Besides eBay and Craigslist, does anyone know of a buyer for laptops that's not .75 a pound. That just blows my mind.....but I guess I'd get more if I rip them down, just trying to see what my options are.
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Besides eBay and Craigslist, does anyone know of a buyer for laptops that's not .75 a pound. That just blows my mind.....but I guess I'd get more if I rip them down, just trying to see what my options are.
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What do you believe that you should be getting much more for them.
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Here is a buyer I have been watching, PM me for more info.Laptop Complete $1.18 *
Laptop Incomplete $0.77 *
Laptop Boards $4.85 *
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A laptop is essentially a motherboard with a built in processor, ram and a lithium Ion battery. There are only 2 pieces of a laptop that you don't sell to a e-scrap vendor, the screen and the case. But leaving those things in tact decreases the value by 75% per pound. I understand, but it doesn't mean I have to like it!
I can take them to the old man and have him rip them down, just exploring my options.
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Motherboard weighs about a half a pound, and tends to be a newer CPU so not worth much. Not to mention the added time it takes to tear one down.
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pick up a universal charger and test them out. I picked up about a dozen from a local school and about half of them work or take very little to be working. p4 laptops should bring about $100 and dual core about $200. apples bring in more.
Send me model #'s and manufacturer, and if they work or not.
I can make you an offer.
OR, send them to us for testing and we will do so and make you an offer.
The above statement from faulguy, although I'm sure well meaning, is missing a lot of qualifiers; ie: Memory, hard drive, screen, cosmetics, chargers, batteries and are they all: Intact, Scratched, Missing, Working condition, Size, etc...
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Good post, I've been asking this too. I have a good source for laptops right now. Potentially anyways. Where's a good place to get rid of these laptop batteries ? I don't have any good place around me.
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my first course on any of them is test and see if they can be used. Besides what Relectrocycle already pointed out, with Laptops you'll need a battery and a charger, desktops you'll need a monitor and keyboard, speakers etc. And also if they don't have a current operating system, that can be a major hurdle, but even as is for a kid to play on is worth more than scrap to me. Or you can list it as is on Ebay, or for parts, maybe do better there too. If scrap's your only option, tear it down, there really isn't that much to it, you can google the brand and model number and a keyword such as disassembly and likely find a step by step for it
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Although the OP was looking for something different. Honestly, I have had more luck listing laptops “for parts” only than breaking them down for recycle. It seems you get a significant portion more per return if you can list two of the same in the same lot. I assume that the buyer believes that any non-working part will be on the other laptop. If you have the space to sit on the inventory I think this is your best bet--unless you want to fix them up
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I decided he was kinda thinking out loudOne think I've noticed about laptops, is that particular problems follow particular models. In other words the parts that first go bad on one are likely to do much the same on the other, maybe not always, but it is certainly common. One case in point, I gave my niece a laptop for college, and after about a year the video stops working. On checking it out, the ribbon cable from the video card to the main board had came loose from the soldered connection on the card. After doing some research I found it was happening on almost all of them. I located some on Ebay, but in queries as to the condition of the cable, got only very vague, unpromising replies. I only found one board in the whole wide world I thought i could trust, it was a still boxed replacement from Toshiba and it was in Australia, i was lucky to even get it, because they weren't being made any longer, and almost all of them had that problem
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