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    You did the math looks like a profit.Maybe make more on how you ship it, so get to it shipped. Ewasted normally will not do house calls! If you are worried that the price will drop it may, but it may go up as well!! What else are you going to do with it? Yep shipping sucks....


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    Thanks everyone for all of the great info and advice, I did list the 8088 motherboard, power supply, hard drive ,keyboard and three other old "clicky" keyboards on ebay.
    I didn't think it would all sell but everything went, I was pleasantly surprised when the old keyboard from the 8088 sold for $104.00. Way more then scrap value for sure!
    According to ebay I made $289.99 but one auction for $20 has not paid so that brings it down to $269.99
    The listings were free but ebay charged me 10% of the total, $29.00
    Paypal's cut was $10.44 and shipping cost me $68.22 so once papal releases all my money to me I will have 162.33
    The work shop is still packed with electronic scrap and I could probably make a lot more off of ebay but it takes quite a bit of time to test, take pictures, list on ebay, pack, and ship everything. At that rate it would take a month of Sundays to get the shop cleaned out so I'll ebay a few items but most everything else is going to scrap.
    I found a local place that will take the plastic, monitors, and tvs for small fee. Once they are gone and I take everything I can to the local scrap yard I will have room to store all of the computer boards and more valuable escrap so I can collect more to ship out to a buyer next spring.
    Thanks for the advice I got in this forum I have $162.00 more then I would have and thats just awesome! Thank you!

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