Not trying to brag, but I just picked up 36 batteries for a 30 pack of keystone light. Most of them are tractor batteries. Nice and heavy and my yard is paying $.30/pound for them. How much is everyone else getting for batteries?
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Not trying to brag, but I just picked up 36 batteries for a 30 pack of keystone light. Most of them are tractor batteries. Nice and heavy and my yard is paying $.30/pound for them. How much is everyone else getting for batteries?
About the same...Nice score!
just turned in some UPS batteries for that price, plus i'm getting $8 for a car battery. Another yard in town is only paying $5...go figure!
$378.00 for $15.99 I would do that every day!
what is a UPS battery?Quote:
Originally Posted by shendog
uninterrupted power supply...... things are heavy as sin
Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
Thomas Carlyle
most UPS batteries I've seen were just like garden tractor size batteries
Turned in 687 lbs mainly ups batteries and a couple car batteries@ 26c a lb two weeks ago.
http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/...7/IMAG0482.jpg
I just meant the whole thing...... not just the batteries....yeah they are pretty small. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Bear
Clarity affords focus.
Thomas Leonard
Wile lead is traded for .97 per # ( LME ) yards pay .40 for lead - So as is bat's pay well at .30
Congrats on your load, I turned in ... Batteries -
Laptop Batteries- 162.00 LB Weight 2.0000 324.00
Lead Acid batteries 604.00 LB Weight 0.3200 193.28
Last load of batts fetched .33/#
Nice score! Great price!
I bought 102 motorcycles batterys today :) . Cant give out my price sorry guys but its based on 30-40k lbs a month
i brought in 5 pallets worth of auto batteries and a forklift battery i got $.43 cents a lbs but had 9056 lbs worth i walked away happy
I have a LOT of laptop batteries. More than a few hundred pounds. I have not talked to my yard about them yet. I did take apart a server battery backup and scored really good on that. It filled a small closet. It was around 500 lbs of batteries.
$12.00/EA for auto battery, $3-5/EA for the smaller ones.
Msearl from what i been told laptop batteries arent worth anything
Have a Buyer in Denver offering ~.60 pound and another thinking of buying in the future.Quote:
Originally Posted by nebrs13
The yards in boston want to pay .20
I had a buyer once that was 10 or 12 per battery, cant find his card/number though
just trying to get a handle on batteries - correct me if I'm wrong.
NiCad - no value (pay to get rid of *except call to recycle places)
Li-ion - sell to a "buyer" not a yard
Lead acid - sell to most yards Do most yards accept the small lead acid batteries (6v) from kid ride on toys or just "full size"?
Those small ones are almost like lawn mower batteries, or UPS batteries. I know my yard takes them any size,(this is a place where size doesn't matter) lolQuote:
Originally Posted by KrazyK
Most places take. 8/16V. POWER TOOL no value
All batteries in the picture have value
Ended up getting $486.87 for them! Way more weight than I thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by asandahl
I sold my l ion batteries to a buyer here at #1.80 and cell batteries at #1.25. $80.00 dollars. For something I get free and toss in a box.
I know that they have some value. When things slow down a bit I will look into it closer. As for now they don't take up much space and are pretty easy to set aside. I have the good fortune of having ample warehouse space.Quote:
Originally Posted by nebrs13
i have an opportunity to get some batteries from surge protectors. the guy said they were apc batteries. i dont know anything about them but i googled apc batteries and lead acid came up. anybody know about these types? if i go and they dont have "lead acid" on the label is there a way i would know from glancing at them if they are something i want?
I have always turned in APC batteries in with car batteries.
thanks i will look into it.
I scrapped over 1000 lbs of backup systems yesterday......They yeilded around 500lbs of batteries and 200 lbs of transformers (rough estimates)
Yep their just a smaller sealed lead acid type almost like a smooth top motorcycle size.
A few weeks back I took in a whole pallet of batteries from battery back-ups myself. At the same time I took in a whole pallet of ballast (non-PCB). I had them both on separate pallets. When I got to the yard I found out that both had to be stacked with cardboard between the layers for them to accept them. So i had to unload both pallets onto different pallets and insert the cardboard in between each layer. It was a lot of hard work doing this. I will not make that mistake again! Both pallets were 6 layers high. My back still feels it.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeinreco
I am really new to scrapping. There are local battery shops around here that are currently paying $13 per auto battery. No really sure atm how the math works out, but it seems like that has to be better than less than a buck a #. Guess I really need to get a scale.
Car batteries average 35.4 pounds. $13 works out to approx .36/lbQuote:
Originally Posted by skandranon
Around here I have 3 buyers at $5, $8 and $12 per auto battery. Cant figure out why such a difference for the same item. Of course the $5 guy is closest and the $12 guy is the farthest away!Quote:
Originally Posted by skandranon
My guess would be that the "5" and "8" guys sell to the "12" guy and the "8" guy is just trying for them harder than the "5" guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by shendog
check out the ewaste buyers on this site, a few of them buy laptop batteriesQuote:
Originally Posted by msearl3244