Friday, November 28, 2014

Electronic Scrap

If you save all of your old junk, chances are you have some computers and other electronics sitting around that no longer function properly. There are components inside of these electronics that are worth some money. A lot of the parts in computers have some value even when they no longer work. They have parts that are coated in precious metals like copper, aluminum, and sometimes even gold. If you take a day to take all of the boards out of the old equipment, you can box it up and ship it out to different companies that will pay you for the scrap.

Different companies pay in different ways. Some even pay for shipping so that you don't have to incur the extra cost of shipping 50+ lbs of electronic scrap. Some companies pay by the weight of the different component categories you send in in total before taking the precious metals off of the scrap ($0.70 / lb hard drives). Some will pay you based off of the current price of what they can salvage from the things you send in. It takes a hefty amount of any recycled goods to make a lot of money from them, but every little bit counts. Maybe you have a computer repair business on the side or a collection of busted printers. All of those can be taken apart to get the components that the companies will take.

Here are a couple of those companies. There may even be some local to you that you can just drop stuff off to.

Cash For Electronic Scrap USA

Cash For Computer Scrap

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