Its been ten years since the first cash for laptops company was set up on line, and as with mobile phone recycling, its incredibly easy to generate a little bit of cash by using online laptop recyclers such as gazelle.com who will send you a no cost mailer allowing you to send your laptop in at no charge.
Expect a check in days.
Before we talk about scaling this up be sure to either remover the hard drive or wipe it clean. Better safe than sorry – your hard drive could contain thousands of personal info such as the obvious bank details and photos to your web visiting habits.
To scale up from disposing of just your own equipment is a bit more challenging than mobile phones but potentially more lucrative because more people are willing to have a go at either repairing themselves or breaking then up for parts and selling on eBay etc.
There are two ways to go:
- become a facilitator and offer to recycle for a profit share for your friends, work colleagues and relatives. When you’re happy with this you could scale up to offer the service to schools, churches etc. on a cash share basis. Getting these contacts is key to building a big business in the future and should be done alongside such services as mobile phone and possible other consumer electronics such as old digital cameras.
- If you’re techy and hands on (or know someone who is) you could consider repairing and reselling or breaking for parts on sites such as eBay. A significant uplift in profits is possible but it does involve more work and more knowledge.
When you coindser the average laptop user upgrades every 2-4 years and laptops are even being bundled with cell phones, you’ll never go short of new material. The key thing is get started, try out yourself and scale up from there. It’s without doubt a huge and and growing market, so get the first mover advantage and get started today.
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