Thank you for the responses.

This is a hobby and I am looking at how to minimize the cost of this endeavor. I pay a little for some of the scrap I play with. The boards came from Satellite boxes, controllers, cash registers and computer towers. I was able to sell the devalued boards and the steel to pay for the purchase. I still have the ram, hard drives, cd/floppy drive, power supply, wire, alum, finger cards, and processors.

The sell prices paid: ( I removed, excess alum/steel, plastic, battery and 1 flatpack BGA or n/s bridge per board)



colored board $0.80
Mother Board 1.15
Med Grade Board $0.60
P4 Board $0.80

The idea of asking the original question was to get the numbers to see if it made sense to ship devalued boards in 50 lbs lots vs selling locally. Armygreywolf answered that question, thank you.