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How's it going this is dman from phoenix. I think I'm in the right area and following the right protocol if not I apologize in advance I sold a bunch of stuff to a local scrapyard and I'm feeling like they got over on me because of my lack of experience I'm new to this and after this I might be done here is a list of what I sold them can anyone tell me if it was a fair deal thank you. Here's the list. Every thing listed is from sun Microsystems servers towers,workstations all from the 1990s 100 pounds high grade mother boards 35 hard drives 55 sticks memory, 75 gold ram the memory all gold 40 pounds aluminum heat sinks 30 pounds copper wire 10 DVD CD ROM and here's the kicker I had about 60 CPUs gold pins and caps on 15 gold pins and caps on both sides I would appreciate any advice and help I got the stuff for free and still have a ton literally to break down thank you. Dman

Welcome to the board, depends on what you mean getting one over on you. Large yards or the ones that are part of big corps (like SIMS) usually have fixed prices and try to give you the right price. They WANT you to come back and bring them more. Smaller indy yards might be a problem, especially if they think you are a one timer. Believe me, I 'gave' away so much good stuff over the years simply by not knowing better. Example: Our local e-waste place pays amount X for everything. If I am 'lazy' and don't break stuff down for better value or sell some of the stuff on eBay it is not THEIR fault. Their entire business model is based on people bringing them stuff they can turn a profit on. I am only into ewaste for a few weeks now and the forum is great but also overwhelming. I learn more EVERY day by simply doing it and researching as I go. E.g. last week I had a few small cooling fans from a desktop tower. Was wondering if there is value above scrap. Went on here, found the answer which is NO, cut the wires for insulated copper ($0.60/lbs) and toss the motors in with e-motors ($0.15/lbs). Took a few minutes, but now I know and next time it will take mere seconds to take care of it. Just keep on researching and learning. I posted yesterday about the pain in the neck it is to break down laptops and if it is really worth it. Well, I got my answers and you bet your behind it is worth it. My buddy broke one down last night and got some seriously good parts out of it. 2 x 2GB Ram (can sell on ebay as bundle for $16.97), HDD $30-50 wiped and tested on eBay. CPU goes into the Pentium CPU box. MoBo prob worth about $3.50. the laptops was exposed to water, so he did not even test it. Should have anyway. Might actually been worth more on ebay whole even for parts. But nonetheless, he made easily $50 in less than half hour. Happy hunting!

Welcome to SMF from the Dakota's. I cannot help you but you might look at the buyers section and visit with one of those experts. In addition you can do searches in the right hand corner of the forum for additional information. There is a lot of information in the old threads. Good luck.

You didn't tell us what you got from the yard, so I'm not really sure what you are asking. One yard near me doesn't buy anything computer related. The other pays $1.75 per tower computer. Needless to say, I would not use that route for scrapping any electronics.

This is another perfect example of how researching the archives is beneficial.
A scrap yard is not going to give you a decent price, most of time. Around me all yard pay shred price no matter what it is, speaking of ewaste that is. Good buyers on here, you should check them out.

I appreciate that and sorry I got 175 for that stuff . lesson learned. I just came across a couple crates milk crates one is full of new PCI cards and the other is full of gold . literally gold CPUs sun ultra SPARC IIi when I go through them will take pics I also came across an old apple looks like a tower its dated 1989 not sure if worth anything thanks