Before you destroy a working floppy disc drive, try listing it on Ebay first. Sold prices for 3.5, 5.25, and oddball sizes, start at around $8 and some 5.25 externals I see have sold for over $150 !!!
- DO NOT Destroy Working Floppy Disc Drives
Cash In The Trash
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DO NOT Destroy Working Floppy Disc Drives
Before you destroy a working floppy disc drive, try listing it on Ebay first. Sold prices for 3.5, 5.25, and oddball sizes, start at around $8 and some 5.25 externals I see have sold for over $150 !!!
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Holy moly ! I just scrapped a ton of those and even some of those combo 3.5/5.25 drives. Now... I will save them and see if I can
make some more $$$$. Thanks
Remember... wherever you go... there you are
New Guy
I will have to look through all my drives, (got a bunch) and see
what I have. Thanks
New Guy
Is there a reasonable demand which would constitute the time spent posting and waiting 4 the drive to sale? Regardless of what type of Drive and all the other usual numbers, what is your average wait time between posting and the item selling?
Experienced Scrapper
Thanks for that!
Just shipped one out yesterday. Was a common enough model and sold it for about $3.50 after ebay fees and shipping are calculated. Took about ten minutes to test, take the pictures and post the ad and then it just sat on a shelf for about three weeks while the listing was active. Not a great investment but one that took up very little time and space. Better than the two cents I would get for it in the shred pile. Plus those little sales add up after a while.Originally Posted by bwillapierre
New Guy
Agreed, they do add up. I sold about 20 recently to an individual who planned on selling them on ebay.A mix of 20 older ide as well as sata and received $40. At first he wanted to have me allow him to hold the items so he could photograph and list them and pay me a percentage as the sold, but I suggested a lump sum of $40 for the lot and they would be his to do as he pleased. He agreed. We both walk away happy. Apparently there is a market for older drives as people purchase the boards in order to replace there own old drive boards when they fail.From what I gather its a tricky process requiring a dustfree environment to do so, which if is true, sucess rate would be rather low thus resulting in multiple attempts before sucess,and with each attempt a need to locate another identical hard drive board which may be almost impossible as they progress down the line of electronic extinction. In a nutshell, Personaly I would rather sell now for a little less than later for a little more and keep the cycle going. Seems that the more that moves out, the more comes in.
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