Questions regarding DVD/CD Rom Drives, Disk Drives, etc - Page 2

Originally Posted by jghilino

you can make $70 on a core 2 duo machine as is if it boots into windows, i dont think theres $50 worth of parts there if its not booting

OK thats why im willing to pay $40 bucks for an e8400 3ghz dore 2 CPU and thats just the cpu. Most of them will have a dvdrw that will sell for $10 to $15 on ebay as well as a good size hard drive and ram. I would think you should be able to get that in parts. Granted thats if all the parts are good. Now if its a dell and the power supply check out good you can be talking another $20 plus for that. Im up for a chalenge. My nxt dell core 2 machine i get im going to strip out and sell all the parts see how much I can get out of it.

I have made $50 in parts out of dual core on ebay........15 for processor 15 for hard drive 15 for power supply 10 for memory leaving me a mboard and case left over....All parts worked......I had so many computers I was experimenting with every method of re-sale

oh yeah forgot about dvd player (probably scrapped it)

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

I just happen to have a cdrom drive right here beside me. It weighs 29.35 oz at current shred of 9.5 cents a pound that means its worth 17.42 cents. OK it took me 20 seconds by hand to remove the 4 screws and pull the board out. the new weight of shred is now 27.45oz or 16.29 cents the board weighs 1.91oz I pay $2/ lbs for these boards so this board would be worth 23.87 cents. So i took the value of the unit from 17.42 cents to 40.16 cents in 20 seconds for a diference of 22.74 cents. By my math thats $40.93 an hour. Ill pay myself that anyday.

So basically once I learn more about different systems, I will pretty much know which DVDRom drives will sell on ebay, and which ones to just simply scrap out.

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

Now if you rip of the PCI/ISA ports off the motherboard that will devalue them.

ok, so that answers that question. I will basically leave them on then...thanks.

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

As far as rebooting the machines and selling them hole beeing worth your time. Well thats up to you. If they are dual core machines you can expect to get $100 for them I would guess. P4 machines I bet you would be lucky to get $50 each for them if they are 3ghz machines. Only you can say weather its worth your time or not. Personaly I dont bother reslling machines much unless I have a friend who wants one. Thats why i specialize in the parts GEO and buy them for more than scrap value from the forum members. I tend to discover parts are worth more than the machine working based on time spent getting machine working. I can tear apart a p4 machine in 5 minutes. Takes another 5 minutes to test the ram hard drive and DVDRW on my test bench. Takes another 5 to 10 minutes to list them on ebay using my templates. Takes another 5 minutes to package them up and ship them out once they sell. All in all I would say I mess with one machine a total of 30 minutes. Your not going to get a machine reinstalled and updated in 30 minutes even if everything works perfect. Lets say you get $50 for that p4 machine. Just in parts I got out of that machine ill get $10 for the DVDRW drive, $15 for the 2gb of ram, $12 for the 160gb hard drive. So thats $37 for the 3 good parts sell the rest as scrap for about $6 to $8 depending on how many finger cards were in it. After ebay fees and shipping for the scrap parts your looking at a total sale of $40. Paid 5 bucks for the box so total profit of this example would be $35. Now worst case you would get $10 to $15 in scrap value as it has been discussed 1 million times before.

again, this is where me needing to learn more about the PCs so I can tell what is what will come into play. I just know that most right now, have everything in them with 2gb or ram, and 160 or gb hd.

I would put total time to get a machine up and running from scratch to resellable at about an hour. Granted you can start an install and walk away. Or you can run an image after you have done the first one that will make the others go faster. But once its installed I would want to run a burnin process on it to make sure none of the parts are going to fail after I sold it.

Here is a couple break downs for you GEO hope this will help you figure out if its worth it or not. In your investment business how do you determine if its worth it or not?[/QUOTE]

With my investment company, we primarily deal with real estate deals, lottery winnings, settlements from accidents, annuities, etc. We don't deal with stocks, bonds, mutual funds, iras, etc. We just do every deal that comes our way, as long as the clients accept our terms, as each deal will make us some sort of profit depending on the deal of course.