$3 investment and turning it into an easy $30+ return

Originally Posted by jghilino

George, those old heavy vintage laptops like that toshiba usually have a desktop sized ceramic cpu in them. The motherboard is heavier also. You should do very well on it if you scrap it. The pentium logo is a dead giveaway its a ceramic cpu. This was right before they figured out how to make the cheap fiber cpus that started with pentium 2.

Yeah, I will wait it out for the listing to end, and then come this weekend, it will get scrapped.



I am going to give scrap laptops a few more test runs on ebays, but if I can sell each one for roughly what I am selling these 3 for, than I will let some of my contacts know, I will pay a few bucks more for each laptop that they come across. Just to ensure that I get them.

Originally Posted by GeorgeB

Yeah, I will wait it out for the listing to end, and then come this weekend, it will get scrapped.

I am going to give scrap laptops a few more test runs on ebays, but if I can sell each one for roughly what I am selling these 3 for, than I will let some of my contacts know, I will pay a few bucks more for each laptop that they come across. Just to ensure that I get them.

I am doing the same thing on laptops now. I get the model number from each one and then decide how much to offer the seller based on what i think its worth. I am paying $2-$30 each for broken laptops now, I also buy broken gadgets, like cell phones, tablets, gps digital cameras and so on. There is alot of money to be made selling them for parts on ebay.

Originally Posted by jghilino

I am doing the same thing on laptops now. I get the model number from each one and then decide how much to offer the seller based on what i think its worth. I am paying $2-$30 each for broken laptops now, I also buy broken gadgets, like cell phones, tablets, gps digital cameras and so on. There is alot of money to be made selling them for parts on ebay.

And the only thing you need is a model number, and you can see what (if any) it will potentially sell for on ebay?

For the laptops, I thought that the max they sold for, was roughly $30, so how can you pay that, and still make a profit?

Once my wife and I get our taxes back, I plan to get heavily into buying stuff like scrap gold jewelry (so many resources to come by it where I live, it is like me seeing gold mines everywhere) for gold refining, and stuff like PC ram and ceramic cpus.

I was also thinking of buying broken/non working stuff like cell phones, tablets, etc for the same reasons as laptops. Thanks for confirming that this will be a possibility.