What does your yard consider a "complete" desktop?

I found a local yard that recently started accepting "complete" desktop towers for $0.20/lb. I am trying to decide if I should continue stripping the computers that I get or sell them to this yard. In part it depends on what they consider a "complete" tower. When I called them I could not get a straightforward answer, but surely they must inspect them somehow otherwise they run the risk of getting a lot of empty steel cases. I will make a trip there one day to try to find out but I am still curious what your yard considers a complete desktop. What if RAM is missing? Or CPU? Or the power supply? Where does your yard draw the line? Thx

I do a little bit of buying and to me complete means complete. Hasn't been messed with. There are certain "tells" i look for and if things don't look right i start deducting for missing pieces.

I wonder if they are just looking at the outside for a power cord?

IDK ...missing finger (video) cards and optical drives can be a pain if they're been yanked. All depends on if the computer is going straight to scrap is or is a possible candidate for a refurb.

Traditionally, i was able to pay more for any scrap computer because i knew a small percentage could be refurbished.

I see a variety of things. Even if a computer is going straight to scrap, pulling the drives & finger cards devalues it. It lowers the overall average yield that i'll see over fifty or a hundred that get scrapped out.

<sigh> That means i can't always pay as much per unit to the guys that bring them in. About all i can do is pay based on what is there. It sucks for them because they don't know what to expect. It sucks for me because now i have to be nitpickey about the details.