Sell Boards or depopulate and refine yourself?

Your Best bet is either , or either start reading old threads here and watching vids posted by members and forget what you saw on" Byob tube". or option 2 keep learning on byob tube and clear all the animals and people for 1 mile (maybe more) before you start refining.

There is a very good reason refining tech and methods are not discussed here. and why you aren't getting any response.

P.s. There are other better buyers on the buyer seller thread then Board sort. (opinion)

No better advice then the last 2 posts . Be safe in your adventures

Originally Posted by seth1984

Thanks guys, if I may ask who do y'al recommend selling to? I found this one on one of the pages Cash for your Computer Scrap | Cash for Computer Scrap it seems reputable and the prices seem fair my issue is at the point the majority of my stuff is in non working order as far as I know. All I have ben mainly getting is old tube tvs.

I'm not going to suggest any buyer in particular ( conflict of interest ) but if you have mostly low grade boards your going to need to find someone local as shipping will not be cost effective . Check out the buyer and sellers page and see what's close to you

again, study the buyers thread and use what you learn to make your own choice/. it is not fair play to recommend a buyer. just be sure to choose one from the buyers we have here, and you cant go far wrong. If you choose a buyer not in our list it's a crap shoot. you may get $300 or you may get $3. it happens away from this forum all the time.

There is a well known scam co. (not a member of this board) out there with a name very similar to one of our best buyers. so be careful. I have been selling to him for over 4 years with out even a sign of a hic-up,

Sry to be so hard on you but I studied for nearly 2 years on a very Anal refining/ recovery board before I even tried to refine the simplest product after 4 years I wouldn't even consider trying to refine any of the more complex like whole boards.

Pop some pop corn grab a Coke and spend a couple of hours each night for a couple of weeks. You will be amazed at what you will learn. I was amazed at how really dumb I was. mcw

Not sure why but I checked board sorts pricing and they seem kinda low on a lot of items

Knox TN about an 1 15 minutes from ASHEVILLE NC

There is a well known scam co. (not a member of this board) out there with a name very similar to one of our best buyers. so be careful.

Yea, that company has gone by 5 different names depending on what you look to sell them. Even the BBB won't touch them with a good recommendation. Can you say Shaky

Sell your boards and buy precious metals.

Originally Posted by seth1984

Thanks for the advice I am still intimidated by the whole idea of using chemicals at this point but if I could do a hot sand bath to remove capacitors and such off these low grade boards that don't pay much to start with I thought it might be more profitable. I have managed to collect about 12 PC's thus far

Heat gun or maybe a used hair dryer but I can usually get all the stuff of value off by manually pulling/cutting them off. I don't know of too many small components (cap's-resistors-diodes) that have any value worth taking off. Low grade boards (usually brown on one side) are not worth shipping. Double green boards have about 8 different categories, that's where we come in by educating you about the different classes of boards.
I just sold some greenies that paid low price of .25 a lb.