"Quite a bit…"
The dump pays (maybe 4 €, max 4 times/year, in the form of a discount on the yearly garbage tax) if you take large appliances and electronics there on your own which pretty much killed the free (unwiped) PCs and monitors outside the bins…
[Not a thing at a tourist town along the coast where we have an house, but basically no market for computers there - I posted the windows of the local computer shop about a year ago - and interesting (real glass) TVs often get vandalized before I can grab them!]
Then we have at least 3 major classified sites, quite friendly to sellers and buyers alike (good value but always optional own brand shipping+insurance, no fees for a non-sponsored ad) so everyone can get to play scalper 😁
And indeed we get some interesting ads, like a wall of maybe 70 towers with a title like "286 386 486 Pentium 1 2 3 4" with zero further details or prices, but few and very far from here - closest old PCs are 286 laptops for 80+ eurobux, ehhhh
Finally we have electronics fairs, the more commercial kind (Forlì, Montichiari, Bologna, etc) with little to no retro presence (but sometimes you get nice surprises like a seller with maybe 20 PCI graphics cards and 20 ISA sound cards, guess of course what I'm still looking for…)
and the more C2C markets like Marzaglia (mainly about radio, ham and ordinary, but welcoming certain kinds of "off topic", like old computers but not disks, very fair entry fees even for sellers) — as above, you can find something and more than in those categories, but I suspect it's not what it once was 🙁
winuser3162 wrote on 2024-04-11, 19:05:
i have a friend who has access to an ewaste through a local university and the things he finds is insane.
Same, but of course he's halfway across the country 😀 🙁