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LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
02/05/09

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Razr V3? On the right carrier, or unlocked, it could be worth an easy $75"

::Runs across the halway::

Look, ive got 5,228 iDen phones!
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02/05/09

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A sledgehammer usually does the trick. Hooray! Battery acid!
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02/05/09

@baconbot: Who likes their ceviche corrosive?
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ScottRose
02/05/09

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I will gladly take devices off anyone's hands for free.

I will then add them to the boxes of random electronics shite I have filling my basement.

My wife will then ask me why in the hell I need that.

The circle of life continues.
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Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
02/05/09

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I wish they'd make it easier to recycle stuff. I'm sure there has to be money to make off of it. I have a vacuum, monitor, steam cleaner that really needs to go.
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02/05/09

@Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: That has to be one wild looking piece of machinery...
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ZLevee
02/05/09

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Ebay gets surprising results. Several years ago I sold a PCMCIA ethernet & 56K v92 modem combo card, used for a coupel of years, for the same price I had bought it for when new. Soemtimes people need old shit to match with other old shit, and they have no choice but to pay a decent amount if there's a little competition for old shit.
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02/05/09

@ZLevee: Yeah nothing is harder that getting your shit to match up.
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SJRNWT
02/05/09

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My RAZR V3c's screen broke on me. I think i'm going to take it apart and tinker around with it, then eventually I'll have it recycled.

:D I'm getting an HTC Touch now though!
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SJRNWT
02/05/09

@SJRNWT: *HTC Diamond
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02/05/09

@SJRNWT: I <3 my Pro, enjoy your Diamond!
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EBone
02/05/09

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Love the pic. My first cellphone and my current one, both facing off on each other.
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strider_mt2k
02/05/09

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I do like to say a few words over a piece that has done good service in it's time.

Our circa 1992 builder-grade dishwasher was spoken of fondly as it was hauled out.

-as opposed to the stove, which is of the same vintage and quality and burned/undercooked nearly everything for so long I thought my wife was to blame.

(I cook too, but EVERYTHING I make sucks.)

I do like to reflect on the life of a device when it goes.
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awtaylo
02/05/09

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As a bit of a pack rat, I tend to hold onto everything. Maybe it is time to let go. The extra space I gain will probably be worth the hopefully brief bout of separation anxiety.

Thanks for the tips.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/05/09

@awtaylo: Same here. I've 'retired' my old gadgets by shoving them into any available drawer or closet. I've thown out and 're-gifted' only a few things. Every so often I'll think, "why did I give that (or throw that) [insert gadget name here] away? I wish I kept it." Common sense usually kicks in by then and I realize that they're obsolete objects, but they were my obsolete objects dammit...!

"Oh what have I done, giving you away my precious Compaq 1800T. You were sniff..my first..sniff...my first laptop. I'm sorry. I'm sorry!!!"
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Kaiser-Machead
02/05/09

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This won't help scroungers who can't help but sift through old equipment in the office and suddenly say "OMG I totally need this double-ended power cable" "OH shit ethernet! I must have this!" "Who on earth would throw away a perfectly good Linksys ethernet switch?" and swipe RAM card after RAM card from old computers, yanking out PSU's, pulling the heads out of old VCR's, keeping any screw/bolt that isn't dethreaded(a lot) and whatever old case they can use.

Oh wow...

OK I'll brb, I just found a box full of NiCd batteries AND three prong adapters. FTMFW
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
02/05/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Damn, I just turned in a bunch of old Motorola Walkie-Talkie Ni-Cad/Mh batteries into Lowes. I wish I would have known.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
02/05/09

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I prefer to honor my gadgets like our ancient forefathers did. I place them ceremoniously upon a brick altar, after which, I set up a specially made tripod, and load a terracotta planter pot with holy thermite. I say a little prayer, then light that bitch up!

Drinking and singing songs of it's victories follows immediately afterwards.
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DNELI
02/05/09

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FAIL!!!

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ooops...

I meant first
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
02/05/09

@DNELI: You can try to beg for the Grimace to "retire" you with dignity. But in the end, your family and loved ones will discover your body after you have soiled yourself and the Grimace has opened the hidden comaprtment in your closet filled with Brazilian Necrophilia Canine Scat porn, and spread it around your broken body.
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OMG! Ponies!
02/05/09

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For cellphones, I prefer the old standby method of strapping an M80 to it and retreating to a safe distance.
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Kaiser-Machead
02/05/09

@OMG! Ponies!: My first T-610 had a run-in with a blender. Of course, said blender was not up to the task, and both the mangled phone and the broken blender went to someone who's more willing to make things go boom. Second T-610 is currently buried under sediment and refuse collecting at the mouth of the East River.
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cpt.snerd
02/05/09

@Kaiser-Machead: So i'm guess it was NOT a Blendtec Blender eh?
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Kaiser-Machead
02/05/09

@cpt.snerd: What am I? Made of money?
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02/05/09

@Kaiser-Machead: I had a T-610, it is still being used (by my old boss), who uses it as a knock-around phone when he is biking, its reasonably small and light, decent call quality, bluetooth (so he can use a headset while biking) and best of all if he drops it 'who cares?' (I gave it to him for free).

He doesn't seem to mind having to swap his sim card around...
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Kaiser-Machead
02/05/09

@bpapa9013: Whether or not it was T-Mobile's fault, the thing would drop the signal like crazy. When it works well, it's actually sublime for what it is. When it doesn't work, it's such a pain in the ass it makes me want to kill it twice before it hits the bottom of the trash can.
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