People are NUTS

Got a call today off a cl ad. Guy says he has 2 pallets of scrap laptops that he wants to sell. I say ok are they missing parts. Guy states they have no harddrives or batteries. I ask what is he looking to get out of them since they basically have only the mobos left in them. Get ready, are you ready, hope you are all sitting down..........guy says for the big pallet he would have to get around.......$40,000..... But the smaller pallet he would take $27,000. After I stopped laughing I said that I wouldn't even insult him with what I could offer. I also asked that if he got that price to please call me back and give me the number to whoever buys them.

Originally Posted by BigRyan

Wow! I bet you never expected to be hit with a number in that range, or even remotely close to it! I've had some pretty ridiculous calls but this one tops them.

Some people.

I was gonna offer .50 each figuring just getting the boards and screens and the rest going for scrap. That as the oddest call yet.
Phil-I usually run about 50% using cl...glad I could give u a chuckle.

I think he said the big pallet had like 400 and the small one had about 250...so he was looking for around 100 each. I was waiting for him to tell me if I take them all he could let them go for 60 grand...lol...what's certifiable is someone will probably pay him close to what he's looking for....not me.

Did they look like this

No those he was asking too much for...lol

24k gold laptop im so down for a pallet for 40k

The thing is it sounded like he was some kind of ewaste guy since he said that he got them from retailers. I was so taken back by what he was asking that I lost my train of thought and forgot to ask a few more questions to see what his angle was.
Scrap crazy-I still got his number maybe I will call him and see if he is a buyer. If he is then everyone can stop scrapping, buy every laptop at auction, yardsales or wherever and we can all retire...lmao. Of course olddude would be the first one I would hook up with this guy with the amount of stuff he's getting he wouldn't have to breakdown anything and could buy an island and name it scrappers paradise....a vacation spot for everyone here...lol

No that is funny, do you know what your rear end would look like if you could fit the much cash back there....

That's almost like the pallet of computers I bought. When they first started advertising on CL the going price was $450. for each pallet. I bought mine for $100. after them advertising for about 2-3 weeks. I pity the guy that got the last pallet for $100. there was only 27 on it and at least 5-6 were empty. haha