Possible Better E-Waste Prices on Ebay

I've found lately that you can get better prices on some E-Waste through selling it on Ebay, even after paying the Ebay fees and shipping costs. This works best for small heavy items, such as CPU's.

Let me give an actual example:
I filled up a large flat rate box with 59 pounds of painless CPU's. Current buyers would pay about 4.50 a pound for these. That would be $265.50 for a local drop off and 250 if mailed. I sold the same box for $370 on Ebay with free shipping. It cost roughly $15 to ship, and I had 15% in fees between Ebay and PayPal. That's a price of $300 net on the box, or an increase of $35-$50 depending on whether you ship or drive in your items.



I almost have a large flat rate box full of green fiber CPUs with the caps and pins (mostly socket 478). I'm estimating it's going to come in at 50 pounds, and will bring an at least an additional $75 by selling to Ebay.

I realize not everyone may have these kinds of quantities for CPU's. However, for smaller items I think it's worth doing some numbers to see make sure you get the most for your money.

The light went on. Just one of many ways to maximize your profits.

I have had decent luck selling cpu's on ebay, however the person who bought those is hoping to cover the extra cost by finding working units in your lot. I would caution you to not expect that good a return on other styles of cpu. Most of the time you will probably get slightly more than if shipping to an ewaste buyer and cover your shipping cost.

Agreed. Most people want to turn salvage stuff into working stuff. When a Pentium 4 can be bought on eBay for less than $3 for tested/warrantied one anyways, I don't really know why they want to take the risk. They can't be using that many more Pentium 4s, can they???

Who knows?

You can get some surprising prices for things on ebay. I just sold about 7 lbs LCD boards for about $9/lb...amazing.

I have thought about it and almost listed 15# of RAM on ebay, but you are taking a big risk. You will find some members turn sour on Ebay when they get cheated. It happens.

You say you send me 59# of CPUs, I say its not as described and only weighs 39#. I get 20# of CPUs and my money back. Nothing you are going to be able to do. Ebay will side with the buyer.

You are making a few dollars more but I sleep much better at night sending it to a buyer here. I usually try to stay away from large $$$ items on ebay and only list what I can afford to lose if you run into a scam.

An excellent resource, despite my personal views on them.

As others posted above, you'll find quite a few folks resell there. Whether it's for you or not only time can decide. As with other things, study up on it via the forum here an such an then see how it works for you. You may find you love it like some, deal with it like others, or just plain all around hate it like some folks. Then you have folks like me, who did well enough, got annoyed with changes, red tape, fee's, etc an decided to stop using them. Time will see which group you fall into.

Good luck with it, an again despite my personal views, I hope to hear it was successful for you.

Sirscrapalot - Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. - Theophrastus

I don't know, all styles of cpus go for more per pound than ewaste buyers. I can't say why people buy at that price. Maybe for others they pull the pins and sell those at a profit. I look at sold listings to find a trend inorice per pound, and do the math to find the breakeven price where I would make just as much as selling directly. I think the math is going to work for more than one lot. and if no one bids, then I can always sell it elsewhere

Originally Posted by webuyselltradestuff

Actually Matador there are a TON of regular P4's still out there...I get them CONSISTENTLY from business machines. I have about 50 form the last batch. I did check Ebay yesterday and I CAN get more than scrap for these.

That's what I find interesting. I have the same circumstances (Mostly). I have about 50-100 P4 systems ready for me to process. I wonder who is buying these? Everybody seems to have TONS of them.

Are yours the LGA 775 Pentium 4 or the PGA 478 ones???

I must say that I'm impressed by the eBay Terms and Conditions that you posted in the other thread. Do you mind if I use it as inspiration to redo parts of mine?

eBay is one strange nut to crack!

Thanks on the terms! I'll be re-writing mine this week.

I got it- I was thinking that you were talking about the older 478 style P4s. I can actually see people using the 775s. I can still sell OptiPlex GX620s, and a lot of them had the P4 chips (Some had the Pent. D chips).

Now, as for a socket 478 being usable, that's another issue entirely. I'm starting to get more 775s than 478s, but the 478s are still coming in bulk. We're a poorer area, so a lot of people are just replacing their XP machines, and a lot of those XP machines are the older ones.

Socket 462 forever! Right???