Jumper cables cell phones and computer towers from yard sales

[cyberdan]

Also, what do you do about cell phone batteries? I have a place that will buy them, but I can't mail them. Any suggestions?

The place I sell my cells to pays 75¢ for Li Ion batts. I ship fed-x and no problem AND Jack picks up the freight.

 

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[Bassmaster96]

Okay, I may check into fedex. I guess I'll just pile a whole bunch up before I sell them.

 

[jerseyben]

Okay, I may check into fedex. I guess I'll just pile a whole bunch up before I sell them.

If you want to make any kind of money with escrap you are going to need some serious bulk before even consider cashing in.

 

[Bassmaster96]

Yeah, I know. I don't care to send $50 off at a time-$50 profit that is. My plan was to ship the batteries with my other more valuable things like cpus, ram, finger cards, cell phones, etc. Now I guess I'll just plan on getting a ton of them and shipping them together and just sending them. Thanks for your comments guys!

 

[Bassmaster96]

What do you guys do with your plastic?

 

[cyberdan]

What do you guys do with your plastic?

recycle in my dumpster

 

[DeepseekerADS]

What do you guys do with your plastic?

Now if you're really going deep, turn them into diesel fuel!

How to turn plastic waste into diesel fuel cheaply

 

[Bassmaster96]

Okay. My recycling center doesn't take that plastic. I guess I'll just continue to send it to the landfill. Is there anywhere you could send it off to and break even or make a little bit?

 

[SilverForBrains]

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[jerseyben]

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That's why I offer to pay at least $5 per tower for older PC's. The 486 and older CPU's are worth around $5 each alone. The rest is icing on the cake.

 

[Frank1960]

Ok folks questions from a scrapper. I scrap the hard drives a lot of aluminum in them but what do you do with cell phones, ereaders and the rest of the pc's. I take all the wires out and sell them for insulated scrap. Jumper cables I strip worth the trouble for that extra money. Also strip the solid wire from houses and most large appliance cords. So what about the cells and ereaders? Thanks

Edit: oh yeah and where do you sell your cell phones?

 

[jerseyben]

Ok folks questions from a scrapper. I scrap the hard drives a lot of aluminum in them but what do you do with cell phones, ereaders and the rest of the pc's. I take all the wires out and sell them for insulated scrap. Jumper cables I strip worth the trouble for that extra money. Also strip the solid wire from houses and most large appliance cords. So what about the cells and ereaders? Thanks

Edit: oh yeah and where do you sell your cell phones?

Separate out all parts of the PC. The "money" parts are: the motherboard and all green boards, the CPU chip, the ram memory, and the hard drive green board. The rest is still money but less value in stripping it all apart so I just throw the different components in buckets. Scrap yard the case, power supply, and wires.

Cell phones I just dump the old broken ones in a big bucket. I have never had enough to sell so they are still collecting at this time.

 

[Bassmaster96]

Sell your cell phones on eBay, or research a place like boardsort.com that buys them. Right now without batteries, cell phones should be bringing $5.25 a pound. You have to pay shipping though.