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    Todays E-scrap haul

    I got 16 desktops, 2 laptops, 4 flat screens and 18 monitors. Paid $110 for the whole lot. More of a goodwill gesture to give this scrapper guy insentive to sell them to me in the future. Now that I got the hookup at goodwill to get rid of the glass and its literly 1 mile from my house ill do all the monitors I can. Should make a nice profit of this haul I think. Some of the desktops even have windows xp disks and codes with them.





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    good job man. I need to contact them tomorrow myself.
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    do you attempt to repair/resell better computers?

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    Looks good PTS!
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    Good job, I'm jealous.
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    Nice load.

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    Quote Originally Posted by directrecycle View Post
    do you attempt to repair/resell better computers?
    If I come across P4 or better I would but so far all the crap ive gotten is p3 or older. So I have just been scrappin it. Something your looking for?

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    How much scrap metal can you really get out of these computers? Is it worth it?

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    You can generate from $12-15 out of each one in scrap value but you have to deal in volume, as in hundreds of them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by amanda View Post
    How much scrap metal can you really get out of these computers? Is it worth it?

    Well considering there is a whole section of this website dedicated to electronics recycleing. The short answer to your question is yes. Read the archives and you to will learn the value of this load. Ill be breaking these down today. Ill do a total weight of items I get just from towers and post my expected return rates later.

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    Quote Originally Posted by directrecycle View Post
    do you attempt to repair/resell better computers?
    Most of the gear I get is from repairers of schools etc.. so they are not keen for the gear to be resold after I get it, and certain clients may ask for a 'certificate of destruction' I do that for the schools as the wish to protect/destroy the hard drive data.

    Not sure if this would be reflected by other members?
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    I got this load from a scrapper contact on CL. I gave him a learning on what the stuff was worth. He said he gets anywhere from 3 to 10 a week. We will see how long it takes him to get another load. So I now have 2 scrappers and 1 computer shop I get mats from on a regular basis. Im growing thats all I care about.

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    Well done!

    I found a strategicaly delivered flyer is working well too! I have found that cold calling gets more 'NO's' than anything. Its not that they are actually saying NO, its just they think you will waste there time...

    So I hand deliver a flyer (under door, or in mailbox) outside of business hrs, then cold call a week later asking if they got the flyer I delivered?? if not, well I have copies on hand and we start taking.

    Maybe that could work for you? most have loved the 'free collection' part as most of them seem to hoard a pile in the back corner, wonderig what to do with it LOL

    Good luck!!

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    Ok here is what i got so far broke down the 16 towers took me 2 hours and 20 minutes. Now the crappy part is alot of these machines were not complete. Alot of them were missing HD's and like half of them were remote workstations so they didnt have pci cards and the like in them. Alot of ram was missing from machines as well. I payed what I did this time to the scrapper guy to get him to use me in the future. Little greasin of the wheels if you know what I mean. I also ex0plained to him what it ment to be a complete machine so he knew for the future.

    180 lbs steel at $.10/lb = $18.00
    4.2 lbs of fans at $.15 = $.63
    31.7 lbs of cd rom drives at $.16 = $5.07
    7.9 lbs floppy drives at $.16 = $1.26
    13.4 lbs hard drives at $.85 = $11.39
    47 lbs of power supplies at $.25 = $11.75
    1.3 lbs ram at $11.50 = $14.95
    .8 lbs of p4/amd metal top cpu = about $6
    4 lbs of pci cards at $3.60 = $14.40
    6.2 lbs of alum heat sinks at $.62 = $3.84
    5.3 lbs of wire at $.64 = $3.39
    20 lbs of motherboards at $3.60 = $72.00

    For a total of $162.68

    Yet to dismantle is 2 old laptops or just sell whole for $3 each = $6.00
    18 crt's for about $5 each = $90
    4 lcd screens = ?

    So just in scrap price when its all said and done I should be able to get about $260.00.

    Now to the good stuff. In the stuff I tore apart was
    1 500 watt coolmax power supply $10 on ebay
    7 1gb pc2-5300 ram chips $7 to $10 each on ebay
    4 amd athlon 64 x2 processors $20 plus each on ebay
    1 80gb ide hd $10 on ebay
    1 80gb sata hd $15 on ebay
    1 320gb sata hd $20 plus on ebay
    1 asus pci express video card $30 on ebay
    5 dvdr drives $10 each on ebay
    2 copies of windows xp home edition with key codes $20 each at local computer shop.

    total of Apox $325 if they all sell on ebay. After fees from ebay and paypal should net about $280.00 for a grand total of $540.00

    so for a weekends worth of work
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    -110 cost to purchase load
    -20 for gas
    for a total profit of $410 for what should be no more then 10 hours of total work. we will see how long the crt's take me tomorrow.

    and the keeper is a p4 2.8ghz/1m/800 with an intel d915gav/d915pgn motherboard. I think im going to use the coolmax powersupply, 4gb of the ram, 320gb sata drive and make a set top box for out in my living room.

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    Nice job on the breakdown PTS very helpful and a great payday to boot.

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    Thanks PTS for all the info.
    Do you test all the devices before selling at Ebay? It could take a lot of time to test them properly, just interested if you invest the time, or sell them not-tested for lower price?

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    I will be testing them.

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    Nice haul and nice breakdown report.

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    Nice score. I picked up a couple of loads similar to your last week for free. Cleared a little over 500 and starting to gain a nice collection of processor chips, mainly all 486 and pentium gold caps.

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    cant complain when its free. Ill take all the free stuff I can get as well but why not make money from others at the same time is the way I look at it. if I could get every scrapper in the denver metro area tonot throw the machines as shred and sell them to me for $5 each I could quit my day job for sure. I talked to the one dud at my yard last week and they said they see at a minimum 20 to 30 towers a week get thrown into the shred pile. I think a phone call to the yard boss might be in order this week.


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