would you pay $25 for 125 T.V.'s?

Howdy! Been awhile since i've been on here, but had a question for the experts.



I dont like to pay for anything unless the investment is easy to recoup and/or I'm familiar with the equipment. Havent done consumer electronics/tv's in a long time, but had an opportunity come around. In your opinion, would it be worth paying $25-$40 for about 125 t.v.'s and driving 40 miles to get them? Standard 27"+ tube tv's. Thanks!

Well i'm no expert but in the mean time i'll give you my opinion.
if you don't have anything better to do then go for it.
it would take a lot of time say if you were to cruise around picking them up in hard rubbish,
but then again you would be finding other things aswell.

a lot of work moving them around and then getting rid of them.
do you have a place to offload the scrapped crt's afterwards?

if so then what i'd do is reduce the load into single stacking on your truck, take along your drill, bits & side cutters.
place the tv's on, head straight to the recycle depot that takes the crt's, somewhere, like a 7/11 slurpee stop,
neatly unscrew the backs and scrap all the tv's on your truck, takes just a few minutes per tv, screw the backs on again,
put the boards, yolks, cables, speakers & stuff aside, take off again straight into the depots gate, unload the tv's and your done!

drop the goodies off home, have a cuppa and head off again for the next load, when you finally done, you'll be looking at a garage floor strewn with the awesomeness of copper staring straight back at you, the tv's will be just a distant memory.

Depends have a way to get rid of the tube when you are done?

I would only do it if you have a way to get rid of the tubes. They should pay you to take them...

Having that much weight in CRT's may be against local ordinances in some towns. I vote; no not worth it with the condition of: unless you have room, and unless you have CRT disposal ready and waiting, and unless you have plastic disposal ready as well.
As you can tell the main concern is CRT's. The 27 inch is somewhere around 60 pounds, times 100 is 3 tons of leaded glass on your property.

as a side note, they are on pallets, which i plan on taking as well (about 60+)

Thanks for the replies! Right now i have a big vacant building to take all the stuff to and can disassemble at my leisure. The question of the tubes is an important one, as I want to "do the right thing" with all the remaining materials. So, this brings up another question I was going to ask that relates: Does anyone know of a good place around Atlanta area that can take the tubes/plastic AND a good place to take my escrap (from computers i get)? I searched this site for referrals but nothing came up (maybe i'm doing something wrong?). Thanks again in advance...you guys are great

You might find you have to pay to have them take the tube.
Look on the venders here for your other e-scrap

I stopped taking TVs altogether. I couldn't keep up with what I had. Disposing of the tubes becomes very cumbersome.

3to5$ profit on each x 125= 500$ on the high side-25$-fuel-your labor time. 6 TVs per hour breakdown. 125/6= 21 hrs. + your disposal time all said and done 125 tv x 50 lbs 6250 lbs handled twice is 12,500 pounds. 6 tons of lifting Plus break down Plus disposal time. With steel at 200 ton x 6 ton you'd make 1200$ or 3x as much. This is why I haul steel not TVs.

I wouldn't pay for them. I never pay for CRT or tvs.

Thanks for all the input. I'm passing on this opportunity based on what everyone said. Good to learn from others before I make a huge mistake, although there is value in trying.

In a pinch I would definitely pay $25 for 125 tvs. I use 55 gallon steel drums that have the rubber-water proof clamp on lids. After scrapping out all of the goodies I smash the CRT's in the steel drum and seal it up and store it inside my workshop.

With an average of $4 to $5 per TV in scrap value, making the $500 to $625 would pay for about 60% of my monthly bills. So, to each his or her own, I guess.

With the CRT's safe from the weather and sealed away; hopefully in time there will become an environmentally safe (and perhaps profitable) way to dispose of them.

Just my humble opinion.


Happy Scrapping !!!

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

how many 55 gallon drums you have now?

He's on his way to having his very own EPA Superfund site!

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

how many 55 gallon drums you have now?

I have one full one. I have slowed WAY down on accepting CRTs of any type. Neither TVs or Monitors. LOL. I can't become and crushed CRT storage facility.