Nope. I used to buy computers from them, then prices went to crap. I dont really care about ewaste. It just takes up room in the garage as far as I'm concerned.Originally Posted by RevenantDusk
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Nope. I used to buy computers from them, then prices went to crap. I dont really care about ewaste. It just takes up room in the garage as far as I'm concerned.
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I see, to each their own I guess. Here in NY all the yards Ive heard of buy PCs at 15 to 20 cents a lb. I used to completely dismantle the whole PC and sell the motherboards online but with prices the way they are now I just pull the wires, CPU, RAM, finger cards and hard drive and sell the rest for 20 cents a lb as a PC. I don't find it worth it to ship the MBs anymore with the low prices. I figure most motherboards weigh a lb or maybe 2 if you're lucky, and if I take the the MB out the power supply will go 10 cents a lb for breakage and the rest is light iron at 5 cents a lb, MBs are a dollar a lb at my yard. So I make more money if I sell the case with the MB inside and also the power supply and CD drives since that's most of the weight. I found a server recently, I pulled all the wire, cards and most of the hard drives, the MB was so tiny it probably weighed a little under a lb but the case was thick heavy steel, didn't make any sense to pull the board imo so I just sold it for PC price at my yard.
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Why don't you work a deal with another area scrapper to maybe trade computers for their steel, copper, or alum. At least someone could use them besides "the yard".
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WOW...that is crazy talk around here! LOL.....wish I was near you, I would take all of it off your hands.
I make GREAT money with WAY LESS effort off ewaste. 100 lbs of steel...$5 (YES FIVE WHOLE BUCKS)....100 pounds of motherboards...WELL in excess of $100....not even close. Plus loading enough steel to make a difference means kicking my a$$ plus gas and time to drive to the yard. I can do all the ewaste I want in my garage if I wanted to and make far greater paychecks.
Of course, my opinion. I have ZERO desire to kill myself with scrap metal.
PROFIT is made when you BUY/ACQUIRE NOT when you sell
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