A bi-weekly talk show by The Restart Project, plus a monthly documentary series produced by brilliant podcaster Dave Pickering, based on fixing triumphs, heartbreaks and wisdom shared at our community repair events – called Restart Parties – here in London. We go into real depth about good and bad design, obstacles to repair of electronics, emotional aspects of ownership, environmentally irresponsible business models, and the “end of life” of our gadgets. This podcast is for you if you'd like to fix your relationship with electronics. Let’s rethink, restart.
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Restart Radio: selling and buying secondhand electronics
Our mission at The Restart Project is encourage people to keep things for longer. But we are realistic. Sometimes the best option, to keep a gadget in use for longer, is to find it a new owner. Or instead of buying new, to buy somebody else’s gadget.
You won’t hear much about this anywhere. It’s funny because in the media, there is the constant push to upgrade, buy new, get new features, but very little advice on what to do with the perfectly functioning gadget to be replaced.
And even your local authority is too busy dealing with what it deems “waste” to give much attention to this.
But reuse and resale helps keeps value circulating, prevents gadgets from being shredded prematurely or being sent to landfill.
We talked about how to give away, or buy and sell electronics in this episode, going through each of the categories we see at Restart Parties: computer and home office equipment, electronic gadgets, home entertainment equipment and kitchen and bathroom appliances.
Links
- Our post “Unrepaired” – with links to Freecycle, Freegle, Streetlife, etc
- Open Workshop Network‘s map of London
- CeX (UK) Buy & Sell electronics
- Ebay consumer electronics buying guides
- Our advice in wiping your data
- Check the history of a used device or mobile phone with CheckMEND
- Donate to Computer Aid, British Heart Foundation and Emmaus
- Sonos on the cheap: How Chromecast Audio breathes new life into old speakers
[Feature image “Marantz 2220” by Flickr user Markus Reichmann is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0]
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