I saved $65 and advertised my old TV on Freecycle, and within minutes I had a flood of replies, and the old TV was picked up within an hour.

Freecycle is great for dropoffs and pickups at curbside or at public places...just not good for inside the home. I'm glad sushipup was able to give his/her TV to someone who really wanted it.

My TV was broken and not worth repairing. Otherwise I would've kept it.

Even if someone wanted a broken TV, Craigslist or Freecycle was out of the question because I couldn't risk letting strangers into my home. The TV was too heavy to carry to the curb and my husband wasn't home.

I did trust All Green. The person over the phone assured me that the people doing the pickup were trustworthy employees.

If I was going to pay, I wanted the greenest possible method of disposal I could find.

It wasn't free but it wasn't over $100 either. To me, it was worth the $$.

You are correct, my TV worked and there was someone else home. But I wouldn't be too confident about trusting strangers just because the person on the phone said the workers were "trustworthy".

Glad that pandorathecat found something that worked for her!

But $65 is too pricey for me... and probably for many others on this money-saving board.

Wow, guess we're lucky--we have a lot of free options for getting rid of old electronics. The county has free drop off sites. Last I heard, Goodwill would take them, as do several other charities that pick up.

It is a concern letting strangers into one's house (and like someone else, I would NOT trust some stranger on the phone who 'assured me they were trustworthy') but there's always someone you KNOW who is willing to do you a favor and move something larger to the curb.

Usually, I find, if you can put something like that at at the curb, the night before trash day, with a sign that says 'free' it will disappear pretty quickly.

I've used Freecycle before to donate useful things. Instead of people coming to my curbside, I've dropped off moving boxes in front of people's homes..with their permission of course and in their presence.

I agree. I shouldn't automatically trust anyone over the phone.
All Green is not local to my area. To me, the risk was just slightly higher than having someone from a local business enter my home. They showed up with an Enterprise moving truck.

My house is sort of out of the way, in a relatively young residential area governed by an HOA. Even if we're allowed to leave stuff curbside, residents in my neighborhood simply wouldn't be interested in an abandoned TV. It would just sit there...until it slowly disintegrated from the sun...in a thousand years.
Around here, there are no scavengers, just burglars.

"Usually, I find, if you can put something like that at at the curb, the night before trash day, with a sign that says 'free' it will disappear pretty quickly."

Sometimes the opposite happens. The sign would disappear or blow away and a garbage pile would start forming around the TV until the pile takes up half a city block. Like sink holes, illegal dumping grounds just seem to form out of nowhere. :)

The broken TV was a big fat heavy 60" dinosaur with probably no salvageable copper.

Because All Green charged so much lower than the others, it seemed like a good idea to mention it on Money Saving Tips forum for the benefit of people who might unexpectedly find themselves in a similar situation. On second thought though, $65 does seem pricey for this board!

I live in Toronto and have recently been taking a lot of stuff to Goodwill. They have restrictions on certain items now - TVs being one of them - they often don't want them - or computer monitors. We used to put stuff out on the street - nothing I would be ashamed to put out - and it would be gone very quickly. Now, people are very afraid of bed bugs - and are not so quick to pick up things from the street. We do not have bed bugs - and hopefully won't - but you never know where they are. We are supposedly allowed to put certain types of furniture out for pick-up on garbage day - our taxes pay for this service - yet often the stuff is left sitting there. And I put out nothing that should not be picked up - next week will be another "test". I hope it goes.