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rdw1121, since you don't have an I Pad to strip to weigh the boards, lets do a little mental stripping game that might be close. Suppose you are at an auction, and a lot comes up with oh, lets say, 48 Ipad 4, 97 Ipad 3, 15 Ipad 2. You don't know anything about them except Boardsort buys them, or the boards in them. Should you bid? How much should you pay, and how much return should you expect. Right now, all you know is there are about 160 units. So lets play a little guessing game. A guess too high in one place will counterbalance a guess too low in another spot, so everything will eventually even out and your final figure should be close to actual results using exact quantities. There is a mixed lot of 160 units, which we guess weighs 1.5 pounds each (actually checked this...just slightly under one and a half pounds) So, weight wise, there is 240 pounds. Across the shred/tin scales at your local yard, that would only be $9.60, , or about six cents per unit, so not worth the trouble of bidding. (Actually, your yard probably would refuse them as glass and plastic instead of metal, unless thrown in a few at a time in mixed loads of scrap appliances, etc.)' However, you know that Boardsort buys both whole units now, as well as the boards, so lets do those figures. 240 pounds at 25 cents per pound nets you about 38 cents per unit, or $60 bucks for the whole lot, as is, not broken down. Now you can afford to pay a little, if you don't have high shipping or delivery expenses. (My method is to save the mid and low grade boards, power supplies until I am delivering a decent load of good boards ($1,000 or more) then haul the low payng items in, as they will basically cover my travel expenses) But since shipping a pallet that is only going to return $60 is probably not feasible so lets mentally strip the units, at least of the main boards. ' I have never stripped an Ipad, but from the pictures, it looks like it would only weigh a few ounces. My rough guess is that it would take about 12 to make a pound, but I really want this lot, so I am going to lie to myself and claim only 8 boards are needed to make a pound. 8 boards to make a pound, you have 160 pounds, so 160 divided by 8 boards equals 20 pounds. Twenty pounds times $4.00 per pound equals $80 dollars....or about 50 cents per unit. Now you can make a little money above shipping costs, if the initial price and labor costs aren't much. For now lets ignore the cell class board and anything else that might be sellable, as I have no buyers for plastic and screens. So how much should you pay? As little as possible, and it also depends on how fast you can dismantle a unit. If it takes you ten minutes per unit, you will have spent 3 days for 80 bucks, minus whatever the initial cost. I would bid on these but probably wouldn't go higher than 15 or twenty per lot given my lack of actual knowledge, and I have wasted more than that on things that profited me neither money or knowledge. I expect that a small repair shop is also watching this lot, and knowing he/she can find some usable replacement parts will outbid you. If two geeks are eyeing the lot, I would expect the bidding to top $150 for the lot. Later, I will research to find the actual weight of the boards in an iPad just to compare how close my guesses are. If anyone knows, and wishes to comment or correct my estimated values, feel free to do so.
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