{"data":{"id":16459,"title":"Portfolio: Dumper's Depot","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/16459-Portfolio-Dumpers-Depot","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/16459","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/16459","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"Portfolio","images":[{"id":22280,"name":"DumpersDepot.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/1mfatzxb6u1vfr\/source\/DumpersDepot.jpg","alt":"","size":2351170,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2018-03-14T20:41:45+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/22280","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/22280\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"}],"images_count":7,"translations":{"en_EN":"Writer\u2019s Note: Portfolio: Dumper\u2019s Depot was published originally as a Subscriber Exclusive on March 14, 2018.\n\u201cEverything\u2019s valuable to someone!\u201d\nThis motto is known across the Empire thanks to ads for the popular scrap and trade store, Dumper\u2019s Depot, that air frequently across the spectrum. Credit for coining the phrase goes to \u201cBurner Zeke,\u201d the eccentric founder and face of the franchise. But for Zeke, the slogan is more than a gimmick to get customers into the store, it\u2019s a way of life.\n\nTHE BIRTH OF BURNER\nSeparating the man from the persona can be difficult. Zeke might sound like a slang-spewing space junker, but he was raised in a middle-class family in Fujin City, Saisei, Centauri system.\n\nBorn in 2875, Ezekiel Chikamoto was the youngest of three siblings. His parents both worked long hours and kept a strict budget in order to maintain their family\u2019s standard of living on the notoriously expensive Saisei. Ezekiel grew up wearing his brothers\u2019 hand-me-down clothes and playing with their last generation sim-games, though according to family members, he actually spent more time tinkering with appliances around their apartment than playing traditional games. His mother even had to go so far as to ban him from ever touching the cleaning unit again after an attempted \u2018customization\u2019 left every surface in their home covered in centimeters of dust. Eventually, Ezekiel\u2019s adventurous mind and natural skill with technology earned him a full scholarship to an elite private school, an experience that helped shape him into the entrepreneur he is today.\n\nAs a teenager, Ezekiel discovered that he didn\u2019t fit the elite private school mold, as his second-hand uniforms and lack of fashionable gadgets ostracized him socially. He constantly begged his parents for a top-of-the-line datapad, but they refused, patiently explaining why they couldn\u2019t afford it. They suggested he get a job to earn credits to spend on whatever he wanted.\n\nANOTHER MAN\u2019S TREASURE\nOne day, Ezekiel watched a classmate casually toss away a malfunctioning datapad. Stunned by the complete disregard for its value, he quickly grabbed it from the trash and spent the weekend fixing it. No longer needing his old unit, he took it to a second-hand shop and sold it. He pocketed some of the profits and bought more tools with the rest. Ezekiel later called the experience a revelation and wondered what else classmates were willing to discard due to minor issues.\n\nWord soon spread that Ezekiel would buy old electronics regardless of their condition. He fixed and sold what he could, and held onto any excess parts for future fixes. Soon, his bedroom resembled a scrapyard and it wasn\u2019t long before it spilled out into the rest of the apartment. His parents loved his initiative but hated the clutter, insisting that he get rid of it. Unfortunately, when he tried to offload the bulk of it, he found that secondhand shops near the landing zone consistently offered him less than he thought he should be getting. It was only when he happened to overhear two of the shop workers making fun of him after he left that he realized why. To the people who lived and worked down by the port, he came across as a wealthy prep-school kid, despite being considered the opposite by his classmates. And just like at school, if he wanted to be treated as an equal, he was going to have to find a way to adapt.\n\nFor his next visit, Ezekiel put on some old coveralls from his dad and adopted a strange, made-up accent paired with an off-kilter attitude. He saw the results immediately and landed a much better deal. From then on, whenever Ezekiel traded, he remained in character as \u201cBurner Zeke,\u201d his new hardened and crafty persona.\n\nUpon achieving his equivalency, Ezekiel shocked his parents by turning down university scholarships to focus on his burgeoning scrap business. He went against their wishes and used the credits they had saved for university to rent a small storefront near his old school. He named it Dumper\u2019s Depot and started working as Zeke full time.\n\nDUMPER\u2019S DOCTRINE\nBy 2894, the store was up and running, but Zeke soon realized that his shop was just one of many. To stand out, he decided that he would have to do things a bit differently.\n\nOne of the things Zeke had always hated about going into a shop to sell scrap was walking out with half of it still in tow. It was such a long process \u2014 the sorting, the evaluating, the haggling. So instead, Dumper\u2019s Depot would simplify everything. He set base prices for common items relating to their current functionality and damage level. He even offered bulk scrap options for people who wanted to sell large quantities at once. Sure, people could maybe get a bit more money waiting for someone to appraise it all, but if you sold at Dumper\u2019s Depot you could get in and out with a fair amount of credits in significantly less time. Plus, anything he lost on the bulk sales, he more than made up for by reselling repaired items or valuable parts he found among the piles of junk.\n\nStill, the tweaked business model alone wasn\u2019t enough. Having spent all his money on the store itself, Zeke decided to gamble and borrow heavily in order to start advertising on the spectrum. Zeke even starred in the store\u2019s first commercial as a cost-saving measure. His pitch was a simple summation of his newfound approach: \u201cEverything\u2019s valuable to someone!\u201d\n\nSoon, his shop was the busiest in the area. Before long, he had to bring in extra help to handle all the sorting and repairs. The following year, his staff doubled in size again. Their reputation grew to the point that local refineries and construction companies began to specifically contract with Dumper\u2019s for supplies, bringing even more revenue to the store. Soon other shops in the area were mimicking Dumper\u2019s setup, but thanks to the focus on advertising and the eccentric character at the center of it, customers would still seek out Burner Zeke to do business with.\n\nIn 2902, Zeke\u2019s first employee, Dayton Farro, needing to move back home to Yar for family reasons, approached Zeke about opening a store there. Zeke had never considered expanding beyond his one store, but since he trusted the employee, he gave permission for him to use the brand as long as Dayton agreed to continue to use the same practices as the original. More franchises quickly followed.\n\nInstructional materials on the basics of operating a Dumper\u2019s Depot and handling customers were all done by Burner Zeke himself. After welcoming new franchise owners into the fold with an enthusiastic, \u201cHell, if I can make this work, then so can you,\u201d he stressed the importance of trusting their own instincts to run the shop. Since they were handling day-to-day operations, he figured that the owners were in a better position to make decisions than somebody stuck back at the main headquarters. Many cite this decentralized organizational structure as a key element for Dumper\u2019s Depot stores staying open and functioning where many other businesses have failed.\n\nIn the mind of the franchisee, not only is everything valuable to someone, but owning a successful Dumper\u2019s Depot is a goal achievable by anyone. They are invested in the store\u2019s success because they are empowered to run it as they see fit. Few would have guessed that a man named Burner Zeke would inspire the level of dedication and loyalty from both customers and employees to make a simple scrap store into a titan of trade.","de_DE":"\"Alles ist wertvoll f\u00fcr jemanden!\"\nDieses Motto ist im ganzen Reich bekannt, dank der Anzeigen f\u00fcr das beliebte Schrott- und Handelsgesch\u00e4ft Dumper's Depot, das h\u00e4ufig im gesamten Spektrum l\u00fcftet. Der Dank f\u00fcr die Pr\u00e4gung des Satzes geht an \"Burner Zeke\", den exzentrischen Gr\u00fcnder und das Gesicht der Franchise. Aber f\u00fcr Zeke ist der Slogan mehr als ein Gag, um Kunden ins Gesch\u00e4ft zu bringen. Es ist eine Lebensweise.\n\nDIE GEBURT DES BRENNERS\nDie Trennung des Mannes von der Persona kann schwierig sein. Zeke mag wie ein umgangssprachlich sprechender Weltraumjunker klingen, aber er wurde tats\u00e4chlich in einer b\u00fcrgerlichen Familie in Fujin City aufgezogen.\n\nEzekiel Chikamoto, geboren 2875, war das j\u00fcngste von drei Geschwistern. Seine Eltern arbeiteten beide lange Stunden und hielten ein strenges Budget ein, um den Lebensstandard ihrer Familie auf dem ber\u00fcchtigten, teuren Saisei zu erhalten. Hesekiel wuchs in den Handt\u00fcchern seiner Br\u00fcder auf und spielte mit ihren Sim-Games der letzten Generation, obwohl er laut Familienmitgliedern tats\u00e4chlich mehr Zeit damit verbrachte, an den Ger\u00e4ten in ihrer Wohnung herumzubasteln, als an traditionellen Spielen. Seine Mutter musste sogar so weit gehen, dass sie ihm verbot, die Reinigungseinheit jemals wieder zu ber\u00fchren, nachdem eine versuchte \"Anpassung\" jede Fl\u00e4che in ihrem Haus, die mit Zentimetern Staub bedeckt war, zur\u00fccklie\u00df. Schlie\u00dflich brachte Hesekiels abenteuerlustiger Verstand und seine nat\u00fcrliche F\u00e4higkeit zur Technik ihm ein Vollstipendium f\u00fcr eine private Eliteschule ein, eine Erfahrung, die ihn zu dem Unternehmer machte, der er heute ist.\n\nAls Teenager entdeckte Hesekiel, dass er nicht in die Eliteform der Privatschule passte, da ihn seine gebrauchten Uniformen und das Fehlen von trendy Gadgets sozial ge\u00e4chtet haben. Er flehte seine Eltern st\u00e4ndig um ein erstklassiges Datenadressier an, aber sie weigerten sich und erkl\u00e4rten geduldig, warum sie es sich nicht leisten konnten. Sie schlugen vor, dass er einen Job bekommt, um Credits zu verdienen, die er f\u00fcr alles ausgeben kann, was er will.\n\nDER SCHATZ EINES ANDEREN MANNES\nEines Tages beobachtete Hesekiel, wie ein Klassenkamerad beil\u00e4ufig ein defektes Datenpaket wegwarf. Verbl\u00fcfft von der v\u00f6lligen Missachtung seines Wertes, packte er ihn schnell aus dem M\u00fcll und verbrachte ein Wochenende damit, ihn zu reparieren. Er brauchte sein altes Ger\u00e4t nicht mehr, brachte es zu einem Secondhand-Laden und verkaufte es. Er steckte einen Teil der Gewinne ein und kaufte weitere Werkzeuge mit dem Rest. Hesekiel nannte die Erfahrung sp\u00e4ter eine Offenbarung und fragte sich, was die Klassenkameraden noch bereit waren, aufgrund kleinerer Probleme zu verwerfen.\n\nEs sprach sich bald herum, dass Hesekiel alte Elektronik kaufen w\u00fcrde, unabh\u00e4ngig von ihrem Zustand. Er reparierte und verkaufte, was er konnte, und hielt alle \u00fcbersch\u00fcssigen Teile f\u00fcr zuk\u00fcnftige Reparaturen fest. Bald glich sein Schlafzimmer einem Schrottplatz und es dauerte nicht lange, bis es in den Rest der Wohnung auslief. Seine Eltern liebten seine Initiative, ha\u00dften aber die Unordnung und bestanden darauf, da\u00df er sie loswird. Leider, als er versuchte, den Gro\u00dfteil davon abzuladen, fand er heraus, dass Secondhand-L\u00e4den in der N\u00e4he des Landehafens ihm immer weniger boten, als er dachte. Erst als er zuf\u00e4llig h\u00f6rte, wie zwei der Verk\u00e4ufer sich \u00fcber ihn lustig machten, nachdem er gegangen war, wurde ihm klar, warum. Den Menschen, die am Hafen lebten und arbeiteten, erschien er als wohlhabender Vorschulkinder, obwohl er von seinen Klassenkameraden als das Gegenteil angesehen wurde. Und genau wie in der Schule, wenn er als gleichwertig behandelt werden wollte, musste er einen Weg finden, sich anzupassen.\n\nF\u00fcr seinen n\u00e4chsten Besuch zog Ezekiel einige alte Overalls von seinem Vater an und nahm einen seltsamen, erfundenen Akzent an, gepaart mit einer Off-Kilter-Haltung. Er sah die Ergebnisse sofort und konnte einen viel besseren Deal erzielen. Von da an, wann immer Hesekiel handelte, blieb er als \"Brenner Zeke\", seine neue, verh\u00e4rtete und gewiefte Pers\u00f6nlichkeit, im Charakter.\n\nAls Ezekiel seine \u00c4quivalenz erreicht hatte, schockierte er seine Eltern, indem er Universit\u00e4tsstipendien ablehnte, um sich auf sein aufkeimendes Schrottgesch\u00e4ft zu konzentrieren. Er ging gegen ihre W\u00fcnsche und nutzte die Kredite, die sie f\u00fcr die Universit\u00e4t gespart hatten, um ein kleines Gesch\u00e4ft in der N\u00e4he seiner alten Schule zu mieten. Er nannte es Dumper's Depot und begann als Zeke Vollzeit zu arbeiten.\n\nDUMPERLEHRE\nIm Jahr 2894 war der Laden in Betrieb, aber Zeke erkannte bald, dass sein Laden nur einer von vielen war. Um sich abzuheben, entschied er, dass er die Dinge ein wenig anders machen musste.\n\nEines der Dinge, die Zeke schon immer gehasst hatte, als er in einen Laden ging, um einige Sachen zu verkaufen, war, dass er mit der H\u00e4lfte davon noch im Schlepptau ging. Es war ein so langer Prozess - das Sortieren, das Bewerten, das Feilschen. Stattdessen w\u00fcrde Dumper's Depot alles vereinfachen. Er legte die Basispreise f\u00fcr g\u00e4ngige Artikel in Bezug auf ihre aktuelle Funktionalit\u00e4t und Schadensh\u00f6he fest. Er bot sogar Bulk-Schrottoptionen f\u00fcr Leute an, die einen Haufen Sachen auf einmal verkaufen wollten. Sicher, die Leute k\u00f6nnten vielleicht ein bisschen mehr Geld bekommen, wenn sie darauf warten, dass jemand ihr Zeug sch\u00e4tzt, aber wenn du bei Dumper's Depot verkaufst, k\u00f6nntest du mit einem ordentlichen Betrag an Credits in deutlich k\u00fcrzerer Zeit rein und raus gehen. Plus, alles, das er auf den Massenverk\u00e4ufen verlor, glich er mehr als aus, wenn er reparierte Einzelteile oder wertvolle Teile weiterverkaufte, die er fand, indem er durch Stapel des M\u00fclls sortierte.\n\nDennoch reichte das ausgefeilte Gesch\u00e4ftsmodell allein nicht aus. Nachdem Zeke sein ganzes Geld f\u00fcr den Laden selbst ausgegeben hatte, entschied er sich, zu spielen und viel zu leihen, um mit der Werbung auf dem Spektrum zu beginnen. Zeke spielte sogar im ersten Werbespot des Marktes als Kosteneinsparungsma\u00dfnahme. Sein Pitch war eine einfache Zusammenfassung seines neu gefundenen Ansatzes: \"Alles ist wertvoll f\u00fcr jemanden!\"\n\nBald war sein Laden der belebteste in der Gegend. Bald darauf musste er zus\u00e4tzliche Hilfe in Anspruch nehmen, um die gesamte Sortierung und Reparatur durchzuf\u00fchren. Im folgenden Jahr verdoppelte sich die Zahl seiner Mitarbeiter erneut. Ihr Ruf wuchs so weit, dass lokale Raffinerien und Bauunternehmen begannen, speziell mit Dumper's Vertr\u00e4ge \u00fcber Lieferungen abzuschlie\u00dfen, was dem Gesch\u00e4ft noch mehr Umsatz brachte. Bald ahmten andere Gesch\u00e4fte in der Gegend die Einrichtung von Dumper nach, aber dank der Fokussierung auf die Werbung und dem exzentrischen Charakter im Zentrum w\u00fcrden die Kunden immer noch Burner Zeke suchen, um mit ihm Gesch\u00e4fte zu machen.\n\n2902 wandte sich Dayton Farro, Zeke's erster Mitarbeiter, der aus famili\u00e4ren Gr\u00fcnden nach Yar zur\u00fcckkehren musste, an Zeke, um dort ein weiteres Gesch\u00e4ft zu er\u00f6ffnen. Zeke hatte nie daran gedacht, \u00fcber seinen einen Laden hinaus zu expandieren, aber da er dem Mitarbeiter vertraute, gab er ihm die Erlaubnis, die Marke zu benutzen, solange Dayton zustimmte, weiterhin die gleichen Praktiken wie das Original anzuwenden. Weitere Franchiseunternehmen folgten schnell.\n\nSchulungsunterlagen zu den Grundlagen der Bedienung eines Dumper's Depot und der Kundenbetreuung wurden von Burner Zeke selbst erstellt. Nachdem er neue Franchise-Inhaber mit Begeisterung \"H\u00f6lle, wenn ich das schaffen kann, dann kannst du das auch\" willkommen gehei\u00dfen hatte, betonte er, wie wichtig es ist, ihrem eigenen Instinkt zu vertrauen, den Laden zu f\u00fchren. Da sie den t\u00e4glichen Betrieb \u00fcbernahmen, stellte er fest, dass die Eigent\u00fcmer in einer besseren Position waren, um Entscheidungen zu treffen, als jemand, der in der Hauptverwaltung blieb. Viele nennen diese dezentrale Organisationsstruktur als ein Schl\u00fcsselelement, damit die Dumper's Depot-Lager offen bleiben und dort funktionieren, wo viele andere Unternehmen versagt haben.\n\nIm Kopf des Franchisenehmers ist nicht nur alles f\u00fcr jemanden wertvoll, sondern der Besitz eines erfolgreichen Dumper's Depot ist ein Ziel, das von jedem erreicht werden kann. Sie werden in den Erfolg des Gesch\u00e4fts investiert, weil sie bef\u00e4higt sind, es nach eigenem Ermessen zu betreiben. Nur wenige h\u00e4tten geahnt, dass ein Mann namens Burner Zeke das Ma\u00df an Engagement und Loyalit\u00e4t von Kunden und Mitarbeitern inspirieren w\u00fcrde, das aus diesem einfachen Schrottlager einen Titanen des Handels gemacht hat.","zh_CN":"Writer\u2019s Note: Portfolio: Dumper\u2019s Depot was published originally as a Subscriber Exclusive on March 14, 2018.\n\u201cEverything\u2019s valuable to someone!\u201d\nThis motto is known across the Empire thanks to ads for the popular scrap and trade store, Dumper\u2019s Depot, that air frequently across the spectrum. Credit for coining the phrase goes to \u201cBurner Zeke,\u201d the eccentric founder and face of the franchise. But for Zeke, the slogan is more than a gimmick to get customers into the store, it\u2019s a way of life.\n\nTHE BIRTH OF BURNER\nSeparating the man from the persona can be difficult. Zeke might sound like a slang-spewing space junker, but he was raised in a middle-class family in Fujin City, Saisei, Centauri system.\n\nBorn in 2875, Ezekiel Chikamoto was the youngest of three siblings. His parents both worked long hours and kept a strict budget in order to maintain their family\u2019s standard of living on the notoriously expensive Saisei. Ezekiel grew up wearing his brothers\u2019 hand-me-down clothes and playing with their last generation sim-games, though according to family members, he actually spent more time tinkering with appliances around their apartment than playing traditional games. His mother even had to go so far as to ban him from ever touching the cleaning unit again after an attempted \u2018customization\u2019 left every surface in their home covered in centimeters of dust. Eventually, Ezekiel\u2019s adventurous mind and natural skill with technology earned him a full scholarship to an elite private school, an experience that helped shape him into the entrepreneur he is today.\n\nAs a teenager, Ezekiel discovered that he didn\u2019t fit the elite private school mold, as his second-hand uniforms and lack of fashionable gadgets ostracized him socially. He constantly begged his parents for a top-of-the-line datapad, but they refused, patiently explaining why they couldn\u2019t afford it. They suggested he get a job to earn credits to spend on whatever he wanted.\n\nANOTHER MAN\u2019S TREASURE\nOne day, Ezekiel watched a classmate casually toss away a malfunctioning datapad. Stunned by the complete disregard for its value, he quickly grabbed it from the trash and spent the weekend fixing it. No longer needing his old unit, he took it to a second-hand shop and sold it. He pocketed some of the profits and bought more tools with the rest. Ezekiel later called the experience a revelation and wondered what else classmates were willing to discard due to minor issues.\n\nWord soon spread that Ezekiel would buy old electronics regardless of their condition. He fixed and sold what he could, and held onto any excess parts for future fixes. Soon, his bedroom resembled a scrapyard and it wasn\u2019t long before it spilled out into the rest of the apartment. His parents loved his initiative but hated the clutter, insisting that he get rid of it. Unfortunately, when he tried to offload the bulk of it, he found that secondhand shops near the landing zone consistently offered him less than he thought he should be getting. It was only when he happened to overhear two of the shop workers making fun of him after he left that he realized why. To the people who lived and worked down by the port, he came across as a wealthy prep-school kid, despite being considered the opposite by his classmates. And just like at school, if he wanted to be treated as an equal, he was going to have to find a way to adapt.\n\nFor his next visit, Ezekiel put on some old coveralls from his dad and adopted a strange, made-up accent paired with an off-kilter attitude. He saw the results immediately and landed a much better deal. From then on, whenever Ezekiel traded, he remained in character as \u201cBurner Zeke,\u201d his new hardened and crafty persona.\n\nUpon achieving his equivalency, Ezekiel shocked his parents by turning down university scholarships to focus on his burgeoning scrap business. He went against their wishes and used the credits they had saved for university to rent a small storefront near his old school. He named it Dumper\u2019s Depot and started working as Zeke full time.\n\nDUMPER\u2019S DOCTRINE\nBy 2894, the store was up and running, but Zeke soon realized that his shop was just one of many. To stand out, he decided that he would have to do things a bit differently.\n\nOne of the things Zeke had always hated about going into a shop to sell scrap was walking out with half of it still in tow. It was such a long process \u2014 the sorting, the evaluating, the haggling. So instead, Dumper\u2019s Depot would simplify everything. He set base prices for common items relating to their current functionality and damage level. He even offered bulk scrap options for people who wanted to sell large quantities at once. Sure, people could maybe get a bit more money waiting for someone to appraise it all, but if you sold at Dumper\u2019s Depot you could get in and out with a fair amount of credits in significantly less time. Plus, anything he lost on the bulk sales, he more than made up for by reselling repaired items or valuable parts he found among the piles of junk.\n\nStill, the tweaked business model alone wasn\u2019t enough. Having spent all his money on the store itself, Zeke decided to gamble and borrow heavily in order to start advertising on the spectrum. Zeke even starred in the store\u2019s first commercial as a cost-saving measure. His pitch was a simple summation of his newfound approach: \u201cEverything\u2019s valuable to someone!\u201d\n\nSoon, his shop was the busiest in the area. Before long, he had to bring in extra help to handle all the sorting and repairs. The following year, his staff doubled in size again. Their reputation grew to the point that local refineries and construction companies began to specifically contract with Dumper\u2019s for supplies, bringing even more revenue to the store. Soon other shops in the area were mimicking Dumper\u2019s setup, but thanks to the focus on advertising and the eccentric character at the center of it, customers would still seek out Burner Zeke to do business with.\n\nIn 2902, Zeke\u2019s first employee, Dayton Farro, needing to move back home to Yar for family reasons, approached Zeke about opening a store there. Zeke had never considered expanding beyond his one store, but since he trusted the employee, he gave permission for him to use the brand as long as Dayton agreed to continue to use the same practices as the original. More franchises quickly followed.\n\nInstructional materials on the basics of operating a Dumper\u2019s Depot and handling customers were all done by Burner Zeke himself. After welcoming new franchise owners into the fold with an enthusiastic, \u201cHell, if I can make this work, then so can you,\u201d he stressed the importance of trusting their own instincts to run the shop. Since they were handling day-to-day operations, he figured that the owners were in a better position to make decisions than somebody stuck back at the main headquarters. Many cite this decentralized organizational structure as a key element for Dumper\u2019s Depot stores staying open and functioning where many other businesses have failed.\n\nIn the mind of the franchisee, not only is everything valuable to someone, but owning a successful Dumper\u2019s Depot is a goal achievable by anyone. They are invested in the store\u2019s success because they are empowered to run it as they see fit. Few would have guessed that a man named Burner Zeke would inspire the level of dedication and loyalty from both customers and employees to make a simple scrap store into a titan of trade."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":32,"created_at":"2020-03-10T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"6 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-08 02:37:31","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":16458,"next_id":16460}}