escrap questions

I have been seeing more and more people doing like you described. Selling some of the towers to guys for far more than scrap prices.
What kind of guys do you sell to? Computer repair?
I am going to be start working on building my network of those kinds of buyers.

I did that for a short while. I was contacted by a young man (computer geek) about my parts. Then he would take a few computers and rebuild them with some of my better parts and we'd sell them and split the profit. He moved quite a ways away so I'll have to go looking around again for another hobby/tech because I knew some of the computers looked really nice to be junking them. I made $115 off of 3 pieces.

Originally Posted by Scrapcrazy

Multiple people on the forum suggested I try to sell before scrap. I was hesitant cause I didn't know too much about computers bedsides tearing them apart. Then I simply posted "lots of misc. Computer parts" on Craigslist. The next day I had a guy over drooling over my piles. He was a refurbisher. He basically begged me not to break any more down till I called him. Since then I've met a few more guys. All refurbishers. They tend to be interested in all of my stuff less than 4 hrs old and almost all my lap tops. I have multiple hospitals I get computers from and they seem to get rid of a lot of newer stuff. Im working with a 600 bed hospital right now, by years end they will have replaced all their older towers, leaving me over 800. One of my refurbishers takes scrap from his other guys he buys towers from as a "favor" and gives me all of it. In return I give him a tower or two. It works out great.
Another thing I do is place all of my empty towers on Craigslist as computer scrap metal for free. I do this with hopes of meeting another refurbisher who is looking for empty towers, hopefully he'll want to buy. At a minimum, I meet people who say they'll swap me a few full towers for my next load of empty 50. This is my source of networking.

I was figuring that craigslist would be the best way of doing that.

I think that is what I am going to do here soon, is place a few ads on craigslist to get them to contact me. Then find out what specifically they are interested in the most, and be on the search for those pieces.

I have a lot of ewaste buyers around the area alone just for scrapping them, so I want to find some that will pay maybe better than scrap prices too.

It seems like almost every 3 or 4 junk hauling job that I have been doing now, I am getting between 1 to 3 pcs. It has been great.

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

I did that for a short while. I was contacted by a young man (computer geek) about my parts. Then he would take a few computers and rebuild them with some of my better parts and we'd sell them and split the profit. He moved quite a ways away so I'll have to go looking around again for another hobby/tech because I knew some of the computers looked really nice to be junking them. I made $115 off of 3 pieces.

Yeah, that is why I would want a few contacts. When people buy stuff from me now, I always ask them, what else they are into it. I created a database and add to it, when I get new buyers, and in the database, I have what they search for it.

I am also doing that, because next year, once we get our takes back, I am taking between $500 to $1,000 and getting involved in storage auctions around here (Yes, I watch storage wars, and storage wars texas, but I am more realistic than that).

I just live in an area where storage places are as common as anything else. Plus, a friend of ours used to be storage managers, and another friend is a current storage manager, so I have good connections already.