Too many printers, not enough time.

I have been taking printers from people for awhile now. The printers have a low yield of return for the amount of time you have to invest. I tried bulk them up so I could process them at the same time. It ended being hopeless when I started so I kept pushing them off. 50 printers later. I took them in Saturday to a place that buys printers at .05/lb. I needed the space like pronto and didn't really have a choice. My weight was 419.55 pounds @ .05/lb equals $20.98. What joke. I hope to not let that ever happen again.

I usually let printers sit for slow times...You are right though they are much more labor intensive than other electronics. However there usually are some decent components inside.

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Originally Posted by Rollyrogers33

I have been taking printers from people for awhile now. The printers have a low yield of return for the amount of time you have to invest. I tried bulk them up so I could process them at the same time. It ended being hopeless when I started so I kept pushing them off. 50 printers later. I took them in Saturday to a place that buys printers at .05/lb. I needed the space like pronto and didn't really have a choice. My weight was 419.55 pounds @ .05/lb equals $20.98. What joke. I hope to not let that ever happen again.

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At least you have somewhere that will take that quantity at one time. I'm sitting on over 3000 pounds of them, mostly larger network printers as opposed to personal size. Some of my yards don't like seeing large quantities come in at one time. Too much plastic on them. Funny thing is that by the time you get the boards outs, there is considerably less plastic. I just don't want to load up 3000 pounds at one time and then have to take them back home.

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Originally Posted by Rollyrogers33

I have been taking printers from people for awhile now. The printers have a low yield of return for the amount of time you have to invest. I tried bulk them up so I could process them at the same time. It ended being hopeless when I started so I kept pushing them off. 50 printers later. I took them in Saturday to a place that buys printers at .05/lb. I needed the space like pronto and didn't really have a choice. My weight was 419.55 pounds @ .05/lb equals $20.98. What joke. I hope to not let that ever happen again.

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I get shred prices for printers, electric motors and transformers. My yard doesn't mind the printers so I pull the side panel and grab any memory and good boards. 8 cents a pound for shred now.

wow that's a case of beer and a pack of smokes, that's a good trip. my yard always laughs when I take in a truck load at a time but they will as shred now since they know that I take the ink out of them cause some they don't do it for because of it. ink is the biggest money maker of it all so I continue to do so but only tear them down when there good ones with nice boards and memory and of course resale on some

My yard takes them as shred. Never had much luck with the ink or toner cartridges, but I WILL start removing boards!