Hard drive situation

From casual collecting I lost count of how many computers I have . And I have boxes of mother boards and cards also. I have many hard drives AND that is what I need help with,See some one I know approached me cause he needs lots of hard drives for a music storage project , He has some hard wear that allows him to slid the hard drive in then he plans to put music in and safely store hard drives away instead of DVD's. Since I do scrap metal with a vengeance I am willing to sell off my hard drives but I am not here to do any favors many things I will give away even when i know there is value BUT my metal thats different after all thats why I do it
I want to pull the utmost value from what I have.
I will take apart a hard drive to recapture the board AL SS ( so on )



THE QUESTION : What is a safe price to sell a hard drive as to cover the items that I can dismantle . further more some hard drives I have may have value of $80 for a 500 GB and this man I feel may only want to pay $10 to $20 per drive He wants all my hard drives ALL OF THEM If I sell them I want a good pay day !!

Copper Head, are all your hard drives wiped and tested? If not, then placing a value of 80.00 on an untested 500G hard drive seems a little unreasonable. You could charge him a flat rate per gig (say 3 cents per gig) with no warranty.

Originally Posted by freonjoe

Copper Head, are all your hard drives wiped and tested? If not, then placing a value of 80.00 on an untested 500G hard drive seems a little unreasonable. You could charge him a flat rate per gig (say 3 cents per gig) with no warranty.

thats $1.20 for a 40gb drive seems low, pts pays about double that for a working 40gb drive and alot more for 500's

Originally Posted by jghilino

thats $1.20 for a 40gb drive seems low, pts pays about double that for a working 40gb drive and alot more for 500's

Jg, I think the point is that PTS is paying that much for a hard drive that is tested and proven to be good.

scrap price is $1.25 per lb x2.2 - shipping. any thing above that is a win + no hastlw or waiting.

how you handle it depend on the personality of the person your selling to. can you negotiate with him say starting at $5 per drive or is he one of those you cant talk sense to ?

the guy definitely understands storage gigs soooo Joes Idea of charging by the G is a sound one the guy may understand.

be sure he understands he is buying as is.

Olddude thats a nice price per # for scrap hd's . You must have nice deal worked out.

I do thanks. thats gaylord price.

I have for sale 2 gaylords of drives sans boards, im waiting for a buyer of rare earth metal to decide weather to break them down or not.

Nice olddude, puts my measley 100 in the garage to shame...lol

With a little time I can test them , I have kinda lost some enthusiasm for e bay AS I see once you start to sell more and more they seem to charge MORE also - Like I sold some copper time's 2 for $140 then more at $30 then miscellaneous sales at $50 so my $220 turned into $107 . after shipping and e bay fees Pay pal fees . Recently I had 25 lbs copper up for bid and was glad when it did not sell I took to the yard and was paid close to $70 no fuss no muss. I have a very good 100% rating but I see no bid wars going on for my items. SO the prices I see on E bay look enticing but before you know it they become your business partner . I tried to price a bit more to cover the cost - 10% more stopped peoples interest
He will pay from $5 to $10 per drive considering the time to dismantle $5 to $10 per drive I guess i'll be ahead , The deal I think might work is $10 each & he pays me only for the working ones , I scrap the others

I'll buy them at that price. PM me. or call me 850 381 9920

Originally Posted by olddude

I'll buy them at that price. PM me. or call me 850 381 9920

? Me or copper head

Copper box them up and send them my way. Ill test them and pay your a fair price and you dont have to worry about ebay. This is why I started buying hard drives and such to begin with. I knew alot of people on the forums hated selling things on ebay. So I made a niche for myself here on the forum and so far I have had no complaints from the people who use my service.