in the last year the buy price of computer scrap has gone from, I will pay you to haul it off to the skys the limit it seems. the same thing happened in the catolytic converter bis. the internet is a great thing but it is the cause of this phenom.
I know people who were paying over $100 per converter (till they ran out of money) because they read on the net that cats were selling for over $200. What they didn't read were that those $200+ cats were only found on Jaguares, BMWs and Mercadies.
the very same thing is now happening in our business. (theres gold in them thar computers) only gold has this effect on people. gold feaver is real. many (normaly logical people) actually think there are ounces of gold in a $500 computer. we have seen here where people actually took fingers and chips to jewelers and tried to sell them.
the reality is, that volume, and big volume is the only way to make a living scrapping computers .
the trend, like cats, is that the cost of aquisition is rocketing up wards while the wholesale sell price is dropping just as fast.
most, just like cats, will eventualy fall by the wayside when they figgure out how much work is involved and they are actually loseing money. maybe this business will survive on a small to middle scale and maybe it won't.
the only way to survive is study this forum and work and buy smarter then all those out there who don't. my .02
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