$12.00 per tower??

Maybe he's dealing with someone big enough to eliminate one of the steps in the chain. Or one of the middlemen, if you will.

that is the rough scrap value per tower as long as it is complete!

I had a company tell me one time that they were getting. .55/lb for aluminum. I asked the owner of a local yard at the time who pays the highest around here and he said the guy was lying.

if he can't provide proof he just wants to get top notch

best advice I have , just forget it and move on. I wasted a month trying to deal with one of those guys when I first started.

resell is the answer to this question. If he is getting p4 and higher towers they can easly resell for $50 or more. So there is now way he is selling to a scrapper for $12 each. JMHO

Guy is full of it. If he was getting 12 per tower then how much more is he looking for? Sounds like someone was looking for free info in regards to scrapping. Next time tell them for that qty you would like to meet in person and see what they have, if it is legit cool, if not you will know it when they make up excuses to not meet.

Top dollar for whole server parts that I found was .40-.44#. I never heard of any yard no matter how much you contract for,paying more than .20 to .23# for towers. Maybe I'm wrong but no one is paying $12 per tower unless they are reselling.

I just saw an auction of 1284 towers sell for $45,000 bid plus 10% buyers premium plus shipping. So your talking $50,000 plus. Thats about $39 a tower. Granted they were all pentium 4 or better machines with no hard drives. So there is money in resell if you have the time and space to rework all of those machines.

Sounds like he is getting $12 a tower to someone who is still reselling parts from said towers. Most of the refurbers I know throw a hard drive in the machine and if it boots up they sell it. If not they move onto the next one. At $12 a tower another refurber may take the time to test the individual parts and make 1 good comp out of say 2 or 3 of the non salvagable ones? Just a guess here but I can see that logic. Either that or the person paying $12 a tower like to only make $1 each if that

OK. I keep hearing all of this stuff and see it myself on Govdeals and such about high prices being paid for P4 towers and such. I do know that in some developing countries P4 are still valid consumers machines. I have even sold a few in my shop in the last couple months. Now if the machines they are buying have a DVD burner then they can get their money out of that alone. Especially at $12.00 per machine with the burner having a retail value of around $15.00. That would leave the rest of the machines for their scrap value. Here in the real world I just don't have the cash flow to have hundreds of burners sitting around waiting for a home.

Right now I have 50+ Gateway Core 2 Duos sitting in my shop waiting to be sold as builder computers. I kept them because they are all SATA including the lightscribe burners. But in reality I have scraped hundreds and hundreds of P4 machines that would still work, but I just do not have the connects yet to ship them to some 3rd world country or the time to wait while sitting on money I have invested in them. Generally I have not had to buy machines. I pound the pavement and work with all of the local schools and private colleges and have so far been able to keep a steady stream of machines and equipment coming in like that. I do watch the auctions pretty close and have bought a few things that tickled my fancy. But for real it is as much about me staying right sized as anything.

I would try to find their connect if they are getting $12.00+ plus for machines. It would save me a lot of work tearing them down. The same is true for all of the rumors about monitors being bought. I keep haring that stuff, but find myself on my way right now to start tearing down some of the 4000+ monitors I have now just to get a few out of my way. Such is the way of life. But all told it is not a bad life.