# Abq Reclaimed is one person: Josh Eldred, a reseller since 2003 > Abq Reclaimed is one person: Josh Eldred, an eBay seller since 2003. I pick up the resale-worthy share of a move or clear-out free and say who takes the rest. Source: https://abqreclaimed.com/about · Abq Reclaimed, Albuquerque, NM · free pickup by request — text a photo to (505) 250-3804 Abq Reclaimed is a one-person, for-profit reuse business in Albuquerque, New Mexico, run by Josh Eldred, an eBay seller since 2003. I pick up resale-worthy goods free: tools, electronics (working or not), camping gear, bikes, sporting goods, instruments, appliances, scrap metal, collectibles, and vintage and quality furniture. I'm set up for people who are moving, downsizing, clearing a parent's house, or emptying a storage unit — I take the resale-worthy share free and tell you exactly who takes the rest. It isn't a charity, isn't tax-deductible, and isn't a junk-removal crew. Every pickup is a request I confirm by photo. **I'm Josh Eldred.** Fourth-generation New Mexican. For years I've made my living finding things headed for the landfill that still have real value, and getting them back to people who want them. I do every Abq Reclaimed pickup myself, from your first photo to the Reclaim Receipt. Same hands, same promise every time: keep good stuff out of the landfill, and tell you where it went. **A track record you can check.** I'm not new at this — I'm an [eBay seller since 2003 — currently an eBay Top Rated Seller, **99.8% positive feedback** (1,800+ feedback score, 3,800+ items sold)](https://www.ebay.com/fdbk/feedback_profile/new-mexico-literacy-project). The badge on my profile says it in eBay's words: "one of eBay's most reputable sellers." (The 99.8% is eBay's 12-month figure; the Top Rated badge is current.) [See my eBay store](https://www.ebay.com/str/newmexicoliteracyproject). Thousands of strangers have trusted me to value their things, pack them, and ship them right — on everything from medical equipment and vintage clothing to wheelchair parts, tools, and rare books. That's the experience behind every pickup: I know what has real value, and you can trust the person showing up at your door. ## Why I started this For years, this has been my life: finding things people no longer want — sometimes literally out of a dumpster on the way to the landfill — and getting them back into the hands of someone who actually wants them. Eight brand-new blood-pressure cuffs, still sealed in their original packaging. A 1960s horsehide café-racer jacket. A drum machine made in Japan in 1999. None of it was junk. It had real value; the previous owners were just too busy with their own work and lives to do anything but throw it out. I've done it countless times. I find what's headed for the landfill, recover the things that still have life and demand, and rehome them with people who appreciate them. I get paid for that — and honestly, it's a community service: that value would have been buried otherwise. Abq Reclaimed is me offering to do that for you. You don't have to figure out what's worth saving or haul anything anywhere — text me a photo of the garage, the spare room or the storage unit, and I'll rescue what still has life in it and get it to someone who wants it. Whatever can't be sold, I route to the best reuse and recycling I can find. Free, by hand, every time. I'm still one person, with the same limited time and space as anyone — so the fastest way to start is to **text me a photo or two first** at [(505) 250-3804](tel:+15052503804). A picture lets me tell you quickly what's worth a trip, and lets me be honest when it isn't. I can't save everything, and sometimes I'll have to say no — but I'll always tell you straight. ## A few things I've reclaimed Not donated to me — pulled from the waste stream over the years. Every one found a home: - **Eight brand-new blood-pressure cuffs**, still sealed in their original packaging — back in use instead of a landfill. - **A 1960s Bates horsehide café-racer jacket** — recovered and resold to someone who'll actually wear it. - **A working Boss DR-770 drum machine** (made in Japan, 1999) — a new owner instead of a dumpster. - **A tested Nikon L35AF point-and-shoot film camera** — found a new owner who'll actually shoot it, instead of the trash. - **A several-thousand-pound industrial heat exchanger** — pulled off a trailer with my forklift and stripped down: the working electronic components resold (some as far as the UK), and every pound of copper and steel recycled. Nothing landfilled. And it's often not the whole thing — it's the *parts* inside what people write off as dead. A tested foot pedal from a broken sewing machine. The control box out of a busted adjustable bed. Armrests, brackets, caster wheels, and forks stripped from wrecked wheelchairs. Somewhere, someone is trying to fix the exact same item, and that one part is what they've been hunting for — I've shipped them all over the country. Old calculators, too, like an HP-15C or an HP 32S II: the kind of thing that sits in a drawer until it ends up in the trash. That's the difference between "broken" and "worthless" — most of the time, there isn't one. A few dollars or a few thousand pounds — same story every time: real value, almost lost, given a second life. That's exactly what your pickup feeds into. ## A wall of real reclaims Not stock photos — these are actual things I've pulled from the waste stream and put back into use, shot in my own warehouse. A sewing-machine foot pedal, a power-wheelchair cable, an 1890s leather Jane Austen set, a Boss drum machine, an industrial contactor: different worlds, same story every time. Patagonia base layer Vintage camera strap Bernina foot control Wheelchair power cable Vintage shifter knob Kavu backpack HP calculator Rare collectible book 8-book series set Dell AiO drive Sealed DVD set Inov-8 trail shoes Dragonlance set Art-instruction DVD History book lot 1890s Jane Austen set Game of Thrones set Vintage Dodgers cap 1977 NM first edition Industrial contactor Out-of-print book Collector songbook Signed biography Boss DR-770 drum machine Yankees jersey The Who CD lot Every one of these was headed for a landfill or a dumpster until it wasn't — sold, rehomed, or on its way to someone who wanted it. That's the whole job. ## What your stuff turns into Since January 2025 I’ve made 1,500+ eBay sales — among them 150+ pieces of quality clothing and boots, 50+ cameras, lenses and optics, 20+ slide rules and calculators, and hundreds of books. Below are real item types from those sales (list checked October 2026; no prices, no buyer details) — plenty of it vintage, all of it the kind of thing that comes out of garages, closets and long-lived-in houses: something a stranger went looking for. - **Vintage cameras, lenses and optics:** a Canon AE-1, a Minolta X-700, an Asahi Pentax K1000, a Nikon L35AF, Kodak No. 1A Pocket and Zeiss Ikon Ikonta folding cameras, Minolta Rokkor-X and Konica Hexanon lenses, a gemological binocular microscope. - **Vintage radio, audio and synths:** a 1940 Stromberg-Carlson tube radio, an HMV portable gramophone (sold for parts), a 1987 Roland MT-32 sound module, Roland CR-80 and Boss DR-770 drum machines, a Shure 516EQ microphone, a new-old-stock Shure phonograph cartridge, a Sony Sports Walkman radio. - **Slide rules, calculators and drafting tools:** a 1947 K+E log-log slide rule and a K+E Jet-Log, a Post Versalog, a Dietzgen pocket rule and an Aristo Multilog; HP-15C, HP-17BII, HP-32SII and HP-20S calculators; a vintage TI Programmer; a Casio CFX-200 calculator watch; a Brown & Sharpe vernier caliper; an ACU-ARC radius ruler. - **Vintage toys, games and tabletop:** a 1984 Barbie still in the box, a 1950s Japanese tin friction bus, an antique Schneider mechanical pinball game, a first-printing 1981 TSR D&D Basic rulebook and a 1985 Unearthed Arcana, 1971 Rider, 1983 Thoth and 1984 B.O.T.A. tarot decks, vintage Bicycle playing cards, a 1993 big-box PC game, a Game Boy Color, NES and GameCube games. - **Watches, pens and fine collectibles:** a 1960s Omega Seamaster (sold for repair), a Rado Diastar, a TAG Heuer, vintage Cross gold-filled and Concorde pen sets, Lladró and Lenox porcelain, Chinese cloisonné, retired Fiesta mugs. - **Vintage clothing, boots and leather:** a 1960s Bates horsehide café-racer jacket, black-label Tony Lama ostrich boots, Frye boots, Wrangler western shirts, a Pendleton wool shirt, ’90s Levi’s 505 jeans, ’90s JNCO and Girbaud jeans, Army OG-507 pants, Duxbak brush pants, a ’90s Patagonia Snap-T. - **Vintage wool:** pure-wool camp blankets from old North American woolen mills (Ayers of Quebec, Amana of Iowa), a 1960s Pendleton stadium blanket and an L.L.Bean wool blanket. - **Sewing room:** Bernina 830 accessories (a knee lift, an extension table, a shuttle hook, foot controls, a lap-seam hemmer foot and the original manual), Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff foot controls, a Brother embroidery arm, vintage Boye knitting needles, an antique Minnesota A sewing-machine manual. - **Manuals:** Harley-Davidson factory service manuals from the 1970s to the 2000s, a 1978 Ford truck shop-manual set, Bentley BMW and Toyota Land Cruiser shop manuals, Garmin GNS 430W and IFR pilot manuals, glider flight-training manuals. - **Instruments and oddities:** a Selmer clarinet and a Jupiter alto saxophone, an Art Deco brass mail slot, a new-old-stock Boorum & Pease ledger, vintage Florence chess pieces, a scuba part, discontinued Oreck vacuum bags. - **Books and box sets:** an Easton Press Bible, a Folio Society history, an 1890s half-leather Jane Austen set, signed Navajo-weaving and Southwest books, a Derrydale Press limited edition, multi-volume reference sets, college textbooks, a Sky King DVD box set. - **Brand-name outdoor clothing and boots:** a quilted Relwen tanker jacket, Stormy Kromer vests, a Filson down vest, Burton jackets, Patagonia Better Sweaters and Torrentshells, KUHL pants, Carhartt double-knee pants, Oboz, Chaco and Asolo leather boots. - **Computers and electronics:** a G4 Mac mini, a first-generation iPod nano in its box, a vintage Brother word processor, a MacBook Pro, a Kindle Paperwhite, Canon PowerShot cameras, a Canon GL2 MiniDV camcorder, thermal receipt printers. - **Industrial controls and network gear:** an industrial time-delay relay, an ABB contactor, a Telemecanique selector switch, a Square D operator panel, a Modicon micro controller, a VoIP network gateway. - **From parents' houses and senior moves:** an adjustable-bed motor, a bed control box and remotes, a power-chair controller, a wheelchair headrest and Invacare parts — the kind of thing that comes out of a long-lived-in house, going to people who needed that exact replacement part. Every one went to a buyer who wanted that exact thing. [See my eBay store](https://www.ebay.com/str/newmexicoliteracyproject) or [check my eBay feedback](https://www.ebay.com/fdbk/feedback_profile/new-mexico-literacy-project) — eBay seller since 2003 — currently an eBay Top Rated Seller, 99.8% positive feedback (1,800+ feedback score, 3,800+ items sold). Got something like this in the garage or a closet? [Text me a photo](sms:+15052503804). ## What I believe > Almost nothing is really trash. It's mostly value nobody had time to recover. Tools, gear, instruments, electronics, appliances, vintage finds — a huge share of what gets tossed could be worn, played, used, or fixed again by someone who'd be glad to have it. I'm the person with the time and the eye to catch it before it's buried. That's the whole job: keep good things in use, and out of the ground. Here's where being a reseller actually matters to you. A thrift store has to move donations by the ton, so a lot of genuinely good things get sorted by volume and never reach the person who'd have wanted them — undervalued, or never sold at all. I'm the opposite of that: one person, by hand, who's spent over two decades learning what has real value and who's looking for it. So when you'd otherwise drop your good stuff in a bin and hope for the best, give it to me instead — I'll get it to a real buyer or user, recycle what I can't, and tell you exactly where it went. You don't get paid for it; this is free pickup and I keep the resale value. What you get is the certainty that your good things got used, not buried. ## The one thing a thrift store can't do Because I personally handle every pickup, I know exactly what I collected — and where the main pieces ended up. So after pickup, I send you a **Reclaim Receipt**: a short, honest note telling you where your stuff went. Drop a box at a thrift store and it disappears into a sea of bins; you never hear another word. I'd rather close the loop. ## How the pickup actually works It's about as simple as it gets. You [text me a photo](sms:+15052503804) (or use the [request form](https://abqreclaimed.com/#schedule)), I tell you honestly what I can take and who takes the rest, and if it's a fit we agree on a day around my routes and I pick up the resale-worthy share free. Want the full walkthrough? See [how it works](https://abqreclaimed.com/how-it-works) or [what I take](https://abqreclaimed.com/what-we-accept). ## Where your stuff goes Tools, electronics, gear, instruments, working appliances and quality clothing and shoes are cleaned up and resold or rehomed so they get used again. Metal from dead appliances and equipment is reclaimed and recycled, and dead electronics go to the best e-waste recycling I can find. (I don't handle worn-out or everyday clothing, linens or rags, and I don't do textile recycling.) The goal at every step is the same: keep material in use and out of the ground. The honest, behind-the-scenes version is in [my promise](https://abqreclaimed.com/our-promise). **Straight talk on the tax question.** Abq Reclaimed is a for-profit business, not a registered 501(c)(3) — so a pickup isn't tax-deductible. Here's the honest version: I'm paid for a real service — rescuing things with genuine demand from the waste stream and getting them to people who want them. That's exactly what lets me show up for free and absorb the cost of recycling what can't be sold. Instead of a tax receipt nobody reads, you get a Reclaim Receipt telling you where your stuff actually went. If a write-off is what you're after, a registered charity is the better fit — no hard feelings. ## Proudly local I live here, I drive these routes myself, and I'm invested in keeping Albuquerque a little greener — one garage, move and clear-out at a time. Every request helps me learn where the need is and expand where I can reach. [Text me a photo →](sms:+15052503804) ## A track record you can check Two decades of reselling is what lets me take the resale-worthy share of a clear-out free — and tell you honestly where the rest should go. 2003 eBay seller since 99.8% positive feedback — currently an eBay Top Rated Seller, 3,800+ items sold $0 cost to you ## Clearing something out? Got a garage, a move, or a parent's house to clear? Text me a photo of the pile. [Text me a photo](sms:+15052503804)