Buying e-scrap advise plz

I just came across a good business deal and I need to offer him some prices. I offered $3 to $4 per tower depending, but I am wondering what some of you would pay for things like:
Printers
keyboards
mice
cords
monitors
etc etc.
I know, normally, you would take these things for free. But If it came down to getting a bunch, and a consistent supply, what would you offer to get the gig? per unit? per lb? I am unsure if he gets paid for these things at all, as of now. but I'm thinking i'll take the monitors for free or no deal. But the misc computer scrap is what I am unsure about.
Thanks for any advise. And wish me luck!

Still nothing. Monitors...if CRT... strongly consider all aspects of the arrangement before even accepting them for free. I did have a convenient outlet for the glass, but now I do not....so I only accept them rarely.. specifically when accompanied by large amount of more valuable items.

I think most of us have pulled in loads and ended up with hundreds of pounds of waste that has little value, but must still be dealt with.

Take the mice cords and keyboards for free to offset the monitors (as long as you can get rid of them...ie best buy or goodwill recycle program after stripping). Printers can be worth money as parts machines or if you pull the trays ect and sell on ebay along with the cartridges....maybe if you are generous $1-2 per if you are comfortable moving those and you are not haveing to deal with pallet loads of them. I take printers whenever they show up and make money on them every time. Bonus if you have a plastic buyer or even a recycler near you.

I don't pay for Keyboards, mice or cords. If you throw them in as part of the deal, I will take them. Printers..if the cheapie home kind, again I don't pay. I don't get the big commerical ones everyone on here talks about. If I did it might be a different story. CRT monitors I will take as part of a load, or if my thrift store clients have some that need to be gone. Luckily I can drop the carcasses off at my landfill, as they recently changed their policy an stopped charging for such. Same with TV's. Again I only take them tho with other stuff. Otherwise I've instituted a 5.00 charge per tube to offset my gas. Driving to the landfill with 50 odd tubes in a van is a killer on the ol'mpg, not to mention my back..lol.

A good example..Bought a load awhile back..60 something towers. Dude tossed in about 300 keyboards, I don't even know how many mice( I still haven't got around to cutting the cords off..heh) but a big box of'm! Along with a bunch of speakers for PC's. That was all free goodies except the towers. The keyboards I broke down for the mylar, and I was happy with the profit I made on them. The speakers..well they suck..the cords are good, but lots of plastic. I can say I won't need magnets for a good long time tho..LOL.

I've toyed with the idea of buying wire/cords, at lest locally. Not sure how well it'd work statewide cause I know I wouldn't pay as much as the yards do. Once I get to thinking about implementing my cord buying strategy, my thrift store contacts give me a ton an I put buying them on the back burner..why buy if you can get'm free.

Just how I do it..an what works for me may not for you or others.

Sirscrapalot - One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. - Robert A. Heinlein

Monitors, keyboards, mice, and small printers to me are mostly rubbish that leaves me a pile of stuff there's not much I can do with. My limit is basically one each per tower, strictly one each per tower for CRTs

Thanks for the input. I do have a free crt disposal place. I'm thinking of paying shred price for printers. and hopefully he will throw in keyboards and stuff. Hopefully.
I'm looking for some numbers on keyboards. How much you can get for silver mylars? and how many make a lb.?
I will talk to him later today and hopefully close the deal. I'll let you guys know how it worked out.

Edit: found the mylar info with search function

I wouldn't pay for any of the things you listed but would take them off his hands if he wanted them gone. I don't know what you plan on doing with the printers, maybe your yard will take them whole as shred if so don't pay shred price for them. If you are going to brake them down your not going to make much more than shred after you put in your time braking them down. If you have to buy them in order to land the deal then don't pay more than .04# or half of shred price. Crt monitors, if you have a place to get rid of the tubes for free then .50-1.00 ae tops. Key boards take about 25 to get 1# of mylar but remember not all key boards have mylar, I think the older IBM's had steel plates with a circuit board and all the keys are soldered on to the board with the steel plate in between. Also some buyers of the mylar won't buy the mylar that have the black line or dots on them. Mylar was going for 4.00# until silver prices dropped, the last ones I sold I got 3.00# but they might have gone down again. Mice I would not buy at all, nothing in them except for a small low grade board. Cords I would pay 50% of your yard price. I would not pay more than 3.00 for towers unless they had gold cap processors and at least two sticks of memory, less if they colored mother boards. It might work out better for you if you could put everything together and offer him one price for everything. But then that's just what I would do. Good luck and let us know how things work out for ya.

I wouldn't pay more than $4 per complete tower.
Every complete tower would include a keyboard, mouse, power cables and 1 crt.
Charge for any crts that do not have a tower with them.
Everything else is free removal.

When I have absolutely nothing going on I have been known to pay up to 50 cents for a monitor. Only when I'm desperate though.


Mice, keyboards, speakers, printers, cords, and everything else I try to get for free. If they are set on getting paid something I offer $0.02 per pound.

Well, I got the gig! We haven't sorted out all the details yet, But I will get the extras with the purchase of the towers.
Thanks guys. This is my first big step, and I thank SMF!

Congrats!!! Let us know how you make out. How many towers did you get?