Laptop Lot UPDATE

Over the past week and a half iv been working here and there at gettin these laptops processed. Iv delt with all the "complete" ones and a few of the half ripped apart laptops. About half of the lot has been processed.

Every single one had been opened buy the guy I bought em off. Some missing RAM, video cards, almost all missing the HD. The guy was a liar. Said a whole pile where complete unopened.. None the less, im happy. I should make out ok on this lot. Have a guy that will buy the HDs per piece as he usues them as "memory sticks" lol

One of the pics is 4 or 5 of the many badass OMG ITS GOLD boards iv found. Also, if anyone has any idea what to do with the busted LCD screens please chime in!

Heres a link to the pics. I post with the phone app and it wont let me up load more than one pic.

http://s1015.photobucket.com/user/jo...bile%20Uploads

Edit: had to post the link as a video cause every time I try and copy/paste the link into the text field it crashes the app... let me know if anyone has any issues!

Your album on that website is "private".

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Originally Posted by ryanw

Your album on that website is "private".

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Fixed!

I think I'm going to try to sell the plastic sheets as arts/crafts, unless I can find a buyer for the LCD glass itself, or complete screens removed from the plastic... I took the boards :D

I'm still trying to avoid eBay...

That long board in one of my pics is from a shattered lcd screen. Nice bit of gold on em! If I can find a buyer for just the screens I probably have a few dozen I can get rid of.

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Originally Posted by jord0690

That long board in one of my pics is from a shattered lcd screen. Nice bit of gold on em! If I can find a buyer for just the screens I probably have a few dozen I can get rid of.

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Please let me know if you find any. I have about 60 of them right now...

lcd screens contain trace mercury please be carefull!

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Originally Posted by NHscrapman

lcd screens contain trace mercury please be carefull!

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Other than the boards, I dont touch em!!

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lcd screens contain trace mercury please be carefull!

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I didn't know this.

How dyou guys find buyers of RAM modules and those processors?

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Originally Posted by cebuscrapbuyer

I didn't know this.

How dyou guys find buyers of RAM modules and those processors?

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I personally don't think it's worth it to take apart laptops. If you break one down I'm confident you will find the same. You can easily pull the hard drive, memory, and processor (battery if you want) then get .85 for the rest (incomplete laptop). If it has resale value, I fix it or sell it. If not, pull the memory and move on. Unless you are going to use ebay for the parts, I don't see any reason to take them apart, just no money in it.

Iv got 3/4 of it done and I have 35lbs of motherboards, a few pounds of alum frame pieces, a few pounds of clean copper from the heat sinks (only cleaned half a dozen so far) so I still have a few dozen to clean. And a bunch of saweeet OMG gold boards iv found. Not to mention the ram and cpus.

I enjoy the time to myself while cleaning them so I do it.

I like laptops but I pay my employee to tear them down now but still do a few here and there and yes there are screen buyers here and ebay for everything lol screws do well so if your doing them in the future save the same model ones a complete set can go as high as $50 but most about $6-8

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I like laptops but I pay my employee to tear them down now but still do a few here and there and yes there are screen buyers here and ebay for everything lol screws do well so if your doing them in the future save the same model ones a complete set can go as high as $50 but most about $6-8

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Do you know about the touch pad board?

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Originally Posted by MattInTheHat

Do you know about the touch pad board?

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Yessir! Those are many of the OMG gold boards im speaking of.

Those omg boards are mid grade.

there are 2 types of the touch pads. Some have a copper coloring which are the mid grade.

Others are the gold trimmed which i never would accept mid grade for. The very least i would take would be telecom

Does anyone know roughly what a laptop motherboard weighs?

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Originally Posted by Goatrutar

Does anyone know roughly what a laptop motherboard weighs?

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depends on the laptop. I tore down 50 Lenovo's and they ended up being about 29# total. You do the math.

Those lenovos are chinese arent they? Must be cheap and light. Iv done maybe 50 laptops so far and im up to almost 40#. Depends on the make I guess.

As for those OMG boards, id never accept mid grade for them either. Id suggest trying another buyer of all your getting is mid grade.... like someone else said, they wouldnt accept less than telecom grade. As for some being copper, I can check and tell which ones are copper and which are gold.

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Those lenovos are chinese arent they? Must be cheap and light. Iv done maybe 50 laptops so far and im up to almost 40#. Depends on the make I guess.

As for those OMG boards, id never accept mid grade for them either. Id suggest trying another buyer of all your getting is mid grade.... like someone else said, they wouldnt accept less than telecom grade. As for some being copper, I can check and tell which ones are copper and which are gold.

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It wasn't a very large board. I fit all of them into one standard paper ream box (10 ream box)

Ahh well there you go. Im selling mine locally for $2#. It was at 2.50# but I guess since gold is down prices are too. He says if I have a larger volume he can do a bit better.

Maybe you guys should post a breakdown of a laptop or two. Without reselling the parts, I don't see how there is any money in taking them apart.

IF the board weighs .75# at server board prices that would only be $2.70 vs a 5 pound laptop at .85# is 4.25 (with you taking the 2 mins it takes to pull the ram and hard drive).

This isn't really a question of "what is your time worth", I'm not even sure if you are actually making more by breaking them down.
There are some things that you will not make more breaking down, this certainly may be one of them.

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Originally Posted by Phantoms001

Maybe you guys should post a breakdown of a laptop or two. Without reselling the parts, I don't see how there is any money in taking them apart.

IF the board weighs .75# at server board prices that would only be $2.70 vs a 5 pound laptop at .85# is 4.25 (with you taking the 2 mins it takes to pull the ram and hard drive).

This isn't really a question of "what is your time worth", I'm not even sure if you are actually making more by breaking them down.
There are some things that you will not make more breaking down, this certainly may be one of them.

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Its real simple for me. Its not profitable for me to sell as incomplete because shipping would kill all profits. Nobody here in my area pays for laptops at all. Thats the reason I strip them.

Its funny about laptops...people can make so much money on them.but forget how tp.

Pull all electronics. Save all screws and sell as set on ebay for like $5. Scrap battery. Srll sodimm memory on ebay or scrap. Sell keyboard chassis. Sell rrmovable cd/dvd caddie if works for a premium. Sell hard drive. Sell power supply if you have it. Sell screen if qorks for a replacement screen. Add all that up and you make more money than desktops. Takes a bit longer to pull apart...but still.

Keep all that in mind.

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Originally Posted by webuyselltradestuff

Its funny about laptops...people can make so much money on them.but forget how tp.

Pull all electronics. Save all screws and sell as set on ebay for like $5. Scrap battery. Srll sodimm memory on ebay or scrap. Sell keyboard chassis. Sell rrmovable cd/dvd caddie if works for a premium. Sell hard drive. Sell power supply if you have it. Sell screen if qorks for a replacement screen. Add all that up and you make more money than desktops. Takes a bit longer to pull apart...but still.

Keep all that in mind.

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Had no idea screw sets sold like that! And my only issue is I cannot test my stuff. I dont have the equipment yet. None of my laptops I got had power cords so I had no way to test anything. Id love to be able to sell as working parts! But I dont know if any of them work...

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Originally Posted by jord0690

Had no idea screw sets sold like that! And my only issue is I cannot test my stuff. I dont have the equipment yet. None of my laptops I got had power cords so I had no way to test anything. Id love to be able to sell as working parts! But I dont know if any of them work...

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If you continue to get laptops then you might want to consider one of those universal power supplies with the changeable ends to fit different laptops.

http://cdn3.volusion.com/mgttd.cropm...UNV90WAC-2.jpg

Universal AC Adapter Laptop Power - 90 Watts With 8 Round Style Tips - Fits 90% Of Laptops (15 to 24 Volts, 90 watts)

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Originally Posted by jord0690

Had no idea screw sets sold like that! And my only issue is I cannot test my stuff. I dont have the equipment yet. None of my laptops I got had power cords so I had no way to test anything. Id love to be able to sell as working parts! But I dont know if any of them work...

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Yes they sell.like that. You also can sell items as "for parts untested"...I do it all the time on stuff I have no vables for. Still get better than scrap value 99% of the time. Sell keyboard and screen chassis that way...youll get $5-10 even for non working as some of the stuff willl work or can be used like the keys for I stance. Always check the model # on ebay to see what is for sale now and what has sold to expand what you can sell.

I do this with business and laser printers especially...trays, doors, lcd display all get listed.

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Had no idea screw sets sold like that! And my only issue is I cannot test my stuff. I dont have the equipment yet. None of my laptops I got had power cords so I had no way to test anything. Id love to be able to sell as working parts! But I dont know if any of them work...

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Yes they sell.like that. You also can sell items as "for parts untested"...I do it all the time on stuff I have no vables for. Still get better than scrap value 99% of the time. Sell keyboard and screen chassis that way...youll get $5-10 even for non working as some of the stuff willl work or can be used like the keys for I stance. Always check the model # on ebay to see what is for sale now and what has sold to expand what you can sell.

I do this with business and laser printers especially...trays, doors, lcd display all get listed.

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Yeah iv got another thread asking about sellin parts on ebay, im gonna try listing a few. Iv got all the CD drives and keyboards that im gonna try listing.

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Originally Posted by jord0690

Had no idea screw sets sold like that! And my only issue is I cannot test my stuff. I dont have the equipment yet. None of my laptops I got had power cords so I had no way to test anything. Id love to be able to sell as working parts! But I dont know if any of them work...

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Yeah iv got another thread asking about sellin parts on ebay, im gonna try listing a few. Iv got all the CD drives and keyboards that im gonna try listing.

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Well if you need help or questions..lmk I have sold for years online. I have only been scrapping about a yeatlr but I have many years of computer experience so my learning curve was pretty shallow...I mainly do ewaste and electronic recycling.

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Its real simple for me. Its not profitable for me to sell as incomplete because shipping would kill all profits. Nobody here in my area pays for laptops at all. Thats the reason I strip them.

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Actually I am about to send a pallet full of laptops to a buyer in your area. I'm getting $0.90/lb for nearly complete units (no HD). However they need pallet or gaylord quantities as a minimum. Once you start getting larger volumes, there is a very good buyer right in your area.

I agree with most others, not worth my time to break them down. I usually pull units that are good or worth fixing, and turn in the rest as-is. Out of this pallet load I pulled out about 20 or so good/repairable units, probably worth $30-60 each, the rest are turned in as-is.

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Originally Posted by jord0690

Its real simple for me. Its not profitable for me to sell as incomplete because shipping would kill all profits. Nobody here in my area pays for laptops at all. Thats the reason I strip them.

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Actually I am about to send a pallet full of laptops to a buyer in your area. I'm getting $0.90/lb for nearly complete units (no HD). However they need pallet or gaylord quantities as a minimum. Once you start getting larger volumes, there is a very good buyer right in your area.

I agree with most others, not worth my time to break them down. I usually pull units that are good or worth fixing, and turn in the rest as-is. Out of this pallet load I pulled out about 20 or so good/repairable units, probably worth $30-60 each, the rest are turned in as-is.

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EDI right? I emailed them asking what they require for a minimum load. Never got a reply...

I dont have that much volume anyway and probably never will lol

Hey guys, I hope it's OK for me to ask this here. (If not, someone just let me know please.) Do any of your laptop loads ever contain Lenovos and/or Fujitsus from the last few years? If so, please PM me. Thanks.