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My question pertains to the computers that you would buy from a supplier or scrap junker. Ie a guy brings me twenty towers etc... Some local C-list scrappers just dump them for shred price. I am entertaining the idea of paying like 2 or 3 bucks apiece. That would get them some extra coin and net me a nice profit margin.
It's been discussed on here before but if I'm not mistaken people tend to stick with a $5 max per whole computer tower, depending on type of tower maybe even $7 so I would say if they are whole towers and if they will take $2-$3 per tower than great but now you know what a good range is
Seems a safe number for PCs, not knowing what all is in them. More often then not, you should come out ahead. especially if there are any parts you can salvage and sell at more than scrap value. Always better to play it safe and offer the lower price. I've found that it's better to pass on something a little more expensive that you "think" you can make a profit on and go with something you "know" you can make a profit on. Never be afraid to pass on things when you're not sure.
i give 5 bucks for COMPLETE towers and come out fine
Remember guys, he says local scrappers dump them for shread price...so why not be a HERO to all and go in at 3 times shread price!
"I'll pay you TRIPLE what the yard does.."
Won't cost anything to try right? :)
*** My point is, why start at the high end and give away profit?? If he is the only one around the area willing to pay over shread price, then start low!!! Some day VERY soon, there will be 2 then 3 then 4 (and so on ) buyers of PC towers, and then what? if you are already paying top price, to keep business you must reduce profit and pay out more. If you start at $2, then in 6 mths if eveyone is paying $2 or $3, you know that you can saefly go to $4 or even $5 to maintain the business and the profit :)
Just my 55.9 cents worth :)
You also need to look at it from the scrappers point of view.
1. Do i make 2 stops now for a few extra bucks.
2. Am i really making a few extra bucks? Some cases weigh 5 times more than others.
3. 90% of the scrappers near me are illegal immigrants / out of work minorities. Even approaching them to say "HI" they jump in the car and run like your pointing a AK47 in their direction.
If shred is 10 cents a pound the average tower will weight 20 plus pounds so 2x shred price is around 5 bucks. Thats what I pay.
Thank you for the replies everyone. I see we are all in the same price range. The big kicker here is that my local scrapping "service" guys do not pick them up at all. I contacted them and am trying to coax them into grabbing them for me. So, like I said, make some money for them, and some for me. I could pay less im sure, but its easier to work with others if they feel you are on the same team, which we are. Some money is better than no money. One guy told me I missed out on two dump truck loads of computers he scrapped two weeks earlier. Makes my guts ache I tell ya.
The one we buy from our local trash companies, we pay 2 to 4 dollars depending on what's inside. Found one the other day that someone had already removed the HD and memory, half the value was gone. That was a 2 dollar one.