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    Servers. Convince me.

    Pick up a load or computers yesterday and also got 13 servers. 7 of the 13 servers are Xeon units and the rest Pentium 3. I"m thinking part out the Xeon's and scrap the Pentium 3's. From what I am told they all should work unless they are labeled for parts and that was only 2 of the Pentium 3 units. Here's What the labels read someone convince me to part them out VS scrap them. I looked on eBay and found a bunch of Buy it now listings but that doesn't tell me what I can auction them for. I don't want to sit on this stuff for the next 6 months.

    (2) Dell Poweredge 1750
    2 x 2.4 Xeon CPU
    3 x 36 GB SCSI

    (1) Poweredge 1750
    2 x 2.8 Xeon CPU
    3 x 36GB SCSI



    (2) Poweredge 2650
    2 x 2.0 Xeon CPU
    3 x 36GB SCSI

    Poweredge 1850
    1 x 2.8 Xeon CPU
    2 x 146GB SCSI

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    power edges are great this is my average prices so it will vary with better buyers but I do ebay if working about $100-350 each depending on specs but for parts steel of course is nice but heatsinks on ebay $5-10 each fans about $10 for all 5 sometimes I sell each one for $3 but with shipping its better to do lots boards and drives get about $10 there memory $2 each depending on size or more hard drive about $10 working case can be sold but I never get good ones so I cant offer there and don't forget the windows code can be sold to just don't tell them lol

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    That has got to be the longest sentence I've ever read. But thanks anyway

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    Personaly I have found those old poweredge serves arnt worth reselling whole. You can part out the power supplies pretty easy. 36gb hard drives is scrap. Ram sticks if they are 1gb or larger you could get about $4 a piece on ebay. The rest I would just scrap.

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    go back to the buy it now listings and check out the sellers ebay store, from there you can do a completed listings within their store, and see how(and how often) they're selling, and at what price. Might get you a little better idea on where to start

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    From what I see the only parts that are really selling would be the power supplies and they go for about 10-15 each. Motherboards from these might be lucky to get $20 but it may take a few months. Think im just gotta scrap em all and get them out of the way. Might label the power supplies and toss em on the shelf for now.

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    This is a tricky bit of business. I often struggle with putting thing on feebay or scrapping them out. At this time it has come down to time. I just don't have enough hours in the day to play the feebay game. I am considering hiring a retired person to list and watch the stuff. It seems I am missing a huge market out there with feebay, but anymore you almost need a feebay PHD the navigate the whole mess. I wish there were 34 hours in a day...lol
    There may a million better places to live than Iowa, but none of them are home!

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    scrap all of it, those single core xeons arnt anything special, xeon quads are going cheap now less than $20 per cpu

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    Quote Originally Posted by msearl3244 View Post
    This is a tricky bit of business. I often struggle with putting thing on feebay or scrapping them out. At this time it has come down to time. I just don't have enough hours in the day to play the feebay game. I am considering hiring a retired person to list and watch the stuff. It seems I am missing a huge market out there with feebay, but anymore you almost need a feebay PHD the navigate the whole mess. I wish there were 34 hours in a day...lol
    Thats why you find someone like me to buy certian things for more than scrap value and ill pay a little more than scrap for them and ebay them.

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    That sums up my end of it also. I have the time to do the listings and reap the rewards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper View Post
    Thats why you find someone like me to buy certian things for more than scrap value and ill pay a little more than scrap for them and ebay them.
    I also have a computer shop here in the town I live in. We do a pretty good business.
    The thing is I run across a lot of computer hardware that is not consumer hardware.
    It does not make it any less viable as computer equipment, it is just not things the "Average Joe" consumer would be interested in or even know about.
    I think tomorrow I will start another post show what I am talking about.


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