I bought three Apple toners for $10 each off eBay with free local pickup. It's a good sized recycling place about a mile away from my mom's house. They had Beige G3 towers with lots of cards sitting right there, the guy wanted $30 each though. I saw a blue and white G3, a blue monitor, and a few other random bits. They are supposed to e-mail me with a list of stuff they have. It doesn't seem like a place where I can dig through stuff like the bastard recycler's place, this place has stuff stacked really high on pallets and the like, lots of mixed PCs and Macs. It might be a good source for some stuff assuming they actually e-mail me back.

I just have to be careful and establish that I will not be paying any rape prices. I ruined the chance of any more old PowerBooks at the bastard's place because I paid too much for the initial ones. $30 might be OK for a good condition/specs blue and white G3 because I can sell it for $49 in the store, but not a beige one that I have to sell for $39, $34 or even less.

I wonder how profitable a computer recycling outfit is. I've thought about renting a truck and holding a computer recycling drive like a lot of other places do, then taking out all the nice stuff (Apples, rare stuff, Pentium 4 or newer, etc.), and finding some other recycler who will take the rest for free. As long as I can load the rest of the stuff off for free somewhere, my only overhead is the $100 or so to rent the truck. I can also raid all the PC towers for memory that works in Macs, and any other Mac compatible parts.