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Old 11-17-2004, 11:02 PM
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A friend of mine that goes to Rs a lot was told that a good way to aquire xmod parts was to go dumpster diving after store hours because he said that most of the times when people bring there cars back in because of something being wrong with them that they just throw em in the garbage. I was cuirous if this was true and if so how many of you would be willing to swim through garbage for xmod parts
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Old 11-17-2004, 11:19 PM
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do it!.... just take a shower after....
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Old 11-17-2004, 11:19 PM
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I say go ahead as long as your not swimming in tuna fish and banana peels, I have to dumpster dive alot at work, but thats usually cause i throw soething away i wasnt supposed to lol
But i mean if you found a 10 dollar bill in a dumpster youd go get it, so why not a useful peice worth 10 bucks
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Old 11-17-2004, 11:47 PM
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I figured that it would be best to go like on a saturday because that seems like the busy day when everyone is not in school bringing there parts back but im not sure if there is certaint times that they throw things away or what, would hate to get dirty for nothin
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you never know if you find parts then you can sell to people on line
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Old 11-18-2004, 12:22 AM
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nah i wouldnt want to sell them I have too many different things I want to do so I need the parts for myself
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well since radio shack isn't focused on food and liquids, diving in their dumpster for parts wouldn't be bad- mostly just paper and packaging materials. Although places like jewel throw out things neater than you'd expect. I know a girl who lives close to chicago who doesn't pay for food at all. She goes to the jewel dumpster and picks out things that they trow out. Ya know, most products have a 'sell by' date, but just because it's past the sell by date doesn't mean its expired. 95% of the food they trow away is still good- except for dairy products. Same with the dunkin donuts- though they caught on and threw coffee grounds in with the donuts (eew), but brush 'em off and they're still good....

i dunno, i'd wanna go dumpster diving atleast once... more if it's fun.... especially if you find some good stuff. I'd do it in a rs dumpster
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yea it's true RS is for electronics and all that but the peepz do hav lunch breaks
and the RS's r usually in plaza's w/ a bunch of other places so u would run into some nasty stuff(eww)
plus theres a buch of dumpsters so what do u do? dive into all of them?
i dunno
and what type of dumpsters yall tlkin bout
the ones with the flip lids on top or with the sliding window type thing on the side?
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lol, cross your fingers and hope you dive into the right one
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well I scoped out the one I am thinkin about and its radioshack only its not in a shopping plaza
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niiice idea homie
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YEA
I'm sure everyone wants to know if it works
so make sure to keep this post updated
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ok I am probably gonna go either tomorrow or saturday one maybe bring a change of clothes and a flashlight depending on how many bags are in the trash I may just empty the whole things take it home and rummage through it. I have gloves also
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lol that is the best idea i have ever heard, ill prob go at like 10 tonight
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you guys aree reely desprate
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im not really desperate but I am a firm believer in why pay when you can get it for free. I can get my clean smell back but I cant get that money back I wasted on a part that someone else threw away last week
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Yeah and its just cool to get that feeling when you find something and your like omg i just found this lol
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good idea
thats kinda the same reason that i use ebay lot


i dont think my RS has a dumpster behind it
i think the little chain of stores next to it share one huge dumpster

so if i was to do that id be in there for ever
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I'm pretty sure you'll find nothing, and your friend is most likely duping you. There's a small chance, but I'm 98% sure the stuff you return to RS gets sent back to the company. Let us know how it goes though.
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