Dumpster Diving: The Advanced Course - How to Turn Other People's Trash into Money, Publicity and Power - Softcover

Hoffman, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 158160369X ISBN 13: 9781581603699

Publisher: Paladin Press,U.S., 2002

Synopsis

It's been 10 years since the publication of John Hoffman's cult classic of urban scavenging, The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving. Now the Garbage Guru is back with an advanced course in the unconventional economics of exploring the trash for fun and profit. Just some of the lessons you will learn include: the key secret to dealing with locked dumpsters; how to dive for information and use it to humiliate corporations, politicians and other evil-doers; the unusual profitability of diving for movie and celebrity castoffs; the BIG-bucks potential of industrial diving, including the top 10 most lucrative places to do it; how to sell your dumpster-dived wares through the flea market of the 21st century - eBay; how to parlay dumpster diving consciousness into finding cheap property, supporting radical causes, even landing political office; and much more!

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Synopsis

It has been ten years since the publication of John Hoffman's cult classic of urban scavenging, 'The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving'. Now he's back with an advanced course in turning other people's rubbish into money, publicity and power! Be prepared to be challenged by this mind-bending tutorial in the unconventional economics of digging through trash in pursuit of fun and profit. Just some of the lessons you will learn include: The 'key' secret to dealing with locked dumpsters; How to dive for information ('dumpster dirt') and use it to humiliate corporations, politicians, and other evil-doers; The unusual profitability of diving for movie celebrity castoffs -- without ever having to visit Hollywood; The potential of industrial diving, including the top 10 most lucrative places to do it; How to sell your dumpster-dived wares through the greatest flea market of the 21st century -- eBay!;

How to parlay 'dumpster diving consciousness' into finding cheap property, supporting radical causes, even landing political office New readers, as well as those familiar with Hoffman's work, must be warned that this book is decidedly weirder, more ambitious, more disturbing, and profoundly more subversive than his first book. You're gonna dig it!

Edition details

• Publisher: Paladin Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 158160369X
• ISBN 13: 9781581603699
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120