Congrats on the SE/30!
As for the recycling center - F'em. It is obvious one of workers or kid thereof old the boss, "Well, I can sell them at Ebay for $300 a shot!" which is BS. I been through something similar with Advanced Recovery long ago, when a friend owned it. It was when he sold his recycling business for $30M (I kid you not!) the new owner stated that he could sell anything there at full market value - what ever that meant. Personally I know that the Gov't of India used to go there and buy cargo shipping containers of electronic junk at $1M per container, which they use to recycle the parts and teach at their tech schools; they used empty out the yard 3X a year! But my friend literally gave me stuff off the pile, all he asks is that I did not get hurt climbing about the mountains of stuff that was there! Most of my Macs were from this place, and at the time all working! Further more, he made money taking stuff - I think it was $8/pound or something lie that. Bloomberg Inc. was one of his biggest customers - emptying out their offices of their computers when they upgraded every 9 months... at $8/pound! So he (like most recycling centers) were making money both ways! But the new owner, Shit... he went greedy. Like you, I could not touch a Mac unless the "Boss looked at it" and it was over (back then around 2000) $150 - and that was for a Plus! One time he had a shit-load - thousands(!) - of LCs from the local school district that upgraded to G3s, and I tried to buy one, he wanted $400 for the box - KB and mon was $300 extra and he went into the LC and pulled the HD and ethernet card out of it demanding another $200 for each! I told him to take it and shove it. That was the last time I went there.
Business is business, that's one thing I understand. But when business owners want to give their small customers the shaft because they think they can get more elsewhere, they can go screw themselves into a light socket and flick the switch up and down all they want! they lose me as their customers, and I usually bring many friends with me to buy so they can have more business but no more. They lose a lot with me.
As for the recycling center - F'em. It is obvious one of workers or kid thereof old the boss, "Well, I can sell them at Ebay for $300 a shot!" which is BS. I been through something similar with Advanced Recovery long ago, when a friend owned it. It was when he sold his recycling business for $30M (I kid you not!) the new owner stated that he could sell anything there at full market value - what ever that meant. Personally I know that the Gov't of India used to go there and buy cargo shipping containers of electronic junk at $1M per container, which they use to recycle the parts and teach at their tech schools; they used empty out the yard 3X a year! But my friend literally gave me stuff off the pile, all he asks is that I did not get hurt climbing about the mountains of stuff that was there! Most of my Macs were from this place, and at the time all working! Further more, he made money taking stuff - I think it was $8/pound or something lie that. Bloomberg Inc. was one of his biggest customers - emptying out their offices of their computers when they upgraded every 9 months... at $8/pound! So he (like most recycling centers) were making money both ways! But the new owner, Shit... he went greedy. Like you, I could not touch a Mac unless the "Boss looked at it" and it was over (back then around 2000) $150 - and that was for a Plus! One time he had a shit-load - thousands(!) - of LCs from the local school district that upgraded to G3s, and I tried to buy one, he wanted $400 for the box - KB and mon was $300 extra and he went into the LC and pulled the HD and ethernet card out of it demanding another $200 for each! I told him to take it and shove it. That was the last time I went there.
Business is business, that's one thing I understand. But when business owners want to give their small customers the shaft because they think they can get more elsewhere, they can go screw themselves into a light socket and flick the switch up and down all they want! they lose me as their customers, and I usually bring many friends with me to buy so they can have more business but no more. They lose a lot with me.