Unless you're talking thousands of DVD drives I wouldn't pay anything. You're probably better off to pull the boards and offer the scrap yard a payout based on the board weights.



The last time I bought a pallet of monitors from a scrap yard it wasn't very good (lots of broken screens and scratches from just being casually tossed in the bin). If the monitors are neatly stacked or even just set on the floor in a row and they're 22" or larger you shouldn't have any issues testing and selling them. Any monitors 19" or smaller are practically worthless. I personally don't like paying for monitors since they are low value, but when you're down to 2x resale monitors in stock you make exceptions.