Scrap motherboards/computer boards

[DesStuffInc]

I have up to 60lbs of motherboard (will be getting more), i've been getting 4.20 a lb but i'm willing to negotiate. All transactions through paypal please.

Edit: Can be broken up into smaller lots or if you're looking for a larger amount I get more weekly.

 

[Anonymous]

Welcome to the forum.
Where are you selling your boards for $4.20 lb? If you are getting $4.20 lb. why aren't you still selling to them?
With you being brand new to the forum,you will have a difficult time finding anyone that would be willing to paypal you that much money,and we do not have a lot of members in CT.,there are a few,though I doubt highly they would pay such a high price for them.That is about the absolute maximum that anyone would pay unless the boards were something special(mil-spec,tel-com).Most of the buyers on ebay pay $2-$3 per pound then has them shipped on their own shipping account.

 

[DesStuffInc]

A recycling company called Wits, but unfortunately I havent been able to get a hold of my contact in awhile, odd seeing she paid then never sent Fedex..I'm sure I will hear from her but I have diapers to buy so I cant really wait. She told me 4.20 was the current market price. Anyone interested can give me their own offers and i'll see what I can do. Thanks for your help.

I also have about 5lbs of mixed cpu's and ram cards.

 

[glorycloud]

Around here I can get $2.50 - $3.00 per pound as well.
Some folks say $3.40 or so a pound these days. I did sell
(500+) pounds and I did get paid by Paypal at the $4.20 a pound price.

Check what computer scrap sells for on ebay on the completed
listings and decide if you want to sell it there maybe? You can
offer it here and see what happens. 8)

 

[patnor1011]

There is a place in Belgium if I remember correctly which pay 8 euros for kilo. However minimum delivery is 10 metric tons. I know company in Lithuania which pays 5.79euros for kilo which is 12.2 $ / kilo - 5.5$ / pound. :mrgreen:
http://www.novitera.lt/index.php?lang=EN (that is very good price isn't it?)

 

[escrap]

Wits is right down the road from us. It is really kind of a funny business, they work as a non-profit yet buy this material. As far as I know they are not currently buying anymore. But I could be mistaken.

 

[Anonymous]

Non-profit = Not wanting to pay taxes.
You know they get their money from someplace to pay their bills.It doesn't just magically appear.

 

[escrap]

Non-profit = Not wanting to pay taxes.

Exactly. Must be nice

 

[element47]

Maybe this is predatory; But I can't help thinking that if you were to pull the memory and add-in cards (for the fingers) and pry off any blatantly gold-flashed CPU chips that if you could get $4.20/lb for everything else on the motherboard you wouldn't be doing badly at all.

 

[escrap]

Element,

The problem with that is, once you start taking some of the goodies off boards your price will start to decline. So even if some were paying that, they would not pay that for boards without components.

Zack

 

[element47]

I have no doubt about that, Zack. My use of the word "predatory" implied that less-than-observant folk would be buying on behalf of the non-profit on a "toss it over in that pile" basis....and so "cherry-picking" PC-type scrap would be thus be taking advantage in a way; but that would probably extinguish itself after a short while, and perhaps that's what the original poster experienced. I am still of the belief that in lowish quantities, one is better off selling the "cream" of escrap (fingers and Au-chips) on ebay and taking a buck or two less per pound on depleted-motherboard crud, rather than chemically refining low gram weights of Au. But I'm willing to be shown wrong on that opinion.

 

[dtectr]

At least, here in Missouri:
The not-for-profits around here are the means by which the computer/electronics mfrs use to provide a "green cycle" consisting of sales, then helping the public to dispose of outdated or defective equipment, federally mandated for them (why Best Buy "provides the service" letting you drop off your old stuff).

So they (mfrs) have Goodwill, for example, collect it for them, some guy at the regional office plugs some in to see if they work for re-sale (repaired" in their advertising), sorted, then balance sold to certified & approved scrappers. You usually have to pay them to leave CRTs & TVs. (Which means here, they wind up in someone's ditch. Nothing like the govt to give illegal dumpers an entrepreneurial edge)