Dave,
In my experience, whole or partial laptops aren't worth it unless you plan on showing up in person. USPS flat rate boxes aren't practical for these, and UPS charges roughly .80-1.00 per pound to send stuff to Ohio (at least for me here in NY), so at .95/lb for the partial laptops, you're wasting your time sending these at all. If you can get them cheap enough, and you plan on showing up in person, or stripping them entirely for their individual MB's,RAM, batteries, etc.. I wouldn't mess around with these. I get them for free on a weekly basis and they are the biggest nuisance out of all the material that I get. They can be more profitable if they are newer and the LCD's are in demand (which you can sell) or the motherboards work (if you can verify it). If not, you're looking at boat anchors with light large socket motherboards, a single piece of ram (usually), a battery and if you're lucky, some type of copper/aluminum heatsink. The rest is plastic, (unless you're into silver mylar refining) and a handful of other recyclable, non-profitable material. Of course, the most profitable route here would be to fix/refurbish them if they were new enough, and attempt to re-sell them as working. As scrap, I wouldn't pay more than $1.00 each. I hesitate to even take them for free sometimes.
With that said, I think your reasoning is sound. Get them for no more than $2.00 each (if they weigh say 5 pounds as a partial unit, then youre looking at $4.75) and stuff a couple hundred pounds in your load the next time you go to boardsort to supplement your load.
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