Salvage TV's

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02-24-2020, 04:40 PM
vitamin6

Salvage TV's

Good Evening,

I buy salvage cracked screen TV's by the truck load every few months. Im looking for a buyer or buyers. Im located in St Louis, Mo. and my prices are very reasonable and I'm willing to work something out with the right individual or company. Interested parties should contact me ASAP!

Thanks for reading.
02-24-2020, 05:09 PM
mikeinreco

What exactly are u selling?
02-24-2020, 07:30 PM
kss

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Originally Posted by vitamin6

Good Evening,

I buy salvage cracked screen TV's by the truck load every few months. Im looking for a buyer or buyers. Im located in St Louis, Mo. and my prices are very reasonable and I'm willing to work something out with the right individual or company. Interested parties should contact me ASAP!

Thanks for reading.

You buy salvage cracked sceen tvs? are you looking to buy more tvs off here? or??
02-25-2020, 01:23 AM
jimicrk

Hard to tell but I think he's selling cracked or broken TV's.
02-25-2020, 07:01 AM
auminer

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Originally Posted by jimicrk

Hard to tell but I think he's selling cracked or broken TV's.

Wait.... people buy those? :&
02-25-2020, 08:49 AM
406Refining

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Originally Posted by auminer

Wait.... people buy those? :&

For a short little while I was buying them on SMF and locally for $5-$25 per unit. It only lasted a few months since I started getting more broken TV's locally. The nail in the coffin was when I picked up a pallet of TV's locally and found multiple boards were missing. You can't really test a TV with a missing board. I also found that almost every one I was getting had a broken screen so selling locally was completely out of the question. My plan was to pull boards from the broken screen units and hold them for repairing TV's locally, but I ran into the same issue I had with microwave control boards. At one point I had 300 MW boards and none of them were the same! The sheer number of TV's out there makes your chances of having the same board in stock extremely slim.

I have been toying with the idea of buying them again, but it would be per pound, not per unit. I haven't decided on prices yet, but the current range is $0.04-$0.10/lb. Locally I usually buy them per unit instead of per pound. The ultimate deciding factor on the price is going to be based on what I get paid for the shredded up plastics I am currently sitting on (1,000 pounds). I found a buyer that will buy them, but their minimum is 30k pounds. I'm figuring plastic shreds will pack more weight into a gaylord so it will take less space.
02-25-2020, 08:52 AM
kss

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Originally Posted by 406Refining

For a short little while I was buying them on SMF and locally for $5-$25 per unit. It only lasted a few months since I started getting more broken TV's locally. The nail in the coffin was when I picked up a pallet of TV's locally and found multiple boards were missing. You can't really test a TV with a missing board. I also found that almost every one I was getting had a broken screen so selling locally was completely out of the question. My plan was to pull boards from the broken screen units and hold them for repairing TV's locally, but I ran into the same issue I had with microwave control boards. At one point I had 300 MW boards and none of them were the same! The sheer number of TV's out there makes your chances of having the same board in stock extremely slim.

I have been toying with the idea of buying them again, but it would be per pound, not per unit. I haven't decided on prices yet, but the current range is $0.04-$0.10/lb. Locally I usually buy them per unit instead of per pound. The ultimate deciding factor on the price is going to be based on what I get paid for the shredded up plastics I am currently sitting on (1,000 pounds). I found a buyer that will buy them, but their minimum is 30k pounds. I'm figuring plastic shreds will pack more weight into a gaylord so it will take less space.

If I could get even $0.01/lb locally for CRTs I would make a killing. There are literally hundred of them I see for free that I pass on every month because I have no buyers.
02-25-2020, 12:33 PM
mikeinreco

You realize at one cent per pound you would have to move 1000 pounds to get $10
02-25-2020, 12:49 PM
kss

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Originally Posted by mikeinreco

You realize at one cent per pound you would have to move 1000 pounds to get $10

Yea, but that is better than having to PAY to get rid of dismantled tube TVs. If I could get somewhere to take the tubes and plastic (even for free) after taking the boards, cords, wires, an yokes out..... I'd pick tvs up. But since they are such a hassle to get rid of by me, the couple bucks from the innards arent worth dealing with having to get rid of the outsides.