I feel the need to clarify some things in terms of laptops based upon a load which we received today.
Below is some of the information from previous posts.
P4: Good screen $15 Cracked Screen: $1.10 a pound
P3: Good Screen $8 Cracked Screen: $1.10 a pound
P1 and P2: $1 a pound
For P3 and P4, as long as the screen is not visibly cracked or showing as broken (when you see the wave patterns in it, it is broken), we pay the good screen price. Since the unit does not have to power on, there is no screen test other than showing as broken.
I have been asked several times what happens if a laptop is missing a few items such as ram or hard drive or battery. I always say that if they are missing one or two items, that is okay. However, if they are missing all of the components, it is hard to pay full price. In terms of the cracked screen/scrap units, I state that it must have at least the motherboard.
Today I got a load where for basically all of the good screen units, almost everything was pulled off. The keyboards were removed on some, the batteries were removed on all of them, the memory was removed on most of them, the covers were removed on many, the hard drives were removed and the cd's were removed. OUCH. But the screen was not cracked.
In terms of the scrap laptops, the motherboard was there. However, everything else was removed. The cpu's were removed. The hard drives were removed. The Ram was gone. The batteries were gone. The boards were even taken out of the floppy drives and then the floppy case (at $1 a pound) was put back in the case. Technically, the motherboard was there (even if it was not complete as the CPU was taken out).
Because I do not want anyone to think that I screwed them, I made full payment to the person. However, I need to clarify things for everyone going forward.
For P3 and P4 good screen units. On average, they should be missing at most 2 items. If the hard drive is out of every unit, then the average unit should only be missing one more item at most. (If there are 10 laptops and 8 are missing no items and 2 are missing 4 items, that is fine. The average is less than 2.) For the scrap units, they should not be completely stripped. They need to have the motherboard and the cpu.
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