Craigslist Payoff :)

I do 90% of my business (both as a photographer & a scrapper/recycler) on Craigslist & Facebook. I'm not a big fan of driving around looking for scrap.....I like to have an address to go to, and get it done. I also have been primarily focusing on computers & the like.

Saves me gas, & frustration.

So yesterday, I scheduled two pickups about 40 minutes away from where I live.........wound up with 10 monitors, 30-some PC's, bags of extra parts & wires galore, 6 laser printers with the cartridges....



Good thing I'm good at packing! I don't think I could have fit one more thing in my Grand caravan!

Nice! What will you do with the leavings after you break these down? Or are you going to try to sell them?

The monitors I (very carefully & with goggles & insulated tools) remove the copper, wires, etc from for scrap. Then I put the plastic shell back together. Staples takes Dell monitors for recycling for free, I spend about $15 recycling the other tubes/plastic at a local dump/recycle center that charges by weight, not by unit. I save the low end boards and turn them in locally when I have 300+ pounds of them, as we have a local e-waste drop off place that will buy in large quantities (300 pounds minimum) The prices there aren't the best, but for the low end stuff, it beats paying shipping!

The PC's themselves, I strip & sort by age of the components.....anything that is fairly recent I check to see if it's working, then either sell or use for a build. I will sell the high grade boards & components online...I already had quite a bit before this haul. My goal is to try to sell the boards & stuff once a month, and take copper & aluminum to the yard once a month. Every Friday I turn in my tin & wires....usually I have around $150 right there.

The systems I got are really too old to sell. P1, P2 stuff......great scrap, but not real useful in today's world, computer-wise.

nice haul . keep at it!

Good going Rgirlie....thanks for updating us....I thought of u the other day when I saw the carcass of a squirrel hanging out of a hole in a tree in my yard....broke my heart that I did not see him soon after he got stuck there, and possibly saved him...either way, it would have been a photographers dream. I tried with my phone camera, but just couldn't do it justice.

I get some action from craigs list, but it is a pain in the A--. when I started using it a couple of month ago I was the only one wanting e scrap now there are five others "
we will pick up your computer scrap" Im still the only one who pays for it so the give me guys faithfully flag my posts every couple of days. pluss 4 out of five calls are people wanting to sell me out of date "working" computers for 70 or 80 bucks even tho Ithe add clearly states $5 for DEAD COMPUTERS.

like easy always says with computers it has to be volume. What I am doing is subsisting on regular scrap while trying to build my e waste business.

Originally Posted by GeorgeB

What ways are you using Facebook to drum up business?

I have business pages......one for my photography, one for my e-recycling. I also have an ad for my e-recycling on my photography business page........ Sometimes I run little contests, drawings for a free 20 minute mini session, and I make sure that my e-recycling ad is front and center. So when I add that sharing on your wall gets you two extra entries, my add goes out onto the walls of all of their friends, etc.....