Might have just hit a solid score

Been slow but steady for me lately with calls from people looking to sell various electronic scrap. A few nice purchases but nothing to out of the ordinary. Got an email yesterday evening from a guy who said he was doing some cleaning in the basement and had a couple hundred pounds of stuff. Wasn't to sure what to expect but there was potential so I decided to skip sleeping in today and make the 45 min drive to meet him.

Turns out the guy has his own IT business and works with a number of large companies. Turned out to be my best single purchase so far, lot's of goodies I can't wait to tear in to. Just before I started packing up my truck he asked me if I had any interest in satellite phones, I said sure.

This is the exact same phone....

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Qualcomm-Glob...item3cc2449cef

I have 15 of them :)
Some still in the box, have plugged a few in and so far they seem to be fully functional.

That's great. Do you have any pictures of your score?

......:).....

Way to go TB.

My truck before unloading it into my storage locker

http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/.../Photo0048.jpg

The phones...

http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/.../Photo0049.jpg

Have ac adapters for all of them not in the pic

This was the total haul.....

23.5 lb finger cards mixed with hard drive boards
33 lbs Extruded Alu heatsinks
14 lbs copper heat sinks
21 lbs of motors
58 lbs of power supplies with the wire
10 lbs of motherboards
44 lbs of hard drives cases (cast alu and SS)
34 lbs of ribbon cable with gold connector ends still attached
67 lbs of cd dvd and floppy drives
0.4 lbs P4 Metal back CPUs
0.2 lbs AMD ceramic
0.3 lbs Black fibre
0.4 lbs green and brown fibre
3.5 lbs RAM
1.3 lbs Slot processors
1 IBM server
7 Complete towers
9 complete Laptops
2 40" LCD tvs
15 Satellite phones

Good for you tberry...wish we all good get loads like that. Don't spend all your money in one place ! lol

Sweet haul, congrats on this one. Mike.

how do you buy stuff like that, by the pound, by the load, or by the piece ?

Congrats on the find. How much did you shell out on this haul.

Nice load, maybe I need to move to Canada, NOT too cold for me.

Thanks guys, ended up getting another call and grabbing another 35lbs of motherboards and a couple pounds of RAM this afternoon.

I buy most things by weight. Towers and Laptops I pay per unit.

After gas I'm in a little over $300 on this lot. If that ebay link I posted is an accurate indicator moving 3 of the phones should put me at about break even :) Even at far less I should do well on this one.