Cash In The Trash - Playlist Dealing With E-scrap

These are some excellent informative videos, especially for someone mostly involved with taking in e-waste. Thanks

Originally Posted by nTXscrapper

These are some excellent informative videos, especially for someone mostly involved with taking in e-waste. Thanks

Thank you

Today I scrap a Web TV unit.
This is an 'old dinosaur' from back in the days when internet was not integrated into everything.

I have a guy who buys my computer towers at .26 cents a pound with drive in it. He says its not worth my time to tear them down, Is he wrong? Is it better to tear them down? I can tear it down in just a few minutes. Thanks for your reply

Originally Posted by Scrapking14

I have a guy who buys my computer towers at .26 cents a pound with drive in it. He says its not worth my time to tear them down, Is he wrong? Is it better to tear them down? I can tear it down in just a few minutes. Thanks for your reply

you'll have to figure out what is best for you, but pretty sure most everyone here does tear down.............what does he do with them. i bet its worth his time to tear down

Originally Posted by Scrapking14

I have a guy who buys my computer towers at .26 cents a pound with drive in it. He says its not worth my time to tear them down, Is he wrong? Is it better to tear them down? I can tear it down in just a few minutes. Thanks for your reply

With a screw gun, I can take a tower apart in under 2 minutes. Each brand and model of tower has a different value. They can weigh 10 to 20 lbs each.

It's up to you to determine if the parts in each tower are worth it. Take a few towers apart, weight the individual parts, find a middle-of-the-road ( current ) price ... than figure out shipping costs, how much you spent to acquire the units, and how many units you can rip up in an hour.
After everything is said and down, you should have a rough idea how much you make per hour.
Now figure out how many units you can get in a day or week, your costs, and how much the guy is going to pay out.



(( Personally - after accounting for high shipping costs in my area - $0.26 /lb seems like an OK price for whole towers ))

Originally Posted by Scrapking14

I have a guy who buys my computer towers at .26 cents a pound with drive in it. He says its not worth my time to tear them down, Is he wrong? Is it better to tear them down? I can tear it down in just a few minutes. Thanks for your reply

Have you even considered the value of more than scrap items? There are units out there that could be worth 40 times or more, than thier scrap value.

In regards to shipping, do your own research. If you are having issues, ask. Most of us don't bite (that often).

Thanks for all the replies guys! I appreciate it. The beautiful thing is its a huge buyer here in NJ, I am talking tractor trailers in and out all the time. Its the place where all the scrap yard around here sell to! Its a few miles away so no shipping. I took up 401 pounds of processed parts and received 300.00. most of the weight was the power supplies.....what I will do is weigh the next load I have as whole towers and then break them down and which price is better. I am saving all my chips however until I can sort them.

Originally Posted by Scrapking14

Thanks for all the replies guys! I appreciate it. The beautiful thing is its a huge buyer here in NJ, I am talking tractor trailers in and out all the time. Its the place where all the scrap yard around here sell to! Its a few miles away so no shipping. I took up 401 pounds of processed parts and received 300.00. most of the weight was the power supplies.....what I will do is weigh the next load I have as whole towers and then break them down and which price is better. I am saving all my chips however until I can sort them.

The part I think your missing is more than scrap value (ie. Resale). A single i7 cpu could be worth $70 or more. 1gb and higher memory can be resold. Check the buyers section. You could be throwing hundreds of dollars away.