logo/landing page is fantastic. Thanks for telling me about the link problem on my website.

By: eCycle Group

eCycle Group — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:35:50 +0000

Please add eCycle Group to your “If It Works And It�s Worth Something�” list. We purchase over 1200 cell phone and 800 printer cartridge models.

http://www.ecyclegroup.com

By: Lightning

Lightning — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:22:33 +0000

Thanks for the list of sites. This is very helpful. Yep, we all need to clean up every once in a while to keep us organized.