the only reason you should break down a cell phone in my opinion is to recover gold bearing material otherwise sell them and skip all the work. if someone will pay good prices for whole phones which most of is plastic then by all means make some money and get some more scrap with the time you save. Sirscrapalot has it right the newer smart phones will bring a much better price as resell or salvage prices although if you are going after gold bearing material these phones have a lot more in them then the cheaper old phones in most cases. As far as profit/loss to whole phones or boards lets look at a single phone. single phone with battery is about 1/10 of a pound at $6.25/lb = 62.5 cents a phone and a single board about 2/100 of a pound at your high price of $15.20 a lb = 30 cents a board. so as you can see breaking down a cell phone for any reason other than gold recovery is a losing endeavor! if you are looking to make good money put the smart phones on ebay or sell them at the machine at the mall these will bring you the best prices! all others dont even bother to open them up just sell them by the pound unless you are curious or mad sirscrapsalot hehehe!
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