Any opinions on this lot

I am almost done processing all the material which I have and need some more ASAP

Any opinions on how high I should go on this lot
http://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?fa...436&acctid=350

Every time I see those P4 optiplex towers at auction they go for way more than scrap value.

sun servers are ok but most of the ones I have have pinless peocessors in them , very low grade, the heat sinks are nice, tin covered copper about 12 oz each. but they will proly go for twenty a piece plus your cost to pick up, and the monitors are crap. and whats in the boxes?. how many computers and how many servers, just sayin.

Yeah I have been watching these auctions and they always go over scrap value.....Something will come up it always does.....

nothing works quite like going to see it yourself. Then you can look inside one or two to see if they've been stripped of ram and hard drives. I think i can count 28 towers. I'd always set up ones i could and sell locally, just run an ad in the paper. P4's gotta still be good for something. Hek, i'm on a PII right now (because I don't feel like shutting it down and swapping the processor ; ) You can get tag numbers off those dells and put it in a search at dell.com to see what board and CPU speed it's got, what RAM etc. If you can't get there to see em, maybe they'll give you some numbers over the phone? That server might still be re sale-able too, or at least parts from it. I used to buy that old stuff and ship parts all over the world, where they're still using older machines.

Originally Posted by thortek

Mike, I'd go as high as $250. It looks like the pallet is stacked double deep. At $5 each you'll make your money back on the case and a motherboard if it has one. anything else is Profit. That's not including the scrap from the monitors, ETC. I bid on the pCs and take the rest as fluff. If you want to pay nearly full scrap price for the pc's go as high as $10 each, but that doesn't leave you much additional profit, it'd be strictly in the monitors.

Thanks that's what I was thinking $300 MAX

yall see $10 in scrapping a computer? i'd fix em and sell locally. If you've got a corporate xp set up one system, those computers are all the same likely, once you get one set up, updated, and maybe an intivirus program with it, then all you gotta do is run copies to each drive, and the next one's ready. I used to do that with a corporate 2k Pro, and loved having multiple units that were alike. All you gotta run is one ad, soon as the first one sells, set up the next one, phone rings, "you still got that computer?, Yeah, it's settin here ready to go " Sell the same computer ten times over

I need a partner like you BEar...LOL....I'm not much at putting **** together but I sure can tear it apart.....Oh well I just need to buy a lot of these things and try to fix some I guess to see if I can do it

it's easy man. parting out things like that server works well too

I think I just need to get some parts together and try to build one I guess...LOL

computers has been my main thing, i always set out to build them, not scrap em, hek i only found this forum searching for a buyer for some old boards
when i'd buy a whole lot of them, i'd hook em up one at a time and get em all sorted out, that was the fun part, figuring out what all was there