There is a $25 fee for recycling items that have a screen (TVs and computer monitors). Most other electronic items are recycled for free. Some items they won't take at all (example: air conditioners). Details are at the website.
Best Buy took my old CRT monitors and TVs for free a few years back.
Best buy took my rebate for a hard drive many years ago. I will never say anything good about them nor will I ever enter one of their stores. $70 was a lot of money then. If you can not trust them in the small things you can not trust the at all.
Worst run company in retail!
Some old electronics stuff is worth a lot of money; some is worth nothing. You can be sure someone at Pest Buy is snagging anything good that comes in, sells it, and pockets the money.
Do research before you dump.
Check first. They may refuse your items.
The government has made getting rid of some old items so difficult and expensive that the easiest way to get rid of them is to throw them out beside a country road. I would never do that and that’s why I have several televisions, a printer, a computer, etc. (most of which I inherited when I bought my house and some left in my rental house which was improperly vacated). It would cost me several hundred dollars to get rid of this stuff, so it sits on a designated shelf in one of the barns.
A sledge hammer will save you $25 then.
I found the item I was looking for and proceeded to the front of the store to check out. There were 15 people in line ahead of me, and only 2 of the 8 registers were open. I waited (impatiently) for 25 minutes just to pay for my purchase. Then, with only 1 person in line ahead of me, one of the two cashiers decided it was time for her break, closed down her register, and just walked off.
When I finally got to the register, paid for my purchase and started for the door, the Manager, (some 20 something Millennial, who was standing at the exit, checking receipts) made the mistake in asking me about my shopping experience.
Needless to say, I let him have it with both barrels. I informed him that this was the most poorly managed store I have ever had the displeasure of stepping foot in. The stereos and TVs needed the volume turned way down and at least half of the “associates” needed to be taken off the floor and put on registers, because they weren’t doing any good on the floor anyway. I then informed him, that instead of him standing at the exit, checking receipts, he should be managing his employees. Finally, I said I would never step foot in this store or any BestBuy ever again, and that I would be making a full report to the corporate office online.
He looked like he was about ready to bust out crying any minute, so I exited the store and true to my word, have never stepped foot in any BestBuy since then.
Best thing you can do with a CRT is put a bullet though the glass, tear off the serial number and put it in a dump.
As for Worst Buy, they gave precious little in the stores. Their song is “Oh, but we can SHIP IT YOU YOU (and charge shipping). Problem after ot’s Shipped? Don’t take it back to the store. You have to SHIP IT to an authorized factory service center—and pay for shipping.
I had a Worst Buy manager try to sell this as a benefit—they have hundreds of thousands of items online and they can SHIP IT TO YOU! It’s the wave of the future!! I asked him “and when everything is sold online and SHIPPED TO YOU, what earthly purpose would they have for a store manager?
He realized what wil happen to his job. He had no words. I left.
My parting shot was “Don’t worry about your final check—they’ll SHIP IT TO YOU.”
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I threw a bunch of my old electronics into a box, then put a for sale classified in Craig’s list for the box and two old TV’s for $10. Sold the next day, guy offered $5, we settled on 7.