Lithium-Ion Batteries

How much are you getting for your laptop & cell phone Lithium-Ion batteries?
What state is your battery buyer in?
This is a spinroch survey.

I am in the hoarding process currently and have not sold , most buyers I think pay about a dollar a pound.
I rarely pay for them , if I see junk phones at flea markets I will offer them .25 a piece or try to take the lot off there hands if they have a bunch just laying there without chargers ,mostly the old outdated flip style types. I see in the buyer and sellers forum that many buyers pay diff rates for whole phones , lith ion batt or just clean boards. What will make or break you is finding the highest buyer within the shortest distance . Weigh them up and plan out the cheapest way for transport wether you drive or ship .

Southwest Ohio (local) 1.25 If I take them to Northeast Ohio 1.50

My guy in atlanta just stopped buying any except laptop batteries...I got $1.50/lb for those...li ion of course

Northeast Ohio is 1.50 for lap and 1.00 for cell for me

I've been saving Cadmium Batteries also, what is the market like for those?

Originally Posted by Scraphunter224

I've been saving Cadmium Batteries also, what is the market like for those?

Those are worth about .35-.40 a # .

I only get 700-1000 phones a year so I just sell them whole to make it faster but for laptop batteries I save up about 500lbs to ship at a time which I get $1.90lb but shipping and the tape I use brings that down to about 1.30lb as for the rest I do here local sort of about 50miles away but NiCad nicrom and so forth between 30-50clb. best which is the least i get is silver but never reached the point yet to sell enough got almost a large flat rate full so its close. get more silver contacts than batteries lol

Still trying to find a market for li-po batteries.

I get $1.25/lb for Li-ion laptop batteries, and $0.75/lb for Li-ion cell phone batteries.

what about lithium button batteries?

Originally Posted by Mick

My problem with these is shipping. The Post Office won't take them unless they're installed in the original device.

The kind that you find on motherboards?

I'm guessing Fedex isn't a viable option?

Tape terminals, bring OPEN box to a fed ex store...pay for shipping, done.

Are there even terminals on a button battery? lol. Wrap each one in electric tape!

Only way I know to ship batteries is taping the suckers.

I bet that'd be a lot of fun...taping up a thousand of those bloody batteries.

Sirscrapalot - Button it! - Someone to someone else who is talking to much.

I am still waiting on an answer for the button cells, hope fully one will come along. I think I have at least a buckets worth of them.