[TriLUG] [OT] Strange Beep from Back-UPS XS 1200
Steve Pinkham
steve.pinkham at gmail.com
Wed Jan 22 14:36:20 EST 2014
On 01/22/2014 02:06 PM, Chris Merrill wrote:
> On 1/22/2014 1:59 PM, Steve Pinkham wrote:
>> Lead-acid Batteries are probably the easiest hazardous waste to dispose
>> of, as recyclers will actually pay good money for them. Wake recycling
>> centers take old batteries. Walmart and Sears have a declared policy of
>> taking any battery, and any autoparts store will usually take them.
>
> So Gruber requires an extra trip somewhere to recycle. For an apples-to-
> apples comparison, that potentially puts the price much closer to Batteries+,
> assuming that money IS an object AND time IS money.
Let's analyze that claim for a minute.
Buy online and you have to make one trip to any one of Batteries+,
Walmart, Sams, recycling center, any autoparts store or other similar
location. If you can store a small battery somewhere, you're probably
going to go to such a place in the next month anyway.
Buying from batteries+ you have to make at least one trip specifically
to batteries+, two if you don't remove your battery before the first trip.
Marginal travel time for online purchase varies from same as buying from
batteries+ to basically zero.
Batteries+ isn't a bad option, but the travel time argument for it being
better is a silly way to try to justify it. Depending on how often you
buy any particular model, the convenience of just ripping one out and
taking it to a store to match up could be a decent argument for using a
local store.
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