Originally Posted by
jimicrk
"this isn't worth $4/lb to me to do these"
I think some of you are looking at this the wrong way. Maybe it's me.
An example would be Saturday. I had some computers in the garage and I went out and pulled the ram and processors. I brought the good ones in and checked the buyers list. WoooHooo, I made $175 in an hour.......no I didn't because I'm not done. I still have to finish the computers and then add everything up. It won't add up to $175 an hour but it dang sure won't be $4 an hour.
Quit grabbing all the good stuff and selling it first. It sucks when you let the power supplies and cd drives pile up.
Just my 2 cents.
I dont care too much about the profit and money, it is just a benifit of me doing this. I do this as a hobby and for fun. I do like trying to maximize profit as part of the hobby, but not at the expense of enjoyment. I didnt have fun tearing apart the CD drives before, even if the boards were worth $1000/lb (ok, then I might regardless of "fun"). As I am taking stuff apart, sometimes in the middle of it I will say "f" this thing Im tired of messing with it and throw it into the shred pile. I know I leave money on the table sometimes, but if it stops being fun then I'll stop doing it all-together.
I will give them another shot though for sure, since I must have been wrong in my original assement of the drives since everyone here says they are not hard lol
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