I am new to e-scrap and would like to give it a shot. I didn't even know until about a week ago that computers were worth more than low-grade breakage (18 cents/lb). Boy do I feel sheepish. Well, look past the past and move on.
I am a senior at my high school and we got brand new computers about 2 years ago. In the back storage room, there are about 80 computer desktop units stacked against the wall. There are also several laptops and some old servers. I talked to our technician and expressed interest in purchasing them to process them as e-scrap. He seemed surprised that I would be willing to pay for them, but said he would talk to some people. I told him that if he just wanted them gone, I could take them for free, but that was my bad because I already said I'd pay. :s Oh well, you live and learn. Always offer free removal first, I suppose.
Well anyway. these computers are small Pentium 4 units. They have either one or two (can't remember) 512 ram sticks, an aluminum top AMD processor, a hard drive (unless they removed them), a floppy drive, and obviously a CD drive, mother board, and Power supply. After reading up, I see ram goes for about $15/lb and AU AMD processors are about $30/lb. Motherboards are what, like $4.50/lb? As for the hard drives, I would remove the boards, which go for I believe $12/lb. The platters I will sell on eBay and the rest will be AU. But now, my question, what, if any, processing shall I do on the power supplies, floppy drives, and CD-rom drives? And what is the max that you would pay for a lot like this?
Is this a good find? Or am I just being dumb again? I would rather know now and not end up being able to get them rather than assuming I'm hitting a gold mine, buying them, and then realizing I screwed up.
-Jeremy
"Can I scrap it?"
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