Enjoy my two-day adventure in Sarasota, Florida to clean out a condo!
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Working and Winning in Wisconsin!
Come 110 miles northwest of Chicago to Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, as I single-handedly clean out a storage unit for a woman. Included in the unit were some Green Bay Packers memorabilia (including an Aaron Rodgers jersey) and some coins that I later sold in Chicago for $650!
I used a pickup truck to do this job over the course of two days. It worked well! Enjoy the before and after video, plus the man who practices his golf game right there in the corn fields!
Cashing In In Chicago!
Come with me 110 miles south of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin to Arlington Heights, Illinois, where I clean out a home for a wonderful lady. The highlight of the trip is my stopping in at a coin dealer to sell some coins I found inside a plastic container from the storage unit I cleaned out a few days earlier in Wisconsin! I got $650 from the sale!
I even grabbed a couple of plumbers who were stuck in the rain to come help me get the final treadmill out of the lady’s house and up her stairs! She was so relieved!
I also used the dumpsters (with permission) at the Chicago Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, thanks to my new friend, Temple Engineer, Matt. What a help he was!
Eye on the Road to Iowa!
Join me as I drive 600 miles from Nashville to Des Moines, Iowa because my flight was three hours late out of Dulles! See the before and after videos of the job I did in Story City, Iowa. Come with me to the scrap dealer (Mike’s Minis) in Ames, plus see the first-ever recycling center to turn trash into energy, located in Ames! (They started doing this back in 1975!)
Drop in with me on the Iowa State Fair after the job is completed, plus see a spiritual highlight for me of stopping in Nauvoo, Illinois on the way up (2 A.M.) and in Carthage, Illinois on the way back (9 P.M.!)
A great video that shows the importance of keeping a commitment, even if it means you have to drive over 600 miles one way to keep an appointment with a client. See the Butter Cow at the Iowa State Fair and meet Mean Gene, the prize-winning bull at the Fair (3060 pounds!)
Plus, more corn than the eye can see. All in Eye on the Road to Iowa!
Nothing But Net in North Carolina!
Join Warren and me as we drive 400 miles south to Hickory and then Charlotte, North Carolina to do two jobs this week! Meet Bill also, who is fabulous!
Junk Refund Radio Show, June 22, 2023
Find out how some people get some of the “junk” out of their lives by visiting this huge three-day convention in Salt Lake City every September! It’s an amazing event, being held September 21-23 in Salt Lake City this year. I will see you there!
Enjoy my interview with Dan Farr, CEO of FanX in Salt Lake City! A great friend and entrepreneur, who is all about making his convention (the largest in the state of Utah) a great experience for the fans. Thanks, Dan!
https://bbsradio.com/archive-description/audio/listen/271049
Junk Refund Radio Show, Episode 1: June 15, 2023
Enjoy our debut radio show, recorded from a customer’s driveway in Potomac, Maryland on Thursday, June 15, 2023! Here, we tell the story of 1-800-Junk-Refund and what we do for customers. Purchase our $79 radio show voucher (normally $229, good for a pickup truck of junk removal) from our RADIO SHOW page!
Listen live each Thursday at 3 PM EST on bbsradio.com! Enjoy!
https://bbsradio.com/podcast/junk-refund-show-june-15-2023
A Test of Integrity
The Situation
Today we went to the scrap metal yard, as we usually do. The process there is simple:
- Enter the yard and pull up on the scale with your truckload of metal.
- Get weighed.
- Drive around the yard to the scrap metal pile and throw your metal off.
- Get back on the scale and get weighed again.
- Go to the cashier’s window and get paid.
The Test of Integrity
Today everything was normal here until we got to step #5. That’s when they gave us $250 we shouldn’t have gotten. When the lady behind the cashier’s window entered our “empty” weight, she entered it as “640” instead of “6440.” With an initial weight of 6,660 pounds, it means she credited us with dropping off over 6,000 pounds of metal that we didn’t drop off. We received $288 from the window when it should have been $34.
My corrected scrap metal ticket, down $250 from what it was at first.
I could have driven off and no one would have known. After all, it was there mistake, right? But I knew, and I knew that God knew, and I had to make it right. I contacted a supervisor before leaving the yard and showed him the mistake. I gave him all the money back then received in return my $34.
The Joy I Felt
When I pulled out of the yard with the correct amount of cash in my hand, I knew I had passed the “test of integrity.” It felt right. I was happy. What’s more, my credibility with the scrap metal people took an upward jump.
I was much happier knowing I had done the right thing than I would have been with the extra $250. My integrity is worth more than that. Today I was able to prove it.
From Arcade to Money Made!
I love to haul away vintage arcade machines. They’re popular among collectors as long as they work.
More than that, I love to make money for our clients when we sell their good stuff and give them money back. That’s popular among everybody, as long as they work.
The Popeye Arcade Machine Job
A nice lady in Great Falls, Virginia contacted us to haul away some of her stuff. Among that stuff was a vintage Popeye Nintendo arcade machine. She paid us $250 to haul away two pickup truck loads of stuff, using our Speedpass link on our website. The normal price for this amount of hauling is $350…
So on the first visit we hauled away some junk, including some carpet, a chair, and some miscellaneous stuff. We left the arcade machine to haul away on the next visit but we did take some photos of it so we could put it up for sale.
Thank You Facebook Marketplace!
I checked online and found this same machine selling for about $400. One guy was asking $2,450, but no one went after it. So I listed her machine on Facebook Marketplace for $795 after plugging the machine in and verifying that it worked. Within 48 hours I had sold it for my asking price.
Cash Back for the Customer on the Arcade Machine
She got $280 back within 48 hours after only spending $250 on her junk removal job!
Whenever we sell something that we’re hauling away for a customer, they get 35 percent of the sales price as long as we sell it for more than $20. Our client’s share on this one sale was $280! She was thrilled to get the money plus we still have other items to sell!
Welcome to the next generation of junk removal–cash back when we sell your good stuff! (We must be eating our spinach…)
CHILE BIKE SILLY
Meet my new friend from Chile. He came here two months ago with his family, but not on a bike. He has four kids, ages six to 14. He needs a bicycle for his wife.
A Bike for His Wife
A bike for his wife!
His wife needs a new bicycle. He saw ours on Craigslist. He buys it!
He is looking for another one for his 14-year-old. Also, they want a set of outdoor furniture for their deck.
Furthermore, the customer who had us haul away the bicycle gets 35% of the sales price, or $28. Hence, everybody wins!
This is a good example of how we work. Instead of throwing the bicycle into a landfill, we sell it to someone who could use it. So, it’s a win for the junk removal client, it’s also a win for the buyer, and it’s a win for our company.
We enjoy seeing the smiles on the faces of the people who had this hauled away. We also enjoy seeing the smiles on the faces of the people who buy our items. Finally, we enjoy seeing the smiles on the faces of the people who get a refund back.
The retail price of this bicycle is around $300. His wife gets it for $80. So, that’s one happy wife!
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