escrap treasures found

Originally Posted by jghilino

There are so many unexperienced scrap sellers out there i make tons of money on them. Im always finding $50 cpus, $20 ram sticks and so on in scrap lots. My best find was a $200 motherboard in a scrap motherboard lot and an $150 i7 cpu on that board, for a $350 find. I feel bad for these people but its not my job to educate them. Alot of times after the fact i do go ahead and tell them how to properly sort the good stuff out from the scrap. What are your best escrap finds?

Personaly I find educating the local scrappers I buy from will make me money in the long run. If a scrapper brings me a tub of 500gb sata hard drives that he just took out and chucked into a tub. I tend to cry and educate him that if he was a little more carefull with them I could pay him $10 a piece for them if I check them out and they are working. So pick your battles I guess. Get the lucky find once in a while for a big score or educate them a little and get a medium score everytime you pick stuff up.

Originally Posted by jghilino

There are so many unexperienced scrap sellers out there i make tons of money on them. Im always finding $50 cpus, $20 ram sticks and so on in scrap lots. My best find was a $200 motherboard in a scrap motherboard lot and an $150 i7 cpu on that board, for a $350 find. I feel bad for these people but its not my job to educate them. Alot of times after the fact i do go ahead and tell them how to properly sort the good stuff out from the scrap. What are your best escrap finds?

I see your point on what your saying and I'm really not disputing that. However I'm inexperienced and I've been throwing away all my boards no matter what they were from for quite some time. I pulled the transformers, copper, aluminum and wires and anything else that goes in a container the rest of the board went into the trash. I never wanted to deal with ewaste. However my dad has finally convinced me to start saving the stuff and just take the time to learn so I can make a couple extra dollars.

I've not sold anything to anyone yet, I'm just now sorting my computer items as I think I've got all the parts straight. I've read multiple posts on how some CPU's are worth a bit more and can be sold on ebay as well, I need to do my research on other parts to learn how to identify things that may be worth a little more than normal.

That being said... I guess if I don't take the time to try and educate myself than I may loose out. However I'm a huge believer in Karma and IMO if I was in your position and I knew up front there was a goody like that in there I'd ask them if they had another to replace the weight and that maybe they should do a little research on that particular one. I would never intentionally screw anyone over no matter how badly I needed the money. Especially if I knew they were going to sell to me on a regular basis because if they all of a sudden realize I knew and never said anything I'd loose a steady customer. Not to mention how many people are they going to tell NOT to sell to me and then I could end up with a huge future loss. Not worth it to me, and I don't want karma to bite my a** down the road.

Are you talking getting that amount of cash for these parts for working parts or for scrap for gold recovery? A mobo might be worth $200 if it's working - but are any worth that as scrap? I don't have a way to test them and usually figure that they are fried when I get them. Are you selling the boards, ram and cpus as untested? It seems that if that is the case that it could be a risky proposition to sell them on ebay.

Also, you do not have a duty to tell people but honesty is the best policy and I agree with AC, not telling them could come back to bite you - if in no other way than that people won't like or trust you and they will sell elsewhere.

I scrapped 2 big office floor model printers. Inside the cabinet was about $400 worth of unopened toner that will get listed on E-bay in the coming weeks. Just been too busy.

Originally Posted by TinnMann

Don't know how to start a post so will just respond to this thread. I guess if you are e-recycling in Missouri got to be careful according to this article i read. Apparently this couple was fined for e-recycling.
Couple is fined for e-cycling in home | AMM | 9/10/2012

I think the key phrase int that article is improperly disposing of waste. I bet they were throwing stuff in trash they shouldnt have been. ALso I find it funny the only article I can find on it is on a paid metal recycling website.

Originally Posted by TinnMann

Don't know how to start a post so will just respond to this thread. I guess if you are e-recycling in Missouri got to be careful according to this article i read. Apparently this couple was fined for e-recycling.
Couple is fined for e-cycling in home | AMM | 9/10/2012

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