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Well today was my first day selling at a flea market. One of my buyers convinced me it would be worth the effort to try to market some of my computers at the flea market. I'm glad I took his advice. He approached me with this idea a few weeks ago and instead of selling him my computers he said he'd take certain ones home to refurb. And those we will sell at the flea market and split the profits. I was down for the idea because based off of his numbers I'd be making more versus just selling them to him. This guy was smart because now he knows he gets first take on all of my stuff versus before I had multiple buyers coming in and he was stuck with the lower end stuff. Not sure if every weekend will work out this way but today we were able to sell 7 whole setups with 17 inch LCD monitors. 5 sold for $120 (2 people bought 2 each) and two for $150. One lap top for $145 and two monitors for $25 each. That gave me almost $600. In the past all of that stuff would have been sold to any one of my buyers for $200. And if I scrapped it, probably less than $100. I owe it all to "my computer geek". All I have to do is supply the computers. He does 95 percent of the rest. Once he cuts me out of the equation, I will double my prices to him.

Thats how I'm making the majority of my money right now. I scrap what I can especially if its too old and then I sell the rest. Of course I am my own computer geek. So really I'm working both sides right now. I don't do this full time but man its making a dent in my credit card bill and providing me with some spending cash at the same time.

Yep! Having some IT guys up your sleeve can turn your $13 of scrap into $100 real fast using parts you already have laying around. I recently purchased 25 Dell Latitude D630's, 620s for approximately $25 and have sold 15 for $100 bucks each.

Nice going Scrapcrazy I hope it continues to go well for you!! My son's friend that was here the other night (little computer geek lol) said he would hook me up with his brother if I wanted, apparently he picks up used parts and empty cases and makes them whole and sells them. Would be nice if I could get something going like what you have, maybe I should give it a shot and at least talk to the kid, never know what it could bring.

I own a pretty successful computer store/shop. A little best buy at marginal the costs to customers. I am now moving into the recycling part. We basically don't pay for a lot of items now, except high end stuff and new stuff we sell. It has taken what's already successful and made it even better. So my point is if you can do both. Do it. Especially if you are in the right area.

My best move so far was hooking up with a tech who works and sells from his home.Thats where my best profits are coming from. He loves to buy my ram. I turned a $8 lot of ram into $90.00 on Tuesday.