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    Quote Originally Posted by bnawa38 View Post
    If you get a lot of laptops it is better to sell your laptops as incomplete. You get roughly 1.00 a lb for incomplete 14.75 for the memory you pulled from the laptops 1.75 for the Lith-ion Batteries and 6.00 lb for the processors. Most laptops after you harvest some of the goodies is still 5-6 lbs = 5.00-6.00 for only a minute or two of your time to take out the goodies that are quick to get. Now we all know it takes time to break down the laptop to get the mother board and than the screen it is wasted time you could be breaking down other items that you can generate good money on.I just sold 800 lbs of incomplete laptops at 1.00 a Lb this was about 160 laptops it would have taken me a good week maybe two to break these down and harvest all parts. In one 8 hour day this is what I made 800.00 for the incomplete laptops weight @ 1.00 lb I had 95 lbs of lith-ion batteries @1.75 lb = 166.25 8lbs memory @ 14.75 Lb = 118.00 totaling 1084.25 Now I saved myself a week or two of time that I broke down even more ewaste.. This is just my opion on what works for me! Good luck at what ever you decide! Forgot to add it was only 119.22 for my freight shipping
    Assuming that every stick of RAM pulled was the heaviest type(double row of chips on both sides) and further assuming that you were pulling two sticks of RAM per laptop, that only gets you 6.1 lbs of RAM. You must've had well over 200 laptops to harvest 8 lbs. of RAM.
    Also, neither of those assumptions is likely to hold up over a large number of laptops.
    Personally, I just pull the RAM, battery and HDD (due to sensitive nature of data) and then sell as complete laptop.


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