# Has anyone used 1-800 Got Junk?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 3, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-used-1-800-got-junk/792712 "2017-08-03T19:56:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![phxjcc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phxjcc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phxjcc)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-used-1-800-got-junk/792712/21 "2017-08-06T04:31:57Z")

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In SoCal, Palm Springs area…

One small truckload was $800+, AND they take your “junk” to a warehouse and sort through it for possible resale. For perspective a 30 cubic yard dumpster from the garbage company is 450. Their truck was maybe 1/5 of that.

Best bet is to find a contractor with a dump trailer and pay laborers to load it and haul it off. I did, and they took 3x what the got-junk guy did…for $400. 4 guys 4 hours full trailer and 8 ft pickup bed full…everybody was happy, mostly them for the money.

Or get a dumpster and do it yourself.

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**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-used-1-800-got-junk/792712/22 "2017-08-06T08:18:29Z")

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If you have no problem throwing stuff in a dumpster yourself, but just have no way to haul it away, you can rent fairly large dumpsters from a couple hundred bucks.

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**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-used-1-800-got-junk/792712/23 "2017-08-06T08:20:16Z")

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> [@filmore](#):
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> An alternative is [Bagster](https://www.thebagster.com/). It’s a huge, 3 cubic yard bag that you fill with junk and then they come and take it away. It’s about $150

I looked into that because I always saw them at Home Depot but I ended up getting a larger dumpster for $200something from a local semi-celebrity company. I know Home Depot and other places also offer the dumpsters.

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**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-used-1-800-got-junk/792712/24 "2017-08-06T12:24:03Z")

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I’ve used them a couple of times when we were renovating our house. They hauled away construction debris. They were expensive, but no surprises in their service, it cost what we agreed I would pay.

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