the fun of scrapping with me and my pics

we all love pics and I have yet to start my own thread of my scrapping adventures so I figured I would have some fun sharing all in one place. even the misadventures can be enlightening.
so maybe first a reintroduction:
my name is Travis and I have been scrapping since I was a kid and my love of toys and such things needed money. as I grew so did the ways I scrapped, which ewaste I started about 5yrs ago but really only in the last few and because of this forum have I been able to grow and make the money I do now.
it has become an obsession now because of all the stuff out there I see $$$$$ everywhere and I am always clamering to try and grab it all lol. which is good its fun and hard work and passes lots of time and gives me the time and money to do so much.
anyway not to ramble on in one post a lot of me and what I do will be apart of this thread, so I hope you enjoy and happy scrapping.

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some of my best vintage stuff I get for free

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the biggest hard drives I have even came across some I sold but like this one I tore down and it was awesome it was over 100lbs

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fun with phones this was 1 of two loads in 2013 that took a bit to tear down wishing all while I was doing it that I had space to sell plastic fyi resale was so low on these shipping would eat it all up

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I don't have the biggest of truck its a 94 chevy 1500 and I love buying pallets of computers but hate the pallets as I have no close buyer and cant burn them lol so this is what my truck looks like with a pallet broke down to load into the back

Love your pics ! How did you get this much laptops :(

those are a small pile I get at least 300week most I have to pile up for later which gets daunting after awhile not as much as crts though lol I have what I call a laptop wall which is a long running joke with friends but will post a pic of the current wall which is smaller now that I have broken down a lot and with the new screen buyer I am going to test a load to see what I can make but as for were I get a lot from auctions but most laptops I get are regulars and other people I pick up from or dropped off clist is amazing for this

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my first 486 like my first pro was awesome to find but what made it better was this one I sold with a board not knowing how to test them for $65 and even though I have got a lot since then every time I get one I still feel like a kid getting a funnel cake at the carnival

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I took this after a bag of cords were dropped off when I use to cut off the ends to save the prongs but now I save them in almost Gaylord sized boxes for a buyer I have for these but it takes a lot before I sell them

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my laziest employee just sleeps most of the day I named her yes her eddy after the dog on Frasier but not spelled the same because they look so much alike

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this is my truck this year I decorated for xmas

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Looks like a load of Lucent or Avaya phones.

a few it was a mix wish it was worth more but even one of our great buyers on here did not want them for resale and was funny cause we joked about how much phone wire we sit on

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this is my wall of laptops its usually on the floor of the other wall that I have stuff set to keep them up when I pile them high right now theres only about 300 as I have got a lot tore down

WoW!!

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I love making things from scrap

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todays load before lunch 44desktops 15 laptops about had slotos so a bit extra that way

Kinda speechless at these pics lol. Great scores man! I'd pay my computer builder/repair buddy to get some going again cheap and resell the ones that are fixable. Amazing how people get rid of computers over the smallest things

Do you have to buy all those computers or do you get some given to you or a combo??

P.S. I hope you have a little heat in the garage. Might be chillier now that the Jan. thaw around here has come to an end...

most are free but I do buy a lot of auctions so bulk is bigger at one time

I love college towns. I had a guy call me up yesterday asking how many printers and rom drives I get in as he was looking for motors and parts to build a 3d printer as he is writing a paper on using reclaimed materials and showing how to get them cheap and plans to build your own things. this way the specialized parts are what he is spending the money on. im glad I dint load up the truck with printers as he only need so much lol but sold him 11 printers and 50 dvd/cd rom drives for $15 and yes I already took the boards so it was a fair price for both of us.
im glad he did before I tore them down more cause I smash out the motors and heads to make it fast lol

What site / types of business do you use to find pallets of coms? I have searched all over the local auction sites but the piles of ewaste still elude my searches =/

govedeals I love a lot but sites and businesses everywhere as well as college surplus and d.o.t. surplus and so forth

Totally awesome man, that kind of inventory is a dream for me to sort. I think I love scrapping so much because I am all OCD and I get to sort out every little type of metal. Wires, heatsinks, transformers/motors, brass, stainless you name it.

got to give a shout out to the memory group llc. just completed my first shipment with them a small one of 54 laptops this past week and they are awesome they paid paid for shipping and have great screen prices and email you fast and update you all the time and went above and beyond when paypal was being a pita they overnighted me cash. look forward to this weeks shipment of 125 and they also will arrange freight shipping on a pallet if you wish for more than 200laptops at a time.
I will be doing that next but want to get these all out first. the cold has been such a pain though as tape wont stick to a box outside trying to pack these up for ups and so I have had to lug everything inside and back out again

Could you tell how much you get +/- per laptop? :)

that's a huge range I would check the buyers section and ebay to give you a idea cause its all about age condition and so forth

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thank you :) I get about 17$ a piece, in working and non-working condition :)

got a fun email yesterday morning from clist and picked up 10 tape drives in good shape which will be a fast sell on ebay @$50 so they don't have to sit long

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Do you have an ebay store or do you do auctions? Any variations that you'll sell them all for that price or you just know from experience that if you list them "buy it now" or however you do it, you get it???

Do you test the tape drives, or can you sell them as untested?

Thanks!

I sell as untested cause I want a fast sell and with out having a lot of space to test items with and really have no problems since I offer a return and most things I pull to sell work already as for a store no I sell auction style because it gets more views and with that more people to contact that want special orders. I do that with my good regulars kind of like the wish list on ebay I have a updated list for different buyers so I can fill it when I come across things and know when they have gotten something already.
as for knowing prices I learned a lot over the years for some stuff to sell but mostly I just put random prices higher and lower depending so I can catch both ends of people searching as long as it sells fast and I put no more than 3 days on a auction because any longer it stalls and needs to come up right away for people on at least the first 2 pages so that it does sell fast

todays crazy load 8 lcd displays 7 printers 2 60in tvs 90 keyboards a mix of other stuff and 15 3ft hdmi display port cables and nothing that works lol even the cables are bad lol but still some money but a lot more work lol

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What do you do with your keyboards?

some get broke down to sell for keys and mylar others for resale but most get saved to build larger loads to sell at one time and then of course when all else fails our city grinds them up to help make our electricity lol

I love people who don't want to work hard I was at an auction yesterday and pallets of computers go for $40-75 there part stripped lumped together and one person looked at the pallet and said who buys these I cant even sell these and I work on computers.....so I pulled the tag quietly... then he said your going to do all that work for a few bucks and I said with a smile ya I build my own business around this but its not for everyone. what makes this day better was the tag was priced wrong it was a single computer for $5 that someone probably sat down and they just taped it on by accident but even more so for me because there was three pallets and I already had gotten a few other things including computers as well they let me have it for $5 anyway.
I laughed all the time I was loading them in the truck because the pallet had 30 reg dells 14small factor type ones and 6 servers plus the 8 other computers and 17 typewriters I got for a total of $19
after spending about 4hrs total tear down
780lbs of tin= $46.80
12lbs crap wire=4.08
16lbs duel s server boards= $60
38lbs small socket = 58.90
0.78lb green with s= 4.71
2.67lbs finger cards= 10.01
3.28lbs memory= 44.28
no drive boards yet I do them when I get a few hundred at a time to make better weight sending in
rough total before shipping and expenses $228.78 and that's with me dinking around having fun on a beautiful day that I was not really even going to do much so I like working this business its tuff at times but good money

Wow this thread has me inspired.

I'm assuming that since you've been doingvg this for years you just know where the auctions are/who's hosting the party but where did you first hear or find them?

Checking out govedeals now...whole world I never knew about!

I live in a college town so we have surplus auctions each week and city auctions each month or so plus a lot of mix of others but most things usually will be listed in the paper or clist is a great place to look for ones that are not really publicized