Dell tower face plates, would have never guessed

Thanks for the heads up.

Someone else on here pointed out a non-working laptop sold on E-bay for parts for thirty bucks. I told one of the repairmen that I deal with about it and he said he would buy newer laptops ( with Vista or higher) for 20-30 bucks non-working too. I'm always getting new ideas on here!

Okay, a few questions here since everyone is talking about desktops and laptops and selling them broke on ebay.

1. Regarding the face plates, is this for any brand and model, or just dells? I ask, because I have several laying around, and just keep forgetting to load them into my truck for the scrap yard/landfill

2. Regarding the laptops, I always take out the hard drives, but everything else has been kept in. In order to sell them on ebay, does the hard drives need to be put back on? Also, before I realized the easier way of taking out the hard drives, I accidently broke a few of the keyboard cases trying to get to them. Basically, does the laptop need to be in great condition (minus working) to get sold, or does it matter?

Condition matters to someone who wants to buy it for refurb geo. If your just looking for a parts machine I bet condition wouldnt matter. I look at it this way. Most of the people buyiong parts machines on ebay are just looking for a good screen. Any other parts are a bonus. When a new screen cost $50 why not by a parts machine for $20 or $30. IF your breaking laptops to get hard drives out your doing it wrong. 99% of all laptops hard drives are behind a cover that usualy comes off with 1 or 2 screws.

Also, before I realized the easier way of taking out the hard drives, I accidently broke a few of the keyboard cases trying to get to them.

I love watching plastic fly across the room. I also like watching springs from printers fly across the room. But, hey, that's just me I guess.

Id sell a scrap laptop for $10 just so i dont have to scrap it out myself, just saying. The ones i have sold in the $30-$50 range are newer ones like netbooks and core solos. Havnt ever tried selling faceplates or side covers, but it sounds promissing.

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

Condition matters to someone who wants to buy it for refurb geo. If your just looking for a parts machine I bet condition wouldnt matter. I look at it this way. Most of the people buyiong parts machines on ebay are just looking for a good screen. Any other parts are a bonus. When a new screen cost $50 why not by a parts machine for $20 or $30. IF your breaking laptops to get hard drives out your doing it wrong. 99% of all laptops hard drives are behind a cover that usualy comes off with 1 or 2 screws.

I didnt think it would matter, but once again, better to be safe then sorry, especially since I am still limited to the number of items that I can sell.

Yes, I am not proud to admit it, but when I first started with laptops, I couldn't figure out an easy way to get to the hard drive. So after the 3rd one, I googled how to remove the hard drive, and that is when I learned about the screw. Needless to see, I feel like a complete idiot right then. Now, it is easy as anything, and they get to stay in take.

All the ones I have now, minus 3 of them, are newer laptops. I couldn't tell you anything about them, because unlike all of you guys, I couldn't tell you specs on any given computer, unless I could see the properties from the computer menu.

Anyways, I will get them all out tomorrow and check on ebay. Might have a few diamonds in the rough!

"Yes, I am not proud to admit it, but when I first started with laptops, I couldn't figure out an easy way to get to the hard drive. So after the 3rd one, I googled how to remove the hard drive, and that is when I learned about the screw. Needless to see, I feel like a complete idiot right then. Now, it is easy as anything, and they get to stay in."


Don't beat yourself up, George. Almost everything I ever learned about computers, I learned on here -that may be true of others on the forum.

Your post helped me, because I'm still practically having to take a sledgehammer to the @#$%^ laptops, so it's good to know there are easier ways to skin that cat!

Personaly if its a pentium 3 or newer laptop I would leave them whole and sell them straight to ROK. Can get as much as $30 plus each for dual cores and dont have to do anything but ship them to him.

Originally Posted by fivegallonbucket

Rok?

rokrecycling in the buyers section.

Originally Posted by Scrapette

"Yes, I am not proud to admit it, but when I first started with laptops, I couldn't figure out an easy way to get to the hard drive. So after the 3rd one, I googled how to remove the hard drive, and that is when I learned about the screw. Needless to see, I feel like a complete idiot right then. Now, it is easy as anything, and they get to stay in."


Don't beat yourself up, George. Almost everything I ever learned about computers, I learned on here -that may be true of others on the forum.

Your post helped me, because I'm still practically having to take a sledgehammer to the @#$%^ laptops, so it's good to know there are easier ways to skin that cat!

I mainly would just force the keyboard area off to get to the hard drive. Have never gotten a laptop yet without a cracked screen to it, so I figured, what was the point in being gentle lol

But yeah, after I found out about the hard drive compartment, it has made my job EASIER for sure!