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    Your prices are a little off...probably by more than you want to believe they are...and it makes the price seem worse. Although I think you should get around 40 bucks for the steel...P4 generation is the gen of least recovery as its in between old larger socketed boards and newer reusable material.

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    You cheated yourself on the motherboards, unless I missed something. 55lbs of motherboards at 1.85$ = 55$. Shouldn't it be 101.75$

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    Local scrap buys $.25 a pound for complete PC's, assuming average tower is 10lbs we'd get $2.50 each (100 total). It took about 4 hours or so to break down the 40 pc's which means we make $250 scrap - $100 complete) $37.50 per hour if pc's are free. We still have our time to pickup and dropoff to scrap. We're going to dropoff tomorrow and compare to see if we get what we measured.

    We have about 50-100 more desktops, 100-200 servers, and racks of cisco gear. hopefully we'll be able to make more hourly on the enterprise gear.

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