Pagers - What Grade " Boards "????????????? - Page 2

Originally Posted by Absolutecomm

hmm.. Enoch43, That may be a decent situation already then.

But I wonder what the time involved is with breaking down VS. selling them by pound as they sit, untouched/unopened?
How many must be broken down, before getting a pound of pager boards? (and how much plastic weight gets removed? 2/3rds plastic, I would guess)

The time involved is negligible....some pop open with a knife blade, some have a few torx screws. I do save some of the gold battery springs and antennas and sell those separately. If the shipping/payout was beneficial I would consider selling them whole. I have seen some buyers offer .50¢ lb for them, and that is certainly NOT a good deal.

I don't see why if you removed the battery a buyer wouldn't pay you cell phone price, seems like about the same ratio of plastic/glass to a cell phone.

ive also came into several pagers latley,i am very new to the escrap businius,but all the boards have noticable gold plating and are very thin with little population on them. i am not sure about all the grading yet but ive been putting them in there own box.im actually doing that with everything.figure i cant go wrong that way