Six months ago I paid 34 dollars for a pallet of old emacs......Today My bid is up to $129 on the same machine same amount etc......Someone is getting hip to these old computers......LOL
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Six months ago I paid 34 dollars for a pallet of old emacs......Today My bid is up to $129 on the same machine same amount etc......Someone is getting hip to these old computers......LOL
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"There's god in 'Dem Der Hills..." Err I mean computers. Didn't you hear? Those things have gold in them!
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Thank the reality shows Auction Hunters, Storage Wars, Baggage Wars, Etc. People think that they can make big bucks for quick and cheep! LOL
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Should just leave it to the pros !
Alvord iron and salvage
3rd generation scrapper and dam proud of it
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When people, who can't afford to lose money, start to lose enough money...the buzz will die down.
My own biggest problem is that I watch these shows and think " I could do that...sheesh" but then I watch these shows and think "They are NOT selling that trash for those prices" so i realize "I don't want to do that".
This e-waste biz is the first idea of mine, my fiance has liked. She's supported them all, but this is the first she's liked. I'm going to start using that as my barometer...lol!
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Well I ended up with them for $150..........I easily made well over that last time just going to have a much smaller profit margin.........LOL
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
if you put a serious bid on an auction early, you'll then watch it get devoured bit by bit until it's gone
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Yeah I didn't even bid till the last day of the auction........Paid $7.50 each for these as there are 20 on pallet.........I will have to tear down quick and I'm going to weigh stuff to see how I did and if it is profitable to spend this kind of money on computers....However if you know anything bout these they are crt's as well
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
good luck Mike. I ran out of monitors one time and had to get some locally, so i bid on some in the nashville, or tn one there in nashville. When I picked them up, there were a number of metal gaylord size racks loaded with those, the guy loading trucks saw me looking at them, and said i could have any i wanted cause they were being tossed, i picked out a couple that i could see had hard drives
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The place I'm going I have bought from before and they don't give away anything however I have been to some of these gov surplus places that just want to unload **** and will load the truck down.....What makes this okay is that the pickup is less than a mile from the house
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I've broke down the old Telvidoeo computers. They are the old floppy's with monitors built in. Old board, and wasn't much to be made.
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You done these emacs...I did a pallet before and made out pretty well....Mboard, Low Grade board, Copper Yoke, Lots of aluminum, Hard Drive, Ram, ETC......
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No, this was telvideo I did. About 15 of them. Turned out ok, but took a minute to do. Got the yoke and 1 low grade board, few wires. Yoke was small. I just did a load of DPL tv's. great boards, and copper.
Here's the results of a couple of auctions I was watching. I don't understand how to make money at these prices. I keep hoping I can get one of the winners to get discouraged and sell them to me.
Item No. Description Amount
37 One lot of 14 Dell Optiplex 745 computers. Some, if not all, may be missing parts such as hard drives, RAM, etc. Offered as is. Condition unknown. $462.00
39 One lot of 14 Dell Optiplex GX620 computers. May be missing parts such as hard drives, RAM, etc. Offered as is. Condition unknown. $462.00
40 One lot of 8 HP Compaq d530 computers and 6 HP Compaq dc7600 computers. Some, if not all, may be missing parts such as hard drives, RAM, etc. Offered as is. Condition unknown. $362.00
Total Amount $1,286.00
This was a single buyer. $1286.00/42 towers = $30.61 per tower. Mike.
Last edited by miked; 04-13-2012 at 05:58 PM.
"Profit begins when you buy NOT when you sell." {quote passed down to me from a wise man}
Now go beat the copper out of something, Miked
eWaste Hunter
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At those rates there is not much point scrapping computers. You might as well save them up until you have a bunch, take out the ram, hdd and cpu and then sell them as condition unknown.
I know lying is wrong, but if the elephant man came in now in a blouse with some make up on, and said, "How do I look?" Would you say, bearing in mind he's depressed and has respiratory problems, would you say, "Go and take that blusher off you mis-shapened elephant tranny?" No. You'd say, "You look nice... John""
I have bought some from the state auctions and that's how most of them come, no hard drive, little or no ram.
That's my confusion on the profitablity of buying them in the state they are in. If you buy ram, hard drive, install operating system, add in key board, lcd monitor and mouse $100-150 seems like a lot of work with little return. Also you have to deal with retail customers.
I want to convince myself it a good idea but not yet. The one auction I got was 41 towers for $255 or $6.22/tower not including the 8 lcd monitors that came with. Mike.
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I did 5 yesterday and they all have hard drive and four had ram.....The reason they don't take hard drive out of these is because it's hard to get into them compared to a tower.....Anyway I should make a little dough
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I have been looking at govdeals.com and I noticed at the bottom of page of the auction you are looking at you can send the seller a question regarding the sale. Only draw back is that question and answer is posted for all to see. But I agree with you the prices for what people are paying is out of wack. Only thing I can figure is that 1-they are repair places looking for inventory 2- new to scrapping and will realize shortly they will be in the red or 3- out of all those parts, they are putting together working computers and reselling them at a price that is reasonable at a profit.
I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” John Wayne-- The Shootist
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If Mike the Scrapper gets American Scrapper on the air like he's been pitching we are all screwed!Originally Posted by hobo finds
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Let's all hope that never happens, there's enough people out there now who think they know what they are doing!
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