What to do with useless piece of JUNK?

barnicles

I have a Jerrold for analog MMDS

Chorus switched off the signal last year and wont take equipment

Any uses for it

Solair

Eh, here are a few options:

1) Retro 1970s electronic bookends?
2) Door stop
3) Elaborate paperweight
4) Open your own obsolete electronics museum
5) Give it as a present to an unsuspecting relative who knows nothing about technology and don't explain what it is.

I think they may have to take it back as they do own it and they can't just abandon waste electronic items under the WEEE directive. It's a bit of a cop-out not to collect their old garbage.

You could bring it to your local dump and they'll accept it for recycling for free.

Check : http://www.epa.ie/whatwedo/sustain/mgt/weee/ for more information

barnicles

Solair wrote: »

Eh, here are a few options:

1) Retro 1970s electronic bookends?
2) Door stop
3) Elaborate paperweight
4) Open your own obsolete electronics museum
5) Give it as a present to an unsuspecting relative who knows nothing about technology and don't explain what it is.

I think they may have to take it back as they do own it and they can't just abandon waste electronic items under the WEEE directive. It's a bit of a cop-out not to collect their old garbage.

You could bring it to your local dump and they'll accept it for recycling for free.

I meant a technical use...

Solair

None whatsoever - it's a 1970s/80s cable descrambler. There's nothing left on air or on cable for it to descramble. So, it's about as much use as a 405 line television set.

watty

It's theirs and they are obliged to take it back. It's illegal under WEEE to bin it.

It's no use for anything.

Solair

It's a bit of a cheap way of avoiding recycling charges if they're just abandoning equipment like that.

Not very acceptable behaviour, considering that every electrical retailer in the country's obliged to collect old equipment that they didn't even provide themselves on a like-for-like basis.

subway

Solair wrote: »

It's a bit of a cheap way of avoiding recycling charges if they're just abandoning equipment like that.

Not very acceptable behaviour, considering that every electrical retailer in the country's obliged to collect old equipment that they didn't even provide themselves on a like-for-like basis.

are you sure their obliged to collect it. i thought they were only aboliged to accept it?

Solair

Well, it's normal practice to take it away on delivery of a new appliance. I would assume that the same applies to a new set top box. You can't just leave the old one there for the customer to dispose of. Technically speaking, UPC still own the box. The customer has every right to ask them to come and take it away. Otherwise, it becomes abandoned property and there is a legal process for dealing with that i.e. you have to keep it for X years and so on.

GerardKeating

subway wrote: »

are you sure their obliged to collect it. i thought they were only aboliged to accept it?

I am not even sure if they are covered by the WEEE regulations, since they did not sell it, they are not a retailer of electricial goods...

BaconZombie

Your contract states that any equipment remains their property, so I'd say put it in a box with alot of rubbish and stones and post it without a stamp to :

Clodagh Strahan,
UPC,
PO Box 321,
Dublin 3.