I had a connection a few years ago that was tossing me stripped out flat screens. He also told me he had a connection that was buying up laptops in large quantities as long as they had web cameras. None of my IT guys would budge on price (too greedy). Fast forward to today and that guy is long gone. The company that I compete with in Ewaste no longer gets laptops from big corporations and is having to advertise more to attract the general public.
My contact found his way to big corporations and is paying them for their moderately used laptops. A few years ago, to my knowledge, this was a billion dollar industry growing in Brazil. Now who knows how big this has grown. My phone calls to him are know never returned. I tracked him down a few months ago trying to sell laptops, but he said he was washed out. He can't compete with flat screens against Walmart and his buddy with the Brazil connection had lost his to corporate America.