I was given around 20sih old cell phone boards already taken out of the cell phone but still have alot of metal on them, and someone stuck them on my front porch and they got wet, there is some damage to them, a little corrosion and looks like the screws that were still attached to some rusted, a some were broken in half, can I still sell the or are they trash? What needs to come off of boards to get the most value out of them? I have been reading for days and havent found an answer. Thank you
When I pull boards I take off all metal frames, LCD screens and wires. 20 boards is not a lot. It may cost more in postage that you will get. Do a lot of other electronics scrapping. When you get a fair sized box then send it in. I just sent a medium priority mail box to one of out forum members (CPU & RAM) and he has a $225 check in the mail now. (I was expecting about 215)
Since 2011 I have bought and recycled 42,357 cellphones. Sometimes I would pull the boards and most of the time ship to a recycler in Florida. I always paid 50¢ each. If the seller balked I walked. I estimate (based on recent gold prices) around $69,000 gold in them. That is about $1.62 in gold per board.
You might try feeBay and let them pay shipping.
Take off what metal you can. Or just sell as is at a lower value grade like telecom high. And don't worry about them being broken in half. you can't break scrap!
Very true, I thought that was the case but figured I would ask.
Thanks, yeah those are just my cell phone boards, I have 3 desktop mb's, like 4 laptop mb's, about 10 cpus, they all have the pins except 2, and about a half puond of ram, so hopefully getting there. And about 10 or so hatrd drive and other various boards as well, all my low grade i'm going to take to my local yard, figured not worth shipping those.