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I think one factor also is that electronics etc may be sold to a scrap dealer under the condition they are treated as metal for recycling, so that the item cannot be resold as a complete thing. Maybe twenty years ago I stopped off at a yard on the A5, was allowed to look round, and was most excited to find a virtually pristine 19 set, and the chap wouldn't sell it to me for that reason. It would have been destroyed.