Are people really paying $1.00+ per pound for old laptops?

**msearl3244** · 09-04-2012, 12:08 AM

I see the ads on here of buyers paying $1.00 per pound and even more some times for old laptops. I have over 800lbs of complete laptops and another 100lbs or so of incomplete. I dread tearing them apart! I hate doing laptops.

Some of the old laptops are pretty heavy. I just can not see the value in them. Others must be up on something I am not. They just keep stacking up in my shop like an unwanted chore. I must admit though they are much easier to store than CRT monitors or those heavy eMac computers I loathe also.

**hobo finds** · 09-04-2012, 12:13 AM

If you have that many lbs should be no problem getting $1 per lb.

**Mechanic688** · 09-04-2012, 12:19 AM

The only problem I see is the shipping might eat up a good percentage of your profits, unless you pack up a gaylord and have it truck shipped. Someone mentioned that sending their product by truck cut their shipping in half.

Unless you have someone close to you buying them.

**msearl3244** · 09-04-2012, 08:23 AM

I am in a position to be able to take them myself as long as it is a reasonable drive. A few hundred miles is not much for me. I come from a trucking background.

When I moved my partner out here from Indianapolis he thought that was a long long trip, but I drove it straight through round trip.

Like I said earlier they are easy to store and just keep stacking up. I log the weight and put them on the pile when I get them in so storing them is not such a big deal.

But I will have to unload them at some point. I have them in a gaylord now.

I do tear into one every now and again as I find something unusual or interesting. We looked at one last night called a Fieldwork 5000 series. The darn thing weighed in at 10 lbs by itself!

The system was tighter than any ToughBook I have ever seen.

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**unknownk** · 09-04-2012, 04:36 PM

Have an old IBM Thinkpads? I collect those. Can't see there being much profit taking them apart.

**curlzcopper** · 09-05-2012, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by unknownk

Have an old IBM Thinkpads? I collect those. Can't see there being much profit taking them apart.

I have a few I'll sell you if interested. They're heavy, that's for sure.

**Craasher** · 09-05-2012, 04:04 PM

I just mailed in 65 pounds of laptops and got $1.00 a pound for them. It cost me .38/lb for shipping FedEx. So basically I made .62/lb off of them.

One estimate I had in another discussion about shipping was a gaylord would have probably cost me about .10-.15/lb less so I would have made that much more i just don't have that volume. I checked the distances and it is about 100 miles further for me to ship to where I sent them than you so I would estimate your prices would be slightly less. Figure that up with a 635 mile an hour drive and how much it would cost you in gas there and back and divide that by the weight and see if its better to ship or drive. If you figure it at .25 cents a pound with 800 pounds and you can spend $200 or less in gas its worth it to drive.

**unknownk** · 09-05-2012, 07:50 PM

Originally Posted by curlzcopper

I have a few I'll sell you if interested. They're heavy, that's for sure.

What models are they?

**ScrapYaHerd** · 09-06-2012, 10:01 PM

A lot of laptops have magnesium covers/bottoms, and internals, esp the IBM thinkpads..

**ScrapYaHerd** · 09-06-2012, 10:06 PM

The Li-ion batteries are also worth good money that makes a laptop heavy, it has a high grade board ram, hd, way less worthless metal case than a desktop, just more screws and a screen that is partly worthless.