So what do we do when the computers run out

[mikeinreco]

Just wandering what my next profitable biz will be...........I am thinking about branching out into other things but used electronics and computers sale so easily.........

[BRASSCATCHER]

Scrap cars until they run out

[mikeinreco]

I have done the cars and its ok....Computers much easier to move around with minimal amount of equipment..........Does anyone have an equation that might tell us when either cars or computers may run out??

[BRASSCATCHER]

I think another thread was getting to that point but then it went poof.

[Libertytow]

Yes i call it infinite as that"s why they are recyclable so they can make more

(disclaimer please not the carcasm as a non attack)

[mikeinreco]

Yeah I sat down for dinner and when I was finished it was gone so I never got my answer.......

[happyscraper]

Computers will run out when the world ends.

[corycouch]

I think theres a market for pewter

[mikeinreco]

Computers will run out when the world ends.

Any idea when that will be??.......I need to get this new plan in place quickly if it will be soon

[taterjuice]

Im guessing sarcasm, but not quite for sure piston. Am I hot or cold ?

[sledge]

I think AngelG's most misguided comment was the whole "spend $5000 to make $4000" thing. I recently had a transaction that mirrored those numbers almost exactly. I'll put up $5000 of my money to buy $9000 worth of material every day of the week, netting $4000 in my families pocket. Thanks to a lot of learning I've done on here, that has become something I'm able to do several times a year!

Nearly doubling your money on an investment.. Heck yeah.. I'd put up $5 bucks if I stood to make $10! BAM!

[Re-cycler]

My sweetheart has been in college for the last two years taking IT classes which will be obsolete by the time she graduates and desktop computers are really on their way out giving way to smaller devices linked to the cloud, the cloud is still computer driven but on a commercial scale.
Windows 8 is designed for cloud use.
What this means to me is that all of our information is stored on someone's big computers and we just pay for apps and subs and they feed it back to whatever device we are using.
As far as we scrappers go It looks like they are using far less precious metal in most consumer computers gadgets as technology rushes forward, so as with all gold mines they eventually get played out and we move on.

[mikeinreco]

I frequently spend 4-5 thousand at computer auctions.........I re-sell, scrap, etc....and almost always double or triple my money easily

[Sirscrapalot]

LOL.

You all keep being this amusing and I'm gonna be replacing monitors all week!

Sirscrapalot - I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect. - George Carlin

[badkarma506]

1.we all pool our cash and buy a ship to start scrapping all the containers that have fallen off of the ships over the years.
2. we start hauling all the crt glass to the Hanford site and start piling them up to contain the leaking nuke waste, i'm sure if we piled them all up it would contain it just fine.
3. we start recycling people, solient green style.
4.landfill reclamation.
5.where there are people there will be waste.

[Mechanic688]

I'll bet as it goes along that more of #4 happens. How many huge landfills have filled up and been closed and covered. That alone could keep a few large business busy for awhile.

Set up a shredder/sorter on the landfill site and start running stuff thru, put the fluff right back in the hole.
Anyone want to get larger, now's the time to step up.

[happyscraper]

I know of an old landfill by where I used to live. Back in the 50's a guy bought about 30 acers of land and the first thing he did was cut down all the trees and sold them to a saw mill. Then he dug a big hole and sold the dirt for 2.00 a yard (about 2,000,000 yards) then he opened it up as a dump and charged 2.00 a load to dump. After that he covered it all up and opened a flee market and it is now (I think) the second bigest flee market in the state of Florida. Of course this was before all the regulations started. Now you have to jump through all kinds of hoops just to cut down a tree.

[DWJ]

Can anyone explain to me why my post in this thread was deleted? ADMIN can you explain?

[Re-cycler]

Can anyone explain to me why my post in this thread was deleted? ADMIN can you explain?

He may have accidentally missed mine and nailed yours.
;?)

[mikeinreco]

Well so far the best answer to my question was an infinite amount of material so I guess I'll just KEEP SCRAPPIN!!