Yep. Really depends on what you intend to do with it. From a scrap standpoint you want to be around $1 per laptop. Unless it’s befor 1996 or after 2014, where the equipment values jump for gold pin chips and working parts respectively
Desktops vary. The older it is, or more cards it has, the more you’d offer. I’d drop $20 on a 1985 tower unit but wouldn’t go pas $2 on late 200x dell units. Looks like the laptops have a bunch of power bricks too. So you’ve got a chance of matching things up and having working or fixable units. As for cables; there’s too many different classes to begin to lay out a table of values here. Being a little under Boardsort’s rates by weight is a wise place to be.
From a working (tested) resale position SCSI cables are always worth money. As are floppy drive cables. Couple of dollars each. Original ST and IDE (pre [p]ata IDE) can run double digits easily. If you have actual IDE and not ata cables I’d normally offer $15 each for them and double my investment. Laptop bricks that work run $5+ each. Dell and HP tend to be higher value than most. Sony bricks cost a fortune. And again the older it is the more it’s worth for them.
Most working computers and laptops run in the $20-$50 range on the basic level, but ram and expansion cards quickly drive the value up. Game systems are worth less than a dollar each for scrap. But you can easily sell ANY working game system starting in the $20 range and easily get into the hundreds, on nearly anything, if posted right.
Taking your raw numbers as a starting point condition not known. 1000 laptops-$750 1000 desktops $1000 Misc random stuff $500 $2000-$2500 is a good offer
As a general whatever: If I saw any Atari, commodore, or Texas Instruments stuff, or even one sera Saturn, I’d pad the offer. All of those can quickly add profits since a single Saturn doa is worth $100 easy. C64 and PET units are easy in that realm too, and old Atari systems can be even more.
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