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    It's only worth it if you can resell the desktops as desktops. If you part them out and resell the parts, you might make a couple bucks, but it wouldn't be worth the time. If you couldn't do that and had to scrap them out, you'd be in a tough spot to come out ahead.

    My rule on thumb for desktops is that I love to scrap them, but I won't pay for them. Places that try to sell them are looking for a quick buck, and you can't blame them. But, they're selling what is basically a worthless commodity. When they come to the realization that they won't get anything, then I'll come and pick them up. Until then, I won't play their games. They'll either sell none, or they'll end up selling some to people that don't know they bought an incomplete, non-working system, and those people are likely to come to me to have the machine made whole anyways. Either way, my best move financially is to just sit it out and do nothing really

    More than Scrap Value Shipment Tips: http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/scrap...tml#post242349

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