What do you pay for Laptops?
What can you make off a laptop?
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What do you pay for Laptops?
What can you make off a laptop?
go do some searches in here on laptops or you are going to get jumped on... just a friendly warning... top right corner of the site has a search box.... all laptops are different and you can make more money if they work than if you scrap them out for parts...
I did search and find lots of stuff but no general rule of thumb. Like towers it seems common to pay $5 for them. So I was hoping there was common price to pay for laptop. Lest just assume they do not work.
there not ton of money off of 1 ....better parting out or ebay i had very old ones they have more win 2k systems have little more than xp and later machines i pay 3-4 bucks for them maybe 6 but little work i get them working or parts ....
There is a lot of money to be made in laptops in the resell market. I've made about $800 in the past two months on resells. If you don't plan on going this route then you can pay .40 per pound and triple your money pretty easy. My suggestion is to tell the customer the weight per pound and tell them to do the math. Otherwise, if you tell them $2 they normally hang up (or the case of PTS, they start cussing him, lol).
I think the best way to go is tell your customer you need some information to make them a good price. Ask the make and model, what it's missing and whats wrong with it. Take this info and do a search on ebay for that laptop for "parts only". even if it is working, search completed listings for parts only. This should give you a pretty good idea of what you can flip them for. Take the parts only price, divide it by 3 or 4 (or even 5 if they don't sell often) and make them an offer.
Or your best best with any p4 laptops and above, is to email me and ill buy em all... For more than scrap value if working, and if not more than scrap but depending on what type.
What about old laptop before P4?Quote:
Originally Posted by MvPElectronicRecycling
If I have to buy them then it's a dollar each.
Not much i can do with pre p4 sorry
But i will check with someone i know who was offering i believe $5.00 a piece for em.
.40-.70 cents/lb
I buy them for $1 each and get hung up on, and swore at all the time. I do however have a computer guy that will pay $10 each for any pentium 4 laptop or better that boots up, so I will now be asking more questions before I give that price out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mechanic688
There is so little scrap value in laptops. It takes much longer to break them down, There is WAY less value in them. $1 is my top limit for a scrap laptop.
Maybe it was you who mentioned this a couple times. I thought it was PTS.Quote:
Originally Posted by parrothead
MvP,
Do you have a way of getting into a laptop if you don't know the password?
google password crack there are tips.
Yes if windows password, email me at jim@mvprecycling.com and ill let you down load the program off my server. You just need to make disc bootable using an application like nero
MvP. The email bounced. I sent you a PM.Quote:
Originally Posted by MvPElectronicRecycling
I have been getting alot of that in emails lately. I have been replying to all the old adds on Craigslist for cheap computers telling them I will give them $5.Quote:
Originally Posted by parrothead
I get back some really funny replies. I am very nice and say just to keep me in mind if they end up not selling it and want to dispose of it.
Some of the Adds I reply to are a month old. If they have not sold it yet what makes them think they ever will.
oops its jw@mvprecycling.com got your pm. email ya soon thanks jim
Thanks to everyone who posted on here. Too often the older people say to the noob to "do some research on here first before asking that question". But the truth is twofold: 1: when i started searching laptops, this thread came up first. Then each subsequent one could have said the same until you have to read/search for hours to find the original post. 2: It may seem like laziness to some, but it is so much easier to just ask a question and get an answer sometimes. And the format here isnt the easiest to figure out if you are new.
Surely, I'm advocating the everyone be diligent in their research, but a friendly response with a quick answer and/or link really helps. This post and the replies given are good examples of helping someone get rolling.
I have been buying old ibm thinkpads w/p4 and xp for $1.50 and selling them to my tech guy for$10.00. Made about 500.00. I think my suppliers is almost out of them though.
I'm stacking mine and if the stack get's too high i'll reduce it by breaking some down but still keep everything except the casing.
I think a lot of pc components are under estimated because at present everything is available in heaps.
won't be too long that pc's will be so small that we won't see electronics like this, we only know what we know,
we don't know what's ahead and what people will be able to do with electronic components 10 years down the track.
it's a shame a lot of stuff is going to waste dumps, but also what is being reclaimed and scrapped, it's not being re-used much,
it's being melted down completely.
one day they won't make these things or they'll be very expensive, those that have them will be building space ships.
everything I scrap is from chance finds but if I had the chance to buy laptops, I think the price of a big mac is fair,
i'd rather have a laptop then a fatbottom.
Yes, unfortunately people on here often throw a hissy fit when someone asks a question.
We dont get a hissy fit it just noobs come ask question that someone has asked in the past and leave the forums.Quote:
Originally Posted by usbrecycling
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Originally Posted by scrapperben
Don't save stuff for too long.. The one thing I have been told 100 times when it comes to computers.. The longer you save it the less it's worth.. (In resale terms). Scrap is scrap and based solely on the materials and the market. But resale is a different animal.. a year ago you could sell P4 towers.. now they are scrap.
the thread starter doesn't seem that new, april join date with 70 posts. now if someone hasn't introduced themselves and this is their first post then thats a different story.
personally i prefer different subjects being brought up. the way i view this forum is by clicking on the new posts button once or twice a day. it gives me one to three pages of new posts, i scan and pick the ones that appeal to me. a constant change in what i will be learning each day. some of it is new material to me, others it is a nice review, and the rest i skip over. my choice to open or not.
jbravo, I am the original trhead starter. Most of the 70+ post have been after this. I am learning and this was an earlyer post trying to learn.
And lets face it the search here is not the best.