6 dreamcasts found in the dumpster behind gamestop

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this happened literally 5 years ago, but now that i'm posting here i figure i'll post my bragging. i used to work in a mall and was trolling around the dumpster that gamestop uses. they had 6 dreamcast systems with various stickers on them.. "won't turn on", "power on but no video", "dead", etc. all of the issues seemed true on testing, but swapping out parts from one to the other, my friend and i wound up with 4 working dreamcast systems, a few controllers, dc modems, and maybe a memory card or two. i still have the nicest of the dreamcasts - we sold the rest on ebay. would have been funny to trade them inf or store credit :lol:

ahh the days of dumpster diving
 
That's almost like finding a baby in the trash. Remember the sensational 80s when there would be babies found in dumpsters of motels after Prom.
 
[quote name='dopa345']Did you tell your buyers though that they were found in refuse?[/QUOTE]

i've heard pletny of great dumpster diving stories.. i mean a lot of stores can't get rid of it and if they can't get rid of it they need to make room for more stock they just throw them out.... whenever i buy used gaming equipment (especialy systems) I go over them with these disinfecting wipes..

i wouldn't refuse a system if it worked.. who cares if it was in a dumpster.. heh if it was a mall dumpster that wasn't used for food it was probably the cleanest one ther with mostly just bags and boxes in them...

i would have taken them back in for credit.. even though you get more money off them on ebay heh good score.
 
[quote name='-Phantom-']What a waste... They should be donated to children in need.[/QUOTE]


yes, broken dreamcasts will do poor children a lot of good. :lol:
 
My apartment complex has a lot of deadbeat tenants that just take off and leave their stuff behind. The staff legally has to throw anything left over away, but I've been here so long, and know the maintenace staff, so they always ask me first before dumping stuff. Stuff I've got over the years: 51" rear projection TV from early 90's (still using it), Harmon Kardon receiver, an old Marantz receiver that I ebayed for like $400 (I get lots of stereo equipment actually), a box of about 50 dvds, tons of computer items, not much game stuff (1 or 2 N64 systems) but shit, it's free.
 
Problem was that dumpster diving used to be a popular thing to do after-hours at the mall nearby for quite a while. Since there were no restaurants using one or two of them people never had to deal with any rotting food or stenches and most stores just chucked out obsolete products in their original boxes or whatnot. And since these weren't dumpsters with compacting capabilities...well, most of the time people just had to grab a box or two and it would be like Christmas in July.

But nowadays it's all about the massive dumpsters and compactors, combined with almost every store initiating a "don't even consider giving away garbage or your ass will be fired yesterday" policy of some sort. It's sort of assinine in the way that we're chucking out at least $100 to $200 worth of cardboard each day as trash, not to mention products that are still usable but out of the system, but write-offs are write-offs and I am in no position to chirp about stupidity.

Shame, too, since EB used to chuck pristine displays and setups, not to mention posters and shirts (still wrapped up) so some people made out like damned bandits.
 
And there's a difference between a mall or EB/GS dumpster, and a McDonald's or something dumpster.
Throwing it out is easier than trying to donate it. Plus there's potential for fraud with donating (it's there with tossing it as well, of course).
My grandparents owned a self-storage company, whenever someone didn't pay their bills he'd open it up and let the family go through it. My brother and I slept on bunkbeds we got from there for years.
 
[quote name='Kapwanil']Problem was that dumpster diving used to be a popular thing to do after-hours at the mall nearby for quite a while. Since there were no restaurants using one or two of them people never had to deal with any rotting food or stenches and most stores just chucked out obsolete products in their original boxes or whatnot. And since these weren't dumpsters with compacting capabilities...well, most of the time people just had to grab a box or two and it would be like Christmas in July.

But nowadays it's all about the massive dumpsters and compactors, combined with almost every store initiating a "don't even consider giving away garbage or your ass will be fired yesterday" policy of some sort. It's sort of assinine in the way that we're chucking out at least $100 to $200 worth of cardboard each day as trash, not to mention products that are still usable but out of the system, but write-offs are write-offs and I am in no position to chirp about stupidity.

Shame, too, since EB used to chuck pristine displays and setups, not to mention posters and shirts (still wrapped up) so some people made out like damned bandits.[/quote]

That is quite the shame, however, the publishers give them credit, yadda yadda. But, smart GS store employees just hand me the guides and other items they're not supposed to sell and risk their jobs over inadvertantly selling.
 
I remember back when I was about 10-12 years old. Before Chuck E Cheese used to cut their tickets when you redeemed them, they used to just chuck the redeemed tickets in the garbage and toss them in a dumpster behind the restaurant. Well one day I noticed a clear bag with tickets in it, I pulled out 2 garbage bags full of tickets (with one or two drink containers in them, so 90% of the tickets were fine). I must've had something like 100k+ tickets because I got all the prizes from the wall.

After a few months of that I noticed that they started cutting the tickets lol.
 
[quote name='lurknomore']That's almost like finding a baby in the trash. Remember the sensational 80s when there would be babies found in dumpsters of motels after Prom.[/QUOTE]
Hmm, were there that many people timing births for prom night?
 
Several years ago a cousin of mine used to work for Blockbuster. They'd throw out movies, games, and practically evertyhing else old. For about a week or two he was taking the stuff, but then they started locking that dumpsters, not that it is hard to break into, but you know they are serious then. My aunt takes old x360 cases when they throw 'em out.
 
[quote name='nwaugh']Hmm, were there that many people timing births for prom night?[/quote]

Wikipedia Melissa Drexler.
 
When I was in the 3rd or 4th grade me, my bro and a friend found a bunch of pornos in a dumpster when I lived in Germany. We made a fort with a giant cardboard box underneath this building and hid them inside. Went back like 4 weeks later and the fort was gone. I still wonder to this day if it was my friends who moved the fort or the people working there who got rid of it.

That reminds me of the time I went with a kid who hid pornos in this place where was lots of tar, and him pulling the pornos out of this like cement tube sticking out of the ground. He got tar on his arm and we threw the magazines with the tar on them back in and looked at the other ones. To this day I kind of wonder what kind of factory or whatever the hell that place was.

Man, being at a military base in Germany was pretty awesome now that I think back to my early childhood. Makes me kinda sad. Whatever. :/
 
I haven't really gotten much...

I got a few old displays and some old posters once upon a time from EB, but in the past few years, practically nothing at all.
 
I've never tried dumpster diving, though if the local GS stores weren't told to mutilate the damned guides, I might try it, since I think they have their own dumpster and don't share with the Subway 2 doors down.

Otherwise though, I'm SOL, since the other stores are in either malls or they're in a small shopping center(with a tattoo place right next door). And, if THEY share a dumpster. BLEH!
 
there's a whole subculture to dumpster diving - but i find that it's easiest in small towns, or college towns. Big cities are more difficult.
 
[quote name='iamthekiller']i remember when it used to be called THE prom. whose idea was it to call it prom?[/QUOTE]

I was wondering the same thing. On movies & TV they always say "prom", I just thought it was a regional thing.

In New Jersey, I went to THE prom.
 
i must admit i did a bit of dumpster diving, only for the purpose of getting DVD cases. i used to buy them on ebay but the shipping always kills the deals. so i found a site (ironically i think it was fatwallet) and has this thread dedicated to dvd dumpster diving. i ended up with 495 cases in 1 night, which most of them are the lord of the rings two towers red double cases. i never needed any replacement cases after that. i split it with my 2 other friends cause it was ALOT. i actually found 1 ps2 case that STILL had the ps2 game in it.

another time was at pottery barn. i used to work for a clothing retailer and right next to us was pottery barn and we share the same dumpster. their stuff are really nice. 1 day i was just throwing stuff out the dumpster and found 2 perfectly intact retro-looking phones. they worked good. i actually still use them. i ended be-friending the stock guy who normally tells me whats coming. i've gotten $300 worth mirrors (x4), $1000 worth tables, and $200 lamp fixtures.. it was endless. 2 years ago victoria secret threw out their holiday personal care including holiday cds and stuffed animals. i made a hefty $300 out of it haha.

i've always wanted to check out the dumpsters that eb/gs uses. 1 thing i know for sure is that if they cannot find the game and they still have the case, they usually throw them out. this is how i found bust a groove 2 for the ps1 they couldnt find the game so i asked to buy the case and they said just keep it and explained to me that its gonna end up in trash anyways.
 
[quote name='-Phantom-']What a waste... They should be donated to children in need.[/QUOTE]

Because that kids really need... games.... never mind food and shelter... give em a Dreamcast. ;)
 
[quote name='lurknomore']That's almost like finding a baby in the trash. Remember the sensational 80s when there would be babies found in dumpsters of motels after Prom.[/QUOTE]

Umm, it takes nine months to have a baby, lurk. You can't go to a motel on prom night and just make a baby to leave there the next morning.
 
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