Six months ago I paid 34 dollars for a pallet of old emacs......Today My bid is up to $129 on the same machine same amount etc......Someone is getting hip to these old computers......LOL
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Six months ago I paid 34 dollars for a pallet of old emacs......Today My bid is up to $129 on the same machine same amount etc......Someone is getting hip to these old computers......LOL
"There's god in 'Dem Der Hills..." Err I mean computers. Didn't you hear? Those things have gold in them!
Thank the reality shows Auction Hunters, Storage Wars, Baggage Wars, Etc. People think that they can make big bucks for quick and cheep! LOL
Should just leave it to the pros !
When people, who can't afford to lose money, start to lose enough money...the buzz will die down.
My own biggest problem is that I watch these shows and think " I could do that...sheesh" but then I watch these shows and think "They are NOT selling that trash for those prices" so i realize "I don't want to do that".
This e-waste biz is the first idea of mine, my fiance has liked. She's supported them all, but this is the first she's liked. I'm going to start using that as my barometer...lol!
Well I ended up with them for $150..........I easily made well over that last time just going to have a much smaller profit margin.........LOL
if you put a serious bid on an auction early, you'll then watch it get devoured bit by bit until it's gone
Yeah I didn't even bid till the last day of the auction........Paid $7.50 each for these as there are 20 on pallet.........I will have to tear down quick and I'm going to weigh stuff to see how I did and if it is profitable to spend this kind of money on computers....However if you know anything bout these they are crt's as well
good luck Mike. I ran out of monitors one time and had to get some locally, so i bid on some in the nashville, or tn one there in nashville. When I picked them up, there were a number of metal gaylord size racks loaded with those, the guy loading trucks saw me looking at them, and said i could have any i wanted cause they were being tossed, i picked out a couple that i could see had hard drives
The place I'm going I have bought from before and they don't give away anything however I have been to some of these gov surplus places that just want to unload **** and will load the truck down.....What makes this okay is that the pickup is less than a mile from the house
I've broke down the old Telvidoeo computers. They are the old floppy's with monitors built in. Old board, and wasn't much to be made.
You done these emacs...I did a pallet before and made out pretty well....Mboard, Low Grade board, Copper Yoke, Lots of aluminum, Hard Drive, Ram, ETC......
No, this was telvideo I did. About 15 of them. Turned out ok, but took a minute to do. Got the yoke and 1 low grade board, few wires. Yoke was small. I just did a load of DPL tv's. great boards, and copper.
Here's the results of a couple of auctions I was watching. I don't understand how to make money at these prices. I keep hoping I can get one of the winners to get discouraged and sell them to me.
Item No. Description Amount
37 One lot of 14 Dell Optiplex 745 computers. Some, if not all, may be missing parts such as hard drives, RAM, etc. Offered as is. Condition unknown. $462.00
39 One lot of 14 Dell Optiplex GX620 computers. May be missing parts such as hard drives, RAM, etc. Offered as is. Condition unknown. $462.00
40 One lot of 8 HP Compaq d530 computers and 6 HP Compaq dc7600 computers. Some, if not all, may be missing parts such as hard drives, RAM, etc. Offered as is. Condition unknown. $362.00
Total Amount $1,286.00
This was a single buyer. $1286.00/42 towers = $30.61 per tower. Mike.
At those rates there is not much point scrapping computers. You might as well save them up until you have a bunch, take out the ram, hdd and cpu and then sell them as condition unknown.
I have bought some from the state auctions and that's how most of them come, no hard drive, little or no ram.
That's my confusion on the profitablity of buying them in the state they are in. If you buy ram, hard drive, install operating system, add in key board, lcd monitor and mouse $100-150 seems like a lot of work with little return. Also you have to deal with retail customers.
I want to convince myself it a good idea but not yet. The one auction I got was 41 towers for $255 or $6.22/tower not including the 8 lcd monitors that came with. Mike.
I did 5 yesterday and they all have hard drive and four had ram.....The reason they don't take hard drive out of these is because it's hard to get into them compared to a tower.....Anyway I should make a little dough
I have been looking at govdeals.com and I noticed at the bottom of page of the auction you are looking at you can send the seller a question regarding the sale. Only draw back is that question and answer is posted for all to see. But I agree with you the prices for what people are paying is out of wack. Only thing I can figure is that 1-they are repair places looking for inventory 2- new to scrapping and will realize shortly they will be in the red or 3- out of all those parts, they are putting together working computers and reselling them at a price that is reasonable at a profit.
If Mike the Scrapper gets American Scrapper on the air like he's been pitching we are all screwed!Quote:
Originally Posted by hobo finds
Let's all hope that never happens, there's enough people out there now who think they know what they are doing!Quote:
Originally Posted by burrage1
We need to silence him then lol...
He's been pitching that %^&@ for about 8 months! If that goes through everybody and their mother becomes a scrapper. If you don't believe me ask me what I used to do before I scrapped... I bought storage lockers in the Huntsville area... I wouldn't go to an auction now if they paid me 5 bucks. Some of them now have so many people that they can charge a 10 fee just to participate in the auction. If he gets that show I'll never get another computer, everybody will be an overnight scrapper / amateur gold refiner!
We need to stop scrap tv shows quick, they will ruin the scrapping world!
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I'm kidding about taping him to a chair in his sleep though.
those auctions sound suspiciously like the auctions from U of Florida in Gainsville the guy in charge down there strips them then sells them on gov auction sites. later he will sell boxes of chips ram etc.
Quote:
Item No. Description Amount
37 One lot of 14 Dell Optiplex 745 computers. Some, if not all, may be missing parts such as hard drives, RAM, etc. Offered as is. Condition unknown. $462.00
39 One lot of 14 Dell Optiplex GX620 computers. May be missing parts such as hard drives, RAM, etc. Offered as is. Condition unknown. $462.00
40 One lot of 8 HP Compaq d530 computers and 6 HP Compaq dc7600 computers. Some, if not all, may be missing parts such as hard drives, RAM, etc. Offered as is. Condition unknown. $362.00
Total Amount $1,286.00
Full article at Scrap Metal Forum: http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/elect...#ixzz2NCYo61cR
i dont see that as too bad. I am getting $100 ea on these with windows installed. Throw in a flatscreen and get around $150. Some of the bigger shops getting around $200 and up for the complete systems
Auctions are a really funny thing. They change from day to day. In my area, computers often go online for 10-15.00 EXCEPT on Thursdays. For some reason, the guys that are hot and heavy about overpaying for computers just don't bid on Thursday and I pick them up for 2-3.00. I don't find much on GovDeals. Things just go for too much. I always have better luck on small auction sites and local auctions. There are plenty of other superior sites to GovDeals that have very low traffic. If you don't live next door to me send me a PM and I'll share.
I am just glad that TLC hasn't started a show called "Tech Scrapper Gold Rush " yet, with some brash a*holes sitting on a pile of media money and outbidding everybody on a pile of P4 systems. I can just see the soundbytes...."(holds up Pentium Pro) See this here? These have at least a third of an ounce apiece. We are going to make out like bandits on this!"Quote:
Originally Posted by hobo finds
I know why they're not bidding on Thursdays. That's the day the estate sales start and they're all trying to make a killing buying stuff from them!Quote:
Originally Posted by Phantoms001
That's a pretty interesting take.Quote:
Originally Posted by BurlyGuys
Estate sales around here are priced even stooopiderer than auctions.
I walked in to one home a coupla weeks ago, first thing I spotted was a bookshelf with a set of encyclopaedias from 1968. That caught my eye since I was born that year. They wanted.... get this.... $400 frickin $#%@^$ dollars for a set of encyclopaedias that are 45 frickin $#%*&@$ years old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I turned around & left.
I also used to buy storage units back when I could get a unit for 50.00-60.00$. That was about 10 years ago and I thought the same way that when people found that they were paying way to much money the prices would come down. Then when the economy went down the drain I though that maybe people wouldn't have the money to spend and the prices would come down. Wrong!! Still can't get a storage unit for less than 3-400.00. The same with computers, I wonder if these people are selling the parts on e-bay.
More auction silliness.
How's a scrapper supposed to compete with people willing to pay 20, 40, even 50 frickin bucks for a used 80GB HD windows XP computer??!!??
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Because you aren't competing with other scrappers.Quote:
Originally Posted by auminer
You can sell an 80 GB HD Windows XP computer for $80-$120
These people aren't scrapping the computers....
This whole thread is rather pointless.
You guys are assuming you are competing with other scrappers.
Same crowd...Quote:
Originally Posted by Phantoms001