How to make money from something that is broken.

I am always looking for a way to make a bit of extra cash as i think we all are now a days, it comes in handy for things like holidays and paying for kids trips and extra lessons like swimming.

So I wanted to share with you guy how I make a bit of extra cash a way from steemit.

If you have read my older posts back 6 months ago you will find that i am a massive car boot fan. but sometimes you just don't make the money you need.

A few years back I got into computer repair it is something that i was good at and now later down the line I still use but in a different way.

I call it free money.
I have friends who work in the business still to this day, and they help me by giving me broken computers, laptops and mobile phones.

This is were I make my money, I don't sell them whole but strip them down as there is more money in the parts than in the whole computer its self.

So lets brake down the cost of a laptop.

This laptop has a fault and to get it repaired would cost £100 for parts and labour, the customer who brought it into the shop decided to buy a new one leaving this one to find a good home. (me)

The laptop in its whole state right now is worth about £30 to £40.
but there is more money to be made than just this. everything is worth something on the machine and I'll show you.

The back covers such as the Ram and HDD go missing more often than not and these will fetch £5 each or I could sell both for £7.50

The HDD caddy is another thing that goes missing, this can fetch me £5

then lets go further in to the machine.

The hinges are worth £5 each, these are the most common thing I sell and I love to get a machine that has good strong hinges as they will get me £15

so already I am up to £30 just for 4 items from the machine.

So after the first 4 items I start making more money. the possessor above I can get anything from £5 to £10 sometimes more depending on make and speed of it.

The back casing is a great thing to sell, people always drop there laptops and brake these, if you can get one that is in perfect condition you can ask for £20 for it.
This one has a mark or two but is in tact and I will probably sell this for about £15

The palm rest with built in touch pad and buttons is another £10. these things go like hot cakes in a bakery

The screen bezel is another common seller and will sell for about £10. these I normally sell to computer repair shops and its a funny story.
So you take your laptop in with a smashed screen and the guy goes I can fix that, as the repair man is taking the screen out and gives it a good pull these things crack and break, and that is why I sell these.

Also inside the machine there are other things that you can sell that i don't bother.
The heat sink is copper and alloy so I pop these in a tub to save to weigh in later,
the broken screen has a gold connectors on the back and these get saved for later. -bit of gold recovery.

the motherboard you can sell as faulty and get £15 for but I don't see the point in that as why would you want to sell something faulty to some one, its just going to go into the bin. so this also goes for metal recovery too. there are a lot of things on there that can be saved.

So in total just for the few Items I will be selling I will make about £75 for a machine sold complete that I would get £30 for.

I recycle either by reselling or recovery and 90% does not go to a landfill which I think is good going. I am making money and saving the environment.

keep Steeming guys

and until next time

I am @artonmysleeve