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    Well, I was able to hook up again with one of my older suppliers.

    For quite a while I had been able to buy computers and other ewaste from my trash company. I went to check them out a couple of months ago and I must have caught the boss on a bad day cause he jacked the price up to $4.00 ea. (take them or leave them). I had been paying 3.50 and was thinking about dropping it a little more.

    Well it's been 2 or 3 months since I talked to him but I needed to pay my trash bill so while I was there I thought I'd hit him up again to see if he'd sell some computers. He asked what I was paying and I just blurted out .14 a lb. He thought a minute and asked me how many I wanted, I said a truckload. Don't know if it's still too high a price but I'll see after tearing them all down. Hope I don't lose my shorts.

    Well a truckload I got. Any guesses how much weight I have in this Ford Ranger??



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    843 is a guess.
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    515 lbs. I'd love to know how that works out as compared to paying 3.50 a piece for them. I've never actually weighed one.

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    those look to be mostly complete.........14/lb should be fine........Just watch gold prices as they have been going down lately........GOOD SCORE!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by HipoGear View Post
    515 lbs. I'd love to know how that works out as compared to paying 3.50 a piece for them. I've never actually weighed one.
    Hope your not paying 3.50 a piece. Not much meat left at that price unless your getting more than scrap and there is no way to be sure of that when you buy.

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    Just to update a little and give a good clue, there was 28 computers of various sizes and 1 old server.

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    650 lbs

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    3.13 $ each ?

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    I think I came out ok as about 1/4 of them didn't have their side covers so I wasn't paying .14 a lb for cheap steel. It's from them being tossed around and a couple came out of the rear of a trash truck and they got bent up majorly. When you have to use a tire iron to get the components out you know it's bent up pretty good. Glad there was only a few that way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pjost View Post
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    No offense to Mech but I doubt a F Ranger could carry that much weight, without the front wheels leaving the ground, heh heh.

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    I paid for 760 lb of computers and have hauled 480 lb of empty carcasses into the yard. 2 boxes of boards got shipped and there's still cd drives, power supplies, hard drives, and heat sinks to break on down.

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    You must have a "friendly" trash company, not like mine that is the largest in the world that buys politicians for "kickbacks". So for us still learning E-waste, 23-25 pounds per desktop a good average weight?

    I tried for two years to buy complete computers from one of the yards I used to sell to. We went back and forth, at first I offered $4 they wanted $5. When prices started really going south, they offered $4 and I countered with $3, they were buying them for $.06 per pound and then $.04. So I felt I was giving them a chance to double their money. I quit selling them my light steel when they dropped the price to $65 per ton. I would still like to get their computers, but we need to work it out for both of us.


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