How much are you getting for your laptop & cell phone Lithium-Ion batteries?
What state is your battery buyer in?
This is a spinroch survey.
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How much are you getting for your laptop & cell phone Lithium-Ion batteries?
What state is your battery buyer in?
This is a spinroch survey.
I am in the hoarding process currently and have not sold , most buyers I think pay about a dollar a pound.
I rarely pay for them , if I see junk phones at flea markets I will offer them .25 a piece or try to take the lot off there hands if they have a bunch just laying there without chargers ,mostly the old outdated flip style types. I see in the buyer and sellers forum that many buyers pay diff rates for whole phones , lith ion batt or just clean boards. What will make or break you is finding the highest buyer within the shortest distance . Weigh them up and plan out the cheapest way for transport wether you drive or ship .
Southwest Ohio (local) 1.25 If I take them to Northeast Ohio 1.50
My guy in atlanta just stopped buying any except laptop batteries...I got $1.50/lb for those...li ion of course
Northeast Ohio is 1.50 for lap and 1.00 for cell for me
Southern, NH
$1/lb
I've been saving Cadmium Batteries also, what is the market like for those?
Those are worth about .35-.40 a # .Quote:
Originally Posted by Scraphunter224
I only get 700-1000 phones a year so I just sell them whole to make it faster but for laptop batteries I save up about 500lbs to ship at a time which I get $1.90lb but shipping and the tape I use brings that down to about 1.30lb as for the rest I do here local sort of about 50miles away but NiCad nicrom and so forth between 30-50clb. best which is the least i get is silver but never reached the point yet to sell enough got almost a large flat rate full so its close. get more silver contacts than batteries lol
Still trying to find a market for li-po batteries.
I get $1.25/lb for Li-ion laptop batteries, and $0.75/lb for Li-ion cell phone batteries.
what about lithium button batteries?
My problem with these is shipping. The Post Office won't take them unless they're installed in the original device.Quote:
Originally Posted by happyisthealero
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Originally Posted by Mick
The kind that you find on motherboards?
No. Laptops. Got a Large Flat Rate box full. Now I'm just stuck with them.
I'm guessing Fedex isn't a viable option?
Tape terminals, bring OPEN box to a fed ex store...pay for shipping, done.
Are there even terminals on a button battery? lol. Wrap each one in electric tape! ;)
Only way I know to ship batteries is taping the suckers.
I bet that'd be a lot of fun...taping up a thousand of those bloody batteries.
Sirscrapalot - Button it! - Someone to someone else who is talking to much.
No. Anything other than the Post Office is over 30 miles away.Quote:
Originally Posted by ryanw
I am still waiting on an answer for the button cells, hope fully one will come along. I think I have at least a buckets worth of them.
I found a northeast buyer that would buy at 1.50/lb. now a week later they are paying .90/lb. I can't understand what happened. Have to call Monday.
my buyer in FL has been paying 75¢ lb for years now when I am ready for another shipment he is down to .05¢ lb.
all about supply and demand...more when they need to fulfill say a 20K pound order from their buyer and less when they have plenty on hand. Also depends on the TYPE of li-ion batt....laptop batteries are considered higher quality than say tool batteries or the regular li ion AA/AAA. I assume there is a difference in how they can recover the material (some being more difficult than others)
OMG! .05 per pound!
You need to look at the SMF Buyers section!
the buyer I use just dropped their pricing a little too.
According to one of the buyers on the forum, the Chinese buyers / recyclers that eventually buy most of these have shifted to buying Li-ion scrap from medical devices. Not sure if it is a higher grade or just that they found a cheaper source. It sounds like the old supply and demand scenario. Supply just increased because the medical community found out about a more profitable way to dispose of these, so our prices went down.
The reason lithium ion laptop batteries pay so well has nothing to do with lithium. Any that are still in demand are refurbished with new cells and re-sold. As for switching to medical devices, I think that was misinformation you were given. Most of them have lower grade than laptop batteries due to the heavier casings.
The laptop batterys have nice Gold contacts. Id expect a thicker plating too.
One morning in bed, I hear a loud 'snap/bang' sound somewhere in the house. I relised Id heard this before too.
Then one day I open a container with some button cells in them and find a couple of little discs and two empty button cells...
I expect they had touched, shorted out, got hot, and exploded.
Can you use a sheet of, dunno what you call it, the plastic you stick to the bottom of kitchen cupboards and stick the batterys to that, all the same side up and then stick another sheet over the other side?
Contact paper. Sounds like it would work.