Selling Complete Circuit Boards

Has anyone ever tried selling complete circuit boards by part# on EBay? I’m new to this and struggling with what to do with my ewaste since no one in my area buys it. My yard will take them as shred only, and even though I’ve never tried it, it looks like shipping would eat me alive going to BoardSort. Not the least bit interested in refining myself, although I went through a short spell depopulating higher value items from boards with the intention of selling them once I’d accumulated enough. In reality though I don’t get the huge quantity of boards that most of you get.

Originally Posted by SWMcCaig

Has anyone ever tried selling complete circuit boards by part# on EBay? I’m new to this and struggling with what to do with my ewaste since no one in my area buys it. My yard will take them as shred only, and even though I’ve never tried it, it looks like shipping would eat me alive going to BoardSort. Not the least bit interested in refining myself, although I went through a short spell depopulating higher value items from boards with the intention of selling them once I’d accumulated enough. In reality though I don’t get the huge quantity of boards that most of you get.

Stack it up. Wait until you have enough to fill a pallet. You may think you'll never get that much, that is what I thought, but it stacks up fast. I have sent ~5 pallets off by now at this point I think.

I have not found it worth it to sell motherboards on ebay. CPUs/RAM/Laptops I do resell on ebay now if they are decent enough. Laptop sales has actually become the most profitable part of my scrapping venture.

Thanks for the replies. Sounds like concentrate on high value items at this point in my game. I don’t have the space or volume for pallets, and shipping will kill me unless it’s high value packed boxes if I read everything correctly.

Depending on the motherboards and quantity- I am willing to buy at a higher than scrap rate. But I agree with everyone here- freight is a huge killer.

If you have the means to test them then you can for sure sell them on ebay with no problem. Halfway decent motherboards you can sell for $25+ all day if you test them.

I would be interested in chatting about the laptops you sell. How many would you estimate you go through a month?

Good Afternoon,

I hope you are having a great day and had a good weekend. I saw your response about stacking and accumulating motherboards before shipping them out. It sounded like you have quite a bit of experience with this. Once you have enough to ship, how are you getting a price from you buyer? Is it the quantity of the types of motherboards, or is it the weight of the different grades. IE: low grade, mid grade, server, telecom, backplane, finger, etc? If it is all i-series P4, are you differentiating the boards based on the chipset?

I'm wondering because I am looking to buy i-series boards based specifically on the chipset and am trying to figure out how to advertise that. Thanks for any help in advance!