A few years ago my son found a guy who worked for a home electronics store. He was moving and wanted to throw away many "unrepairable" audio items.
My son got a truck and took the load to my daughter's house.
Many cheap stereo systems, CD players, MP3 players, digital cameras and cell phones. Hundreds of wall-wart DC power adapters, headphones, rechargeable batteries and more.
Some worked fine. I think people return them when they don't like the colour.
Some had a small scratch. Some were dead. One very expensive high power home theater amplifier was smashed because it was dropped.
There were 4 or 5 MP3 players of the same kind and they have an 8G mini hard drive. I took parts from the defective ones to fix one and updated its firmware. It even came with a carrying case, rechargeable batteries and headphones.
Another good find
The morning after Halloween I found an open camera bag at the side of the road with a 4G USB memory stick but no camera. The memory has hundreds of the latest songs on it (MP3).
My son got a truck and took the load to my daughter's house.
Many cheap stereo systems, CD players, MP3 players, digital cameras and cell phones. Hundreds of wall-wart DC power adapters, headphones, rechargeable batteries and more.
Some worked fine. I think people return them when they don't like the colour.
Some had a small scratch. Some were dead. One very expensive high power home theater amplifier was smashed because it was dropped.
There were 4 or 5 MP3 players of the same kind and they have an 8G mini hard drive. I took parts from the defective ones to fix one and updated its firmware. It even came with a carrying case, rechargeable batteries and headphones.
Another good find
The morning after Halloween I found an open camera bag at the side of the road with a 4G USB memory stick but no camera. The memory has hundreds of the latest songs on it (MP3).