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A friend has 20 to 25 pounds of hard drive boards to sell. No one buys e-waste locally, so I'm thinking we should mail them off. Would you use Boardsort.com or cashforcomputerscrap.com? Perhaps somewhere else?

Buying Electronic Precious Metal Scrap!
http://www.CashForComputerScrap.com

PRICING EFFECTIVE
6/6/2013

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Pricing delivered to our dock (44060)
PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS
Please remove batteries and excess AL and Steel
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$3.15 Motherboards Mixed Socket (Large and Small Socket)
$1.90 Small Socket Foreign Boards
$3.15 Finger Board Trimmed/Devalued
$4.20 Finger Boards
$4.20 Dual Socket Server Boards - Large Socket
$3.00 Dual Socket Server Boards - Small Socket
$3.00 to 6.00+ Telecom (Paid on Sort)
$3.00 CD/DVD Boards

HIGH VALUE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$6.50 RAMBUS (Memory with METAL Enclosure)
$10.10 Hard Drive Boards
$11.50 Cell Phone Boards CLEAN (please remove excess Plastic, Steel, Aluminum and Battery)
$14.00 Memory Mixed (Gold, Silver/Tin)
$14.50 Gold Memory
$13.25 Silver/Tin Memory
$50.00 Gold Fingers (Pricing is for quality cut trim. Little to no Green, otherwise deduction)
$11.25 Slot Processor

OTHER PRECIOUS METAL ITEMS
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$1.65 Gold Connectors
$5.65 Cell Phones w/o battery

CPUs (Must be Sorted)
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$127.00 Intel 386 and 486
$95.00 Motorola
$95.00 Pentium Pro Gold Caps
$50.00 Cyrix/IBM/VIA Gold Cap
$37.00 Pentium Ceramic
$30.00 AMD Ceramic Clean (without Al. Cap)
$33.00 Black Fiber CPU
$19.00 Green/Brown Fiber without Heatsink
$7.50 Green Fiber with Heatsink - Pins
$7.00 Green Fiber with Heatsink - Pinless

COMPUTER/SERVER PARTS
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$0.85 Hard Drives Complete
$0.40 Hard Drives w/o Boards
$0.35 Power Supply w/ Wire
$0.29 Power Supply w/o Wire
$0.15 Mixed Floppy/CD/DVD Drives

OTHER ITEMS
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$1.00 Laptops Complete
$0.75 Incomplete laptops (Must have Motherboard)
$0.30 AC Adapter w/ Wire
$0.24 AC Adapter w/o Wire
$0.75 Mixed Computer Wire
$0.09 Mixed Computer Plastic (NO METAL!)
$2.50 [per UNIT] Whole DESKTOP LCD, Complete With Base - No screen bleeding, gouges, Cracks, Cut cables




Prices are subject to change without notice.
Pricing is determined by date of RECEIPT of material unless otherwise noted.

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Sorted Boards


Large Socket Motherboard (no batteries) (Click to see description) $3.50 per pound
Small Socket GREEN Motherboard (no batteries) (Click to see description) $2.05 per pound
Small Socket CHINESE Motherboard (no batteries) (Click to see description) $1.65 per pound
Mixed Socket Motherboard Green and Chinese (no batteries) (Click to see description) $1.75 per pound
Gold Fingered Cards (Click to see description) $4.00 per pound
Trimmed Finger Cards (Click to see description) $2.80 per pound
Peripheral Board (no batteries) (Click to see description) $1.80 per pound
Dual Socket Server Board Large Socket(no batteries) (Click to see description) $4.00 per pound
Dual Socket Server Board Small Socket(no batteries) (Click to see description) $2.80 per pound
Telecom High Grade (no batteries) (Click to see description) $4.30 per pound
Back Plane Expansion Board (Click to see description) $2.75 per pound
Mid Grade Green Board (Click to see description) $0.40 per pound
Low Grade Brown Board (Click to see description) $0.15 per pound
Gold Tip Connector Ends (Click to see examples) $0.90 per pound
Gold/Silver/Tin Fingered Memory RAM $14.25 per pound
Fingerless (trimmed) Memory RAM $7.00 per pound
RAMBUS (metal cover) RAM $6.00 per pound
Slot Processors $9.75 per pound
Fingerless (trimmed) Slot Processors $5.00 per pound
Hard Drive Logic Boards (Click to see description) $9.75 per pound
IC Chips $6.00 per pound
Clean Gold Fingers $66.00 per pound


Sorted CPU Chips


386/486 $124.00 per pound
Double Side Gold Chips $98.00 per pound
Motorola/Foreign Gold Cap Chips $92.00 per pound
Pentium Pro Gold Cap Chips $89.00 per pound
Cyrix/IBM/VIA Gold Cap Chips $55.00 per pound
Pentium/Mac Ceramic Chips $36.50 per pound
AMD Ceramic Chips $26.50 per pound
AMD Aluminum Top K6 $25.75 per pound
Black Fiber Chips $34.50 per pound
Green/Brown Fiber No Metal $19.75 per pound
P4/Mac/Green Fiber Metal Top $7.00 per pound
No Pin Processors $6.25 per pound


Odds & Ends


CD/Disk/Floppy Drives $0.12 per pound
Power Supply Box with Wire $0.30 per pound
Power Supply Box without Wire $0.25 per pound
Li-Ion Batteries (Li-Ion only!) $1.10 per pound
Whole Hard Drive with Board $0.90 per pound
Whole Hard Drive without Board $0.35 per pound
Hard Drive Platters $0.35 per pound
Mixed Wire $0.60 per pound
Silver Plated Brass $2.00 per pound
Clean Aluminum Heat Sink $0.45 per pound
Clean Aluminum Copper Heat Sink $0.90 per pound
Clean Copper Heat Sink $2.25 per pound
Cell Phones with Battery $3.50 per pound
Cell Phones without Battery $5.50 per pound
Laptops (working and non-working) $0.75 per pound


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Thanks. I couldn't find prices on cashforcomputerscrap.com's website. Looks like they pay a touch more.

Does anyone know what to do with non-computer boards? I obviously strip off the electric motors, aluminum heat-sinks, and wires, but there's still a lot of weight there that currently is just junk to me. The yards around here do not take them. You can mix them in with dirty steel for 10/cents a pound but that is terrible.

I've got a box headed to cashforcomputerscrap today.

Boardsort took 5 days to give me a quote, but they do pay first.

cashforcomputerscrap sent me a fed-ex label based on total weight.

My box weighs 30lbs.

I haven't used cashforcomputerscrap so I can't comment on them. I used Boardsort a couple years ago and it was smooth sailing. I contacted them again to evaluate a potential deal earlier this year. The deal didn't work out for other reasons but Boardsort was responsive.

AGgressive Metal wrote:Does anyone know what to do with non-computer boards? I obviously strip off the electric motors, aluminum heat-sinks, and wires, but there's still a lot of weight there that currently is just junk to me. The yards around here do not take them. You can mix them in with dirty steel for 10/cents a pound but that is terrible.

There's a place in Columbus (Ohio) that buys them, but they only pay $.14 a pound.

messymessy wrote:

AGgressive Metal wrote:Does anyone know what to do with non-computer boards? I obviously strip off the electric motors, aluminum heat-sinks, and wires, but there's still a lot of weight there that currently is just junk to me. The yards around here do not take them. You can mix them in with dirty steel for 10/cents a pound but that is terrible.

There's a place in Columbus (Ohio) that buys them, but they only pay $.14 a pound.

Thanks! So close and yet so far

I have not used either of the companies mentioned here. Their prices for boards are good for small companies or individuals, especially if you can sell to them locally. However, I can beat most of their prices on CPUs if anyone here has a decent quantity.

AGgressive Metal wrote:Does anyone know what to do with non-computer boards? I obviously strip off the electric motors, aluminum heat-sinks, and wires, but there's still a lot of weight there that currently is just junk to me. The yards around here do not take them. You can mix them in with dirty steel for 10/cents a pound but that is terrible.

Most brown boards found in TVs, VCRs, and stereos are considered "low grade". Typical e-scrap dealers will pay $0.15/lb for them. I buy them locally for this price but only as a courtesy to help other dealers get rid of them. The best price I've gotten for mine this year was $0.22/lb when copper was at its highest, and I sell several thousand pounds of boards and other e-scrap at a time. Right now I get $0.20/lb.

In theory they should be worth more because of the copper, aluminum, lead, and tin content. However, they're very labor intensive and expensive to deal with because they're bulky and need to be baled to get any weight on a truck. They're also a very energy-intensive material to process.

About the only thing good about low grade boards is they're already such a dirty and low value item that contamination is almost a non-issue.

A place by me is paying .15 a pound for low grade boards. I have not taken any down yet, but will soon...

Big price drops today on both sites... Gold not doing so well today...

Yes, it's a bad day for e-scrap dealers.

Any one know if either of these board buyers pay for amounts under a pound? Example: say I had 10 pounds of motherboards but only 1/2 pound of drive boards.

It would seem the shipping would almost be more than the value of your boards.

silversaddle1 wrote:It would seem the shipping would almost be more than the value of your boards.

Just a bad example on my part. I do have a lot more than 10 lbs. in a couple of categories of boards. I guess what I was asking is will they count the couple of types of boards that I have that are under a pound or am I wasting time on shipping those? E-mailed one of the companies the question, but didn't get a response.

Cash for computer scrap will, not sure on Bd. Sort but think they would as well...

Thanks hobo, cashforcomputerscrap.com was the one I was leaning towards.