Made my first buy at a scrapyard today

No yards in Las Vegas buy e-waste apart from motherboards. But they still end up with quite a bit. So asked at my regular yard a week and a half ago if they had stuff for sale. Lo and behold they have a lot. Told me to check back this weekend. So I went today expecting to buy whatever was available but, without prompting, the guy told me to go through and pick what I wanted and we'd make a price. I was pleasantly surprised by that! Happy to take microwave, tv, and oven boards when scrapping myself or when free but would be very reluctant to pay for them as I'd lose money from the shipping unless in truly massive volumes. The yard got them at slightly over tin price (they paid between .04-05/lb). After setting aside a pile that ended up being 91lbs, offered double cast iron price. They accepted it but I'd forgotten how low cast is out here. I meant to offer about .20/lb so left an extra $5 at the window when I paid for a total of $18.95 and a dozen donuts for what follows below. Please forgive the pictures. Hastily semi-organized into piles in the back of my truck in a scorching sun.

A few sticks of RAM, one little hard drive, some boards from video poker machines, couple of CPUs and more.



Some wireless cards and more



No idea how to grade it. This was a "well that's neat" buy



Some logic boards from video poker machines and more



Not sure about the boards with the Intel chip on them. There's about 8 of them and they look like motherboards lite.





A big stack of these which look like the side boards from poker machines but am not positive



And finally the motherlode, a nice pile of motherboards. At a quick glance a few had RAM and about half had CPUs. Several are older.



Except for unintentionally lowballing I think I did pretty well but let me know if I didn't please. These will go out with a shipment hovering at around 1 ton next week to ewasted. Next time am gonna offer a little more for nicer boards and try and make the math work to take the low-grade boards too. I know they'd prefer to sell to me first if I can take it all off their hands but am not sure I have the capacity yet to take on the quantity necessary to make the numbers work. But the big news from this was that the yard fields a lot of calls every week from businesses wanting to get rid of their IT trash and old computers. The yard, like all locally, doesn't buy them. So they're gonna start referring folks to me! I am pretty hyped about that. So this has been a good Saturday for me so far and I'm gonna go do some laps in the pool to celebrate!