Latest Ewaste Pickup

Can't wait to go through this load of mostly old stuff. Unfortunately won't have time till Wed. Probably overpaid a little, I am a sucker for the old stuff. Interested to know the final weight totals...

I paid $310.

I know I overpaid for the newer stuff but think I did good with the older stuff. Bad pics but thew trailer is mostly old computers. Stuff on the ground is newer stuff.

Thinking there is around $500 to $600 worth of scrap so not much profit margin BUT I got a good contact as it came from a local tech guy that does computer repair and he said he will contact me with anything else he gets. Got a lead already for me about a place around 30 miles away that may have at least 50 old computers.

Will update with totals as I get them to see how I did.

you made some money

Originally Posted by bpatnoe

I paid $310.

I know I overpaid for the newer stuff but think I did good with the older stuff. Bad pics but thew trailer is mostly old computers. Stuff on the ground is newer stuff.

Thinking there is around $500 to $600 worth of scrap so not much profit margin BUT I got a good contact as it came from a local tech guy that does computer repair and he said he will contact me with anything else he gets. Got a lead already for me about a place around 30 miles away that may have at least 50 old computers.

Will update with totals as I get them to see how I did.

I look at it more about helping a person out. The guy was in a bind. He has a kid on the way and his car just crapped out. He easily could of asked for assistance from the town but does not want to unless he needs to.

Good job! Its also nice to know that you're helping a guy out aswell.

people aren't fixing their computers these days, they just toss it and buy a new one

You have that looks like a desktop curved face Gateway2000 (486 or early Pentium) that looks mostly intact, you might want to ebay that if it works and you can clean it up.

$300 might have been a bit much for if all goes to scrap but I'm sure you have some things in there that you can resell. I think it was worth it to roll the dice on this one.

Will see once I get a chance to go through it. I know one box has 20+ pounds of just finger cards. Also probably 50 or more pounds of HDDs.

I am going to keep count of the weights and go from there.

On larger loads like this I look for at least $100/day profit. I figure there is 3 days worth of work so am aiming for $300 profit. For businesses I try to make more like $150-$200/day.

There is more in life then a large pay day in my opinion. Helping people out goes a long way. I can tell you that I am getting more business than one of my competitors because I am being fair with them and not screwing them over.

You'll make money, I would be surprised if you didn't double your money. I cann't see every thing but I see alot of cables and electric cords on that trailer. If you have a local buyer for the lower grade stuff you sould do pretty good.

Originally Posted by unknownk

You have that looks like a desktop curved face Gateway2000 (486 or early Pentium) that looks mostly intact, you might want to ebay that if it works and you can clean it up.

Yup, I sold one of those on Ebay a few months back for $100 BIN. I listed it late one night and it was purchased early the following morning. The Buyer even paid to have it shipped Fed-ex Air which cost him an extra $100+. If it works you should get 1/3 of your investment back right there.

Spent most of today tearing the stuff down and processing it.

I am sending roughly 130 pounds of stuff out tomorrow:
Motherboards - 60 Lbs (mostly green, Probably 10 Lbs of low and 5 Lbs of Server)
Finger Cards - 35 Lbs estimate
HDDs - 30 Lbs estimate
Other Boards - 5 Lbs (Finger Cards with no metal and many IC chips on them, Telecom?)

Still going through everything else but kept on getting interrupted.

Have not even got to the processors or RAM and still have more to tear apart.

Also found 1 old computer with 3 processors in it. All Intel Gold (386, 2 gold bottom Intel's but don't have a 386 label on them) Anybody found one before?

Originally Posted by bpatnoe

Spent most of today tearing the stuff down and processing it.

I am sending roughly 130 pounds of stuff out tomorrow:
Motherboards - 60 Lbs (mostly green, Probably 10 Lbs of low and 5 Lbs of Server)
Finger Cards - 35 Lbs estimate
HDDs - 30 Lbs estimate
Other Boards - 5 Lbs (Finger Cards with no metal and many IC chips on them, Telecom?)

Still going through everything else but kept on getting interrupted.

Have not even got to the processors or RAM and still have more to tear apart.

Also found 1 old computer with 3 processors in it. All Intel Gold (386, 2 gold bottom Intel's but don't have a 386 label on them) Anybody found one before?

Pretty much all 386 computers had a socket for a 387 math coprocessor and a few might have had Weitek processors (rare and definatly not for scrap).