" ONE-THOUSAND " Old out of date Motorola Pagers

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03-06-2012, 10:32 PM
Big Tex

" ONE-THOUSAND " Old out of date Motorola Pagers

Purchased about 1,000 used motorola pagers today, all assorted. All are powered with AA batteries. Now just wondering WTH im going to do with them all. Is there any value besides scrap value? Im new to e-waste game and any suggestions are appreciated! Thanks in advance.
03-06-2012, 10:35 PM
Jeremiah

Good Q,

Open one and post a pic of the board
03-06-2012, 10:36 PM
Big Tex

Im having problems again posting pics, but im working on it.
03-06-2012, 10:45 PM
IdahoScrapper

Pull up the model number(s) on Google and ebay to see if there is a market for them as is.

Can't imagine anyone still using pagers but who knows.
03-06-2012, 10:48 PM
Big Tex

Thanks , Iv'e been searching ebay for last 2 hrs. Can't find any like i have, yet!
03-07-2012, 03:50 AM
Gnraxlrose88

Idaho, actually some people do use pagers. Guy I got to school with is a volunteer fire fighter and he has one. Went off in the shop one time when I was working with him
03-07-2012, 04:47 AM
Enoch43

I have processed a few hundred of these.

Some of them have some really sweet gold contacts and antennas inside, and all of them have boards. Some of the boards have lots of gold contacts.

If you scrap them, trick is to just get through them fast. The isn't much in one pager, so just get it out and recycle the case. I was doing about 100 in 2 hours.

I sold the boards on eBay for gold recovery and ended up always doing better than $5/lb on them. The gold plated springs and antennas and stuff, I still have. They look like ideal material to feed a reverse-plating cell.....
03-07-2012, 06:29 AM
Big Tex

Thanks Enoch43 for the helpful info
03-07-2012, 04:45 PM
Scrap man

Just curious, how much did you pay?
03-07-2012, 06:50 PM
Mechanic688

Quote:

Can't imagine anyone still using pagers but who knows.

Volunteer firemen, some foremen, and the doctors and specialty nurses at our VA hospital all use them. Even the maintenance men at the VA have them. You know, clean-up isle 5. lol
03-07-2012, 07:07 PM
Big Tex

I have been searching my models for the last day now and can not find any info.
03-07-2012, 07:34 PM
Bear

what about the companies web site Big Tex? have you searched for the model numbers on it, or thought about emailing them for info on how old they are, etc?
03-07-2012, 11:23 PM
Big Tex

Bear, thanks for the great idea about emailing for info. I have also been searching to see if these are a wanted item in Third-World countries.