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I have a local pretty large computer shop wanting $0.50c per tower/PC minus the hard-drive. Most have RAM, some don't. I lost another large shop locally that closed down, so I need something to fill that void. I usually don't like to pay for anything, but this seems pretty cheap. Most are from early 2000s to newer/current setups. They have 40 units I can pick up Monday. I told them I would stop by. They said no HDDs due to privacy concerns. What are yalls thoughts?
I'd b all over it at that price. Good luck!
If you get it I am sure they may have lots more stuff for you at $.50 it is worth the low risk, I would do it as well!
Yep jump on it. 73, Mike
50 cents per tower?
yes, 50c per tower minus HDD. MB, finger boards, and MB/CPU in them. Some have ram, some don't. I figure just the heat sink alone would cover the 50c cost. Rest is profit. I asked about laptops, they said they keep them for parts. Ill talk with them in person Monday. I have another shop to pick up from Monday also.
The heat sink most of time won't get you $.50 but the iron case will at least get you $1.00 here in scrap. $.50 is a bargain. I offer people $3 to $5 dollars here per tower and no one is really interested.
Thanks for the info. Shred here like $60/ton, aluminum extrusion is around 55-60c/lb. Ill report back monday on this deal.
Can you do a 'onsite destruction of the HDD'? Like, use a hammer and bash it in front of them....
The Ali in a hard drive is worth good money, technically its 'Extrustion' if its high pressure diecast, extrusion if its extruded, cast if its older/silvery/obviously cast Ali.
Also there's the board on it, very high grade/just good 'ol high grade, but a bonus.
Once you have taken the board off, unless that individual boards mated back to that individual HDD, its not likely to go again, sometimes a exact replacement board will work for a while for data recovery, but not long-term.
However, after the HDD has been bashed with a hammer and the platters bent, there's no way to recover the data unless its for forensics, where all they need is proof that a certain bit of information on it could not have come from anywhere else. Not the actual data.
The magnets, some electric motors, the arms got Gold wire tracing from what I'm told and a big bucket of them is worth $$. A bit of Stainless steel sometimes in the covers, sometimes two sheets, one stainless, one steel, glued together.
Here's my hard drive destruction system. No-one that's ever seen it in action has ever doubted its efficacy or had any concern that their data wasn't well & truly destroyed.
I actually bought it over 25 years ago when I lived in Colorado & was pursuing a more geological gold recovery past-time. ;)
https://www.amazon.com/Estwing-E30-L...ds=rock+hammer
https://s4.postimg.org/f6qyae2r1/rham.jpg
Let 'em keep the hard drives...At 50 cents per tower, just make sure that you show up on time Monday, looking professional and remember to leave your contact information for any future pickups...A good first impression will always go far in any business...Good Luck...
business cards loaded in the wallet and ready to roll.
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Hell of a deal! Was given a box of just boards, ram, cpu chips, power supplies and a few laptop batteries for free. 44 towers, cost me $22. Gave me a heavy chunk of large copper cable they found in the parking lot and 2 battery back ups which one of them has to weigh close to 100lbs bc it took 2 of us to load it into the truck. I would say even though I paid $22 in cash for just the towers, they ended up being free with the weight in batteries alone on the back ups. One of the battery back ups has a 220V plug on it. Ive never seen that! Ill make that deal all day, every day!
Look into better than scrap sale on that water cooler and look up those graphics cards. You might be surprised
Good score !!!
My life is soo busy with all the jobs and irons in fires I have, that trying to make a few more bucks on that cooler is just not worth my time. I can make more money in that time than it would take me to post and try to ebay it. The cards are all dead according to the shop. Nothing I received was still in working order. They said the guy that was picking up has been MIA for the past 6months or more and they were looking for a new guy for recycling that's dependable. I told them I have a 24hr pickup guarantee as long as I am not out of town. They were very happy and so am I. I am very curious to see what that super heavy backup holds. I know the case was steel, but for it to have a 220V plug and weigh 100lbs, its got to have some serious lead batteries in it.
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Originally Posted by aaron p
The battery backup will have a nice transformer in it also.
If you don't have time for resale, maybe find someone in your town that does and you can drop off and split profits. I have deals with several people in town for reselling things that I have no time or knowledge to mess with.
50 cents is a great price. I try not to pay, but I have several shops that I paid for material when I started and I still do, but not as much as when I started. I now offer free data destruction and that gets me in a whole lot of doors. You may be able to keep getting computers from this company, but what happens when someone comes along and offers on sight hard drive crushing for free?
Figure out a way to do that. And not just by swinging a hammer. Granted the hammer will do the job, but when I lay my leverage crusher on the tailgate of my truck and just bust them up in seconds each, it goes a long way.
My hammer does do the job, but you're right... it's not going to cut it with any real companies.Quote:
Originally Posted by parrothead
Would you mind posting model/specs/pricing/source of your HD crusher?
An investment like that is probably my next logical step.
THANKS!
The week has been good. Craigslist ad got me a entire truck bed full of laptops and boards free today.
lol nice thats a good looking hammer=)Quote:
Originally Posted by auminer
i would die to get copper cable like that looks hard to cut into is the isulation hard? that would go as bare bright for sure if you stripped it that is. yeah most ups ones i have gotten battery is only worth 1$ but yours are gona be worth more im sure. nice stuffQuote:
Originally Posted by aaron p
Its 5kv cable according to a electrician I know.
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Pics of inside that UPS and the laptop load from yesterday. Lots and lots of work to get done. Scrap prices on base metals are coming up, so its time to strip and sell quick!
It was a busy weekend, but we knocked out about 35 lap tops. Almost a entire 55 gallon barrel full of laptop mother boards, Over a pound of green fiber pinned CPUs, 2 pounds of ram, and 40+lbs of Li-ion batteries with lots of misc. wifi and other type boards. 2 of the laptops were pretty old and had AMD ceramic large socket CPUs in them, nice little extra bonus. We still have about 15 or so more lap tops to go and almost 50 towers. Its over 110 heat index here today, so I will work at night on them or bring what I can inside. Picked up two 15000 BTU window ac units today as well. Process, process, process!
Yep, it all a lot like work. Mike
I like your signature quote about profit Mike. Very true statement
Loving this thread. Your pictures have me smiling ear to ear. I miss those days!
I have a store I pick up from also. I signed a waiver for them for the hard drives so I get them all also. It's not a lot, 10-20 towers and some laptops and boards and stuff but it's all free, so I'm good with that.