Missed out

I contacted a computer repair person on craigslist to see if I can score some of his un usable stuff.... he had just let go for free 300 towers :( said another guy in another state offered 5 to 10 bucks a tower but he wasn't willing to wait for him to show up in his state.. I offered 2 to 3 dollars a tower, like I read another post don't pay more than 5 per. he was bummed but wants further communication with me for maby some purchases.. I told him that's for a complete towers he said they were mostly Pentium 3 and 4 boxes...... Now I read from a buyer boardsort looks decent on prices even buys odds an ends like gold pined computer cable ends and ribbon cables CELL PHONES WITH NO BATTERIES FOR 5 BUCKS A POUND? AND WITH BATTERY 3 BUCKS A POUND? DOES THAT SOUND RIGHT? wonder if those cheap go phones and govt phones fit in that category lol. anyhow this is like the 3rd big load I just missed, another guy got rid of a 4x8 inclosed trailer full of towers an monitors for free.. boo hoo.. need to step up the game and catch em before there all gone.

Sometimes its a crap shoot you never know when luck will fall in your favor. Keep networking yourself. Anyway it's reassuring to know that this happens to us all. But you did make a new contact, and that's what helps business to grow. Thanks for your post. Keep scrap n!

Don't feel bad, our first "big deal" was we were supposed to haul away all the tv;s/monitors in a warehouse for a nonprofit.
This was an old leaky warehouse and the stuff was all donated stuff that had not sold.
For doing this we were supposed to get all the computers and equip. that was stored in the "other" room. Well, we rented a big Ryder truck and hauled away over 300 tv/monitors and when it came time for the computer stuff, the room was empty, except for a few printers. One of their employees had been sneaking them out over time.

We did get some profit from the tv's but missed out on the big score. I think they just used us to help clean up their mess and there wasn't really any computers to begin with.

Check out the buyers section here you will find better prices than boardsort has for almost all items

One of the computer repair shops that I work with, about 2 years ago got rid of a 40ft trailer load filled top to bottom. They had been saving them since they had been in business. Finally needed the space that they were taking up. The county has a recycling program so the county sent a truck and inmate labor to load everything up. I only moved here just under a year ago. They said that most of them were 386 and 486 machines, I told them that they made somebody really happy.

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One of the computer repair shops that I work with, about 2 years ago got rid of a 40ft trailer load filled top to bottom. They had been saving them since they had been in business. Finally needed the space that they were taking up. The county has a recycling program so the county sent a truck and inmate labor to load everything up. I only moved here just under a year ago. They said that most of them were 386 and 486 machines, I told them that they made somebody really happy.

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oh good lord that would have ben a sugar rush on them chips, wow...

I did wind up with a couple pounds of ceramic processors that they did hold on to and about 30lbs of ram. I finally had to tell them to stop talking about it because it was making me sick. lol

30 lbs of ram.. how sweet is that... awsome

Yeah, I was like a kid in a candy store.