I broke down and actually paid for some cell phones

[cyberdan]

Up till now I had always gotten my e-waste for free. But, the yard sale I went to last saturday had a big box of older cell phones. I asked how much for all and he said $100, I immediatly came back with $35. I don't know why cause I really didn't want to pay anything. I tried to lift the box and with my bad back I knew it was too heavy and didn't want to take a chance. He tried to get me to go a little higher so I acted uninterested and started looking at other things he had and he said OK on $35 and he put the box in my car.

I got home and counted them. It seemed like more because of the weight but there were 147 phones. 95% were the older non-flip ones.

There is gold in every cell phone and I pull the circuit boards and list on ebay for gold recovery. My first batch of phone boards on ebay sold for $80 (53 phones) so I figuer I will split this into three auctions. Now all I have to do is tear them all down.

 

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[Frank1960]

Hmm interesting will have to keep that in mind

 

[nick.foltz]

What do you put into the Ebay search engine to view that?

 

[trdhrdr007]

The wife works part time for a cell phone store in between painting gigs. They have a cell phone recycling place they send the phones(no batteries) to that pays $2/lb. I'm pretty sure the buyer covers shipping. I don't know how that compares to what you get on ebay but could find out who they deal with if you want me to.

 

[cyberdan]

I don't know how that compares to what you get on ebay but could find out who they deal with if you want me to.

Please send me the info. I grabbed 10 last night to strip down, took exactly 1 hour. If I could get $2 lb it might make it worthwhile to sell to them. Even better if they pay the freight. I am guessing that they weigh 65-75#

 

[allen]

sounds like a real interesting ideal !!