Laptop

What do you pay for Laptops?
What can you make off a laptop?

I did search and find lots of stuff but no general rule of thumb. Like towers it seems common to pay $5 for them. So I was hoping there was common price to pay for laptop. Lest just assume they do not work.

there not ton of money off of 1 ....better parting out or ebay i had very old ones they have more win 2k systems have little more than xp and later machines i pay 3-4 bucks for them maybe 6 but little work i get them working or parts ....

There is a lot of money to be made in laptops in the resell market. I've made about $800 in the past two months on resells. If you don't plan on going this route then you can pay .40 per pound and triple your money pretty easy. My suggestion is to tell the customer the weight per pound and tell them to do the math. Otherwise, if you tell them $2 they normally hang up (or the case of PTS, they start cussing him, lol).

I think the best way to go is tell your customer you need some information to make them a good price. Ask the make and model, what it's missing and whats wrong with it. Take this info and do a search on ebay for that laptop for "parts only". even if it is working, search completed listings for parts only. This should give you a pretty good idea of what you can flip them for. Take the parts only price, divide it by 3 or 4 (or even 5 if they don't sell often) and make them an offer.

Or your best best with any p4 laptops and above, is to email me and ill buy em all... For more than scrap value if working, and if not more than scrap but depending on what type.

Originally Posted by MvPElectronicRecycling

Or your best best with any p4 laptops and above, is to email me and ill buy em all... For more than scrap value if working, and if not more than scrap but depending on what type.

What about old laptop before P4?

Not much i can do with pre p4 sorry

But i will check with someone i know who was offering i believe $5.00 a piece for em.

.40-.70 cents/lb

Originally Posted by parrothead

I buy them for $1 each and get hung up on, and swore at all the time. .

Maybe it was you who mentioned this a couple times. I thought it was PTS.

MvP,
Do you have a way of getting into a laptop if you don't know the password?

google password crack there are tips.

Yes if windows password, email me at jim@mvprecycling.com and ill let you down load the program off my server. You just need to make disc bootable using an application like nero

Originally Posted by MvPElectronicRecycling

Yes if windows password, email me at jim@mvprecycling.com and ill let you down load the program off my server. You just need to make disc bootable using an application like nero

MvP. The email bounced. I sent you a PM.

Originally Posted by parrothead

I buy them for $1 each and get hung up on, and swore at all the time.

I have been getting alot of that in emails lately. I have been replying to all the old adds on Craigslist for cheap computers telling them I will give them $5.
I get back some really funny replies. I am very nice and say just to keep me in mind if they end up not selling it and want to dispose of it.
Some of the Adds I reply to are a month old. If they have not sold it yet what makes them think they ever will.

oops its jw@mvprecycling.com got your pm. email ya soon thanks jim

Thanks to everyone who posted on here. Too often the older people say to the noob to "do some research on here first before asking that question". But the truth is twofold: 1: when i started searching laptops, this thread came up first. Then each subsequent one could have said the same until you have to read/search for hours to find the original post. 2: It may seem like laziness to some, but it is so much easier to just ask a question and get an answer sometimes. And the format here isnt the easiest to figure out if you are new.

Surely, I'm advocating the everyone be diligent in their research, but a friendly response with a quick answer and/or link really helps. This post and the replies given are good examples of helping someone get rolling.