did i make a mistake -auction win

Im paying for this in the morning. Did I make a mistake bidding on it?

Parts Lot of 18 Computers 2 Laptops 3 Servers 20 Monitors | eBay

I guess it depends on what you are planning on doing with the items.

All of the hard drives have been removed.

Scrap wise, I think there is no money to be made when you consider your time and costs. If you plan on selling the parts/refurbishing there is some money there, but not a lot depending on what parts are in the computers and your market.

Seems to me if you just counted the desktops and servers, you paid $10 each for them. Plus you got all the monitors, which can be good or bad.


I recently got a similar load minus monitors and am shooting at a net scrap price of $300 or so after sorting. Of course I am a one man operation as of now and used my economy car to pick them all up, as well as paid quite a bit less.


Also I see to the left of the picture of what appears to be a box of Cat 5e/6 cable. If that box is full and is included, it would be worth reselling.

I suppose i've paid more, for less. just do the best you can with it. Good luck!

Nope Good enough Deal Congrats

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

..... Well if the LCD monitors work I sell them pretty good on CL for $25 each. So if they all work you can get most of your money back right there.

I've had no luck selling my monitors on CL. I've got 17's listed for $20, 18's for $25, 19's for $30, etc. up to 22" Flat Screens. Various makes but mostly Dell, nothing wrong with them. Not one bite in 2 Months of posting. I'd rather not try Ebay because of the packing and shipping headaches.

Originally Posted by kane333

I've had no luck selling my monitors on CL. I've got 17's listed for $20, 18's for $25, 19's for $30, etc. up to 22" Flat Screens. Various makes but mostly Dell, nothing wrong with them. Not one bite in 2 Months of posting. I'd rather not try Ebay because of the packing and shipping headaches.

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These county surplus auctions (on-line and in-person) can be a bit rough. In my experience with these, the monitors will most likely be dead. The towers might be stripped shells or mostly full. Depending how old the tower is typically determines if it has a hard drive or not (older yes, newer no in my experience). Ram might be missing, etc. When I bid on a lot like this, the monitors I don't even consider in the pricing. I bid based on the towers and "other stuff" only. I also bid expecting to be missing some stuff in the towers. This is just my opinion but you paid 3 times what you should have. I wouldn't have gone over $3-$4 per tower. Your going to have pick-up costs, time to break down and seperate, shipping out costs, time to run the yard materials out........not to mention the overall market conditions are getting weak. Again, it's just my opinion but no way I go that high on that lot.

If you bought these as scrap items, it's going to depend on who you sell to and how much they pay. My local e-scrap buyer pays well and I could make my money back plus a little profit.

I argee with most others, probably you overpaid a bit if buying for scrap only.
Towers $4 x 18 = $72, servers 3 x $10 = $30, 2 laptops another $5 for a total of $107, this how I would calculate. For the monitors, I count as zero, whether they work or not.

You can still make your money back, but there won't be much profit.

I don't think i'll ever come to terms with buying stuff but i guess i'm spoilt.
looking at his items sold and what he's got, he's a scrapper like all of us, if he was to come online here,
tell us of his "big score", and ask what's the best thing to do with 18 towers that have had their h/d's removed already?
the answer would probably be, see if you can sell it as a lot on ebay.

But he's not a newbie, knows the inside out of a pc's a-hole, makes it clear he knows what's not in it, I bet he knows every cpu too.
yep, just a scrapper getting top dollar, he's a star, I love his dodge ram van he's selling, you's are lucky that your vehicles are so cheap in america, maybe it's because they put the steering wheel on the wrong side, wonder if he'd send it to me in a container? would that be possible? how much would a container be to australia? $500?

I was thinking about how some would go about it, I bet there's people building pc's to sell as lots.
they get towers, scrap 'em out of their goodies, slide in some junk finger boards every now and then and
they have themselves a pc ready for the bulk pallet, when the pallet is full, they wrap it up and sell it at clearance auctions.

the only issue here really is you've asked the right question too late, no point asking when your about to part with your cash.

Here the deal when it comes to scrapping or buying, The old saying in my book, at one time You'll pay too much and another time You will hit the Mother Lode, it all comes out in a wash at the end, but the kicker is, You got to learn from what you did to prevent it from doing a oopsie loopsie.

You did great, even tho I thought I read harddrive is removed, you still did good, boards usally about 1 to 1.5 a piece x that by 4bucks per say, or 2.5-0 if chi boards, then You got power supply about 4 lbs, some or lighter so avg, 2.5lbs, then you got memory, hope its full slotted, but its ok if not, takes about 25 to make a pound, now If my thought are correct You should get RD Ram in those Dell, that makes em heavier, and easy money.. there, then you got rom and floppy drive, a couple pounds there, then the case, not worth much but it adds up,,, then You have the cpu, hopes its an oldDude Sorry buddy.. had to use your name here, but ceramics it worth more, but by the looks of it, its small socket save them in a cpu tray, some people buy them for resale not much but it can add up, and lastly I belive is the cpu cooler, some have COPPER in em.. but if anything extruded alum.. its about 65 cent a pound right now.. You got cat five wire, Dude, You did well, but just remember be careful, I usally pay 30cents a pound with everything in it, if its just one thing missing 25cent a pound, and one more thing servers, Power supplies, and mother boards are weight just as well as the case, I don't pay 30 or 25 for servers, I pay 20cents due to the weight,, it all comes out in the wash.. again good job.. and keep at it You doing great.

MR G

Not too bad......... I would have made money on the deal; not as much as I like but better than breaking hard drives or cleaning transformers from low boards like some do here. Guess it comes down too did you have anything else available that would have netted more.

What model are those older laptops?