<div dir="ltr">As Paul said we're more likely to recycle than reuse it, which makes both Paul and I sad. That is a good use for the machine Joe, so you're to be congratulated for reusing it instead of just junking it. We do get a few hobbyists who come in, but as B.S. mentioned it's pretty rare (we're usually overjoyed when someone makes good use of hardware we'd normally recycle).<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Paul Nijjar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
This is largely correct.<br>
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We are willing to sell laptops in various states of disrepair to those<br>
who know what they are getting into. The main caveat is that any hard<br>
drives we sell need to be wiped.<br>
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Average members of the public will get mad even if a mouse button is<br>
working imperfectly, never mind broken screens. So we won't put such<br>
laptops on the sales shelves.<br>
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On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 03:26:12PM -0700, B. S. wrote:<br>
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> Problem appears to be, from what I can tell, that Working Centre is<br>
> looking to sell such (even if only a nominal charge), and the<br>
> hobbyists that would only be interested in such hardware, or uses as<br>
> you suggest, don't plentifully walk into Computer Recycling. Use<br>
> even for kids or teenagers seems problematic, given the low power<br>
> hardware.<br>
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> Would appreciate being corrected if I'm misunderstanding things.<br>
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