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Anybody find a buyer for the LCD screen glass? I have a bunch pulled with the runner board pulled.
I have a good heap of them piling up, and they'll get the trash soon if I don't find anyone.
They haven't been separated from the plastic or the cage around them. If there is a buyer, would I have to remove the light bulbs?
There are no buyers as far as I have found, but that is going to change in the future. They contain a rare earth metal that is basically already not worth the price of mining out of the ground. It may be a few years down the road yet, but I think the screens are going to have a significant value in the future.
I am not an expert on rare earth metals and this is just my speculation. All it will take is the right company to figure out how to reclaim the material.
so you want to buy mine? heheheQuote:
Originally Posted by AuburnEwaste
i do agree that if you can save them there may be a market later on or i am hoping at least. there is a buyer close to be on here that I contacted today that seemed to good to be true as they listed by mistake they bought them for $2.50 each but it was good to at least call to make sure as they charge $10each to take them so thats a huge difference lol :)
An interesting read on this subject: http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pu...2012-indiu.pdf
Look half way down on the first page. It does not give any insight into what the market is, but that Indium is in fact being recovered from scrap LCD panels.
http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/...702/165702.pdf
Also an interesting read.
but my calculations said there is anywhere from $5-9 in each screen? (basing off of a .1lb screen, I'm probably heavy on that?)
They are very lightweight, but even if they net 50 cents per screen it is worth looking into.
My local buyer pays $.15 a pound for the glass, wish it would go up.
Might be a good strategy to buy LCD screens now on the cheap and hold them until there's a healthy market for them. They're easy to store and easy to ship....HMMM! Could be an investment avenue for a number of us.Quote:
Originally Posted by brandon
Sounds like a tax haven idea. Set up a firm to get them. Store them. Go broke & write it off.Quote:
Originally Posted by DWJ
Then in 20 yrs dig them up again & it'll pay for the grandkids education...
I was buying laptop glass from repair shops for $0.05 a pound before I ever had a buyer, I read on here several months ago about the rare earth metals in them and that the supplies in China were running out. I figure if the supplies do run out the prices should go up.
The issue is not running out, it is the cost of mining. We will pretty much never run out of Indium, but it will get more expensive to mine. The cost to mine it is so high that it is only captured as a product of mining other metals. It is a matter of waiting for the technology to recover it from the screens to be adopted.
Could be they know something. If there is a coming market, what a great way to accumulate product.Quote:
Originally Posted by travistemple202020
yes, it was too good to be true, It was a typo on the website, We don't pay for them, sorry about that, and Thanks for calling, It will be recitifed today. somehow it got slipped into the coding, by mistake, but thanks again for information about that,
but there are companies that will buy lcd with no blemish, or cracked for 4 bucks a piece if You wished to know about it, let me know but they have to be in a lcd bezel basically a lcd screen ready to be plugged in and go, no cords may be cut if its soldered in, if its screw in no biggie, again thanks Ames Iowas for contacting Me.
yeah, I pulled the boards off the back. I'm somewhere in the 50-60 screen range right now.
If anyone is interested, I'll see if they fit in a flat rate box and charge you that plus $10? for as many as I can fit in there :D