I have been recycling cell phones for a few years now, and here are some of the things I need to say...
1) If I wanted to set a price, I would have done so and not to pm me. But I mainly put these up here to see if someone would pay me more than what I paid for. If no one buys them, it's no problem because I have an estimate of how much gold (I), would expect to recover from these boards, and not even including the other components.
2) If anyone has the thought of an item going down in value because of it already being depopulated BUT, ALL pieces are there, they should get out of the business. Who wouldn't LOVE, I mean LOVE the fact that I'm getting everything of that item, but they done the hard work of removing the parts that I was going to remove anyway. They took the HARD WORK out of it, so now it's not worth that much.
If you think like that, you're in the wrong business.
3.If I was getting phones for $5 lb, depending on certain conditions, anyone can EASILY turn that $5 into at least $60. Depending on the cell phones, you can spend $150 and EASILY, EASILY turn it into $600+. I do it every time I invest into cell phones.
4.Many of you invest into cell phones/boards and such probably looking at your stockpile at one direction. I don't. I don't buy sell phones often, but when I do, I have ALWAYS turned that amount over at the least 6 or 7 times. I have more than 3 different ways I get paid off of sell phones, where many of you just look at the gold content ALONE, but not looking at the fact that you can recover more cash than you can gold from cell phones. That's a FACT! I do it all the time. I'm still in the green from $180 investment back in Jan 2016.
Probably most of you buy cell phones and miss the REAL money/GOLD potential they contain. Don't get me wrong, I know how to refine too. I can easily do these boards and other pieces myself too, and easily recover gold.
5.Many of you more than likely buy phones at low prices because you have to strip them down away from the housing, whereas I would pay the same amount, and even more than you and still would be able to turn a residual income from that one-time investment.
I may do these boards myself anyway because I want to know yields. And the whole key to getting close to accurate yields on cell phone boards is to keep notes on the amount of cell phone boards you processed. If you process cell phone boards all the time and do at least the same amount all the time, you'll easily have an idea of the amount of gold to expect from the boards alone.
You have to keep notes of all the components and process everything to get that gold amount. Then you add that to the gold amount you got from just the boards.
As long as I know what I'm getting, why would I complain that it has been depopulated. With that said, it's just as good as saying that I'll expect to get more because I didn't touch it all, yet the next person has to either strip it or sell it as is. I don't see any other way.
And then the same thing is hitting you in the face because now people want to pay less because they have to do all the work of depopulating it to get to the gold. Their time is money. Either way, I see this more than often. The work involved into depopulating cell phones is more than many of you will want to be doing often, by yourself.
Many of you are buying cell phones and don't have a clue as to what you're buying. You're focused on something other than your main objective, and that is MAXIMIZE what you can make. I'm sure there aren't any compilation of cell phone board yields (including components) available. That is part of my goal too. To compile board photos of cell phones/smartphones/boards to know how much visible gold is available. I can show pictures of cell phone boards that have very little to almost no gold on them at all. And just because you have a good deal on the amount you're paying (by weight) that means you can pay $100 and recover $19 worth of gold.
6.This thread was started and asking interested parties to pm me. I don't mind some of the questions asked so I can be aware of them myself, some things replied to here have nothing what-so-ever to do with "If You're Interested, PM Me!"
Really understand these boards before you invest into them, and take a common sense approach to knowing what to expect. Some people will discourage others more than often enough to know that there are people that will keep finding fault in what you're selling here. I'm not upset at all. It makes me wonder because some people that do a lot of speaking should be able to evaluate it themselves and make a REALISTIC determination of what something is worth.
7. Too many people talk about everything under the sun that is wrong with your stuff or want to PUBLICLY offer a "half-donkey" price on you, to throw that out there to now get EVERYONE willing to pay you around that amount, give or take a few dollars.
If any of you pay even $20 lb for cell phones/boards whatever, and can't turn that $20 into AT LEAST $$85 - $120, then you shouldn't say what they're worth. I know round about what I will get out of this. And that's just the boards, with nothing on them. Just the boards.
I bought these boards at a good price to refine them myself, but kinda need to sell them, but don't have to sell them. I want to keep them for the yield reports and learning experiences, but I can use the cash. That is for the most part. But if someone was willing to pay me what I paid for it, getting just the boards, I will sell. If no one buys, guess what?... I'll still make what I paid for this off of just the depopulated boards alone.
8. Please STOP posting here with comments of discussion whereas I am trying to sell. PM me please. STOP making these "FOR SALE OR TRADE" threads another "Soap Opera City". I want interested parties to pm me with an offer. If not, no skin off my back. I'm going to get the experience of getting more and more cell phone yields. That will go into my book of knowledge.
scrapparts!
too bad you can't ship them my way scrapparts 
