the fun of scrapping with me and my pics - Page 2

Do you have to buy all those computers or do you get some given to you or a combo??

P.S. I hope you have a little heat in the garage. Might be chillier now that the Jan. thaw around here has come to an end...

most are free but I do buy a lot of auctions so bulk is bigger at one time

I love college towns. I had a guy call me up yesterday asking how many printers and rom drives I get in as he was looking for motors and parts to build a 3d printer as he is writing a paper on using reclaimed materials and showing how to get them cheap and plans to build your own things. this way the specialized parts are what he is spending the money on. im glad I dint load up the truck with printers as he only need so much lol but sold him 11 printers and 50 dvd/cd rom drives for $15 and yes I already took the boards so it was a fair price for both of us.
im glad he did before I tore them down more cause I smash out the motors and heads to make it fast lol

What site / types of business do you use to find pallets of coms? I have searched all over the local auction sites but the piles of ewaste still elude my searches =/

govedeals I love a lot but sites and businesses everywhere as well as college surplus and d.o.t. surplus and so forth

Totally awesome man, that kind of inventory is a dream for me to sort. I think I love scrapping so much because I am all OCD and I get to sort out every little type of metal. Wires, heatsinks, transformers/motors, brass, stainless you name it.

got to give a shout out to the memory group llc. just completed my first shipment with them a small one of 54 laptops this past week and they are awesome they paid paid for shipping and have great screen prices and email you fast and update you all the time and went above and beyond when paypal was being a pita they overnighted me cash. look forward to this weeks shipment of 125 and they also will arrange freight shipping on a pallet if you wish for more than 200laptops at a time.
I will be doing that next but want to get these all out first. the cold has been such a pain though as tape wont stick to a box outside trying to pack these up for ups and so I have had to lug everything inside and back out again

Could you tell how much you get +/- per laptop?

that's a huge range I would check the buyers section and ebay to give you a idea cause its all about age condition and so forth

Originally Posted by travistemple202020

that's a huge range I would check the buyers section and ebay to give you a idea cause its all about age condition and so forth

thank you I get about 17$ a piece, in working and non-working condition

got a fun email yesterday morning from clist and picked up 10 tape drives in good shape which will be a fast sell on ebay @$50 so they don't have to sit long

Do you have an ebay store or do you do auctions? Any variations that you'll sell them all for that price or you just know from experience that if you list them "buy it now" or however you do it, you get it???

Do you test the tape drives, or can you sell them as untested?

Thanks!

I sell as untested cause I want a fast sell and with out having a lot of space to test items with and really have no problems since I offer a return and most things I pull to sell work already as for a store no I sell auction style because it gets more views and with that more people to contact that want special orders. I do that with my good regulars kind of like the wish list on ebay I have a updated list for different buyers so I can fill it when I come across things and know when they have gotten something already.
as for knowing prices I learned a lot over the years for some stuff to sell but mostly I just put random prices higher and lower depending so I can catch both ends of people searching as long as it sells fast and I put no more than 3 days on a auction because any longer it stalls and needs to come up right away for people on at least the first 2 pages so that it does sell fast

todays crazy load 8 lcd displays 7 printers 2 60in tvs 90 keyboards a mix of other stuff and 15 3ft hdmi display port cables and nothing that works lol even the cables are bad lol but still some money but a lot more work lol

some get broke down to sell for keys and mylar others for resale but most get saved to build larger loads to sell at one time and then of course when all else fails our city grinds them up to help make our electricity lol

I love people who don't want to work hard I was at an auction yesterday and pallets of computers go for $40-75 there part stripped lumped together and one person looked at the pallet and said who buys these I cant even sell these and I work on computers.....so I pulled the tag quietly... then he said your going to do all that work for a few bucks and I said with a smile ya I build my own business around this but its not for everyone. what makes this day better was the tag was priced wrong it was a single computer for $5 that someone probably sat down and they just taped it on by accident but even more so for me because there was three pallets and I already had gotten a few other things including computers as well they let me have it for $5 anyway.
I laughed all the time I was loading them in the truck because the pallet had 30 reg dells 14small factor type ones and 6 servers plus the 8 other computers and 17 typewriters I got for a total of $19
after spending about 4hrs total tear down
780lbs of tin= $46.80
12lbs crap wire=4.08
16lbs duel s server boards= $60
38lbs small socket = 58.90
0.78lb green with s= 4.71
2.67lbs finger cards= 10.01
3.28lbs memory= 44.28
no drive boards yet I do them when I get a few hundred at a time to make better weight sending in
rough total before shipping and expenses $228.78 and that's with me dinking around having fun on a beautiful day that I was not really even going to do much so I like working this business its tuff at times but good money

Wow this thread has me inspired.

I'm assuming that since you've been doingvg this for years you just know where the auctions are/who's hosting the party but where did you first hear or find them?

Checking out govedeals now...whole world I never knew about!

I live in a college town so we have surplus auctions each week and city auctions each month or so plus a lot of mix of others but most things usually will be listed in the paper or clist is a great place to look for ones that are not really publicized