The buy list

What we buy, and what it's worth bothering with.

Rough guide, not a price list — condition, generation and quantity move numbers too much for a static table to be honest. Send specifics and you get real ones.

01 · Apple

Apple devices

The strongest resale of anything we handle. Apple gear holds value years past the point where a comparable PC is worth its weight in parts, so it's almost always worth quoting before it gets scrapped.

Mac

  • MacBook Air — Intel & Apple silicon
  • MacBook Pro — all sizes
  • iMac & iMac Pro
  • Mac mini, Mac Studio
  • Mac Pro — tower & rack

iPad & iPhone

  • iPad, Air, Pro, mini
  • Education fleets, any size
  • iPhone — unlocked or carrier
  • Apple Watch in volume
  • Cracked & non-booting, priced as parts
Activation lock is the one thing that kills value. A Mac or iPad still tied to an MDM or an Apple ID is worth a fraction of an unlocked one. If devices are still enrolled, release them in your MDM before pickup — that single step is often the difference between a parts price and a working-unit price.

02 · Endpoints

Laptops & desktops

Business-class machines are the sweet spot. Consumer gear works in volume but rarely one at a time. Anything 8th-gen Intel / Ryzen 2000 or newer has a real market.

Laptops

  • Dell Latitude, Precision, XPS
  • HP EliteBook, ProBook, ZBook
  • Lenovo ThinkPad T / X / P series
  • Microsoft Surface Pro & Laptop
  • Chromebooks — volume only

Desktops & workstations

  • OptiPlex, EliteDesk, ThinkCentre
  • SFF, micro & tower form factors
  • Precision & ZBook workstations
  • All-in-ones
  • GPUs, pulled or installed

03 · Rack

Servers & rack gear

Whole chassis, stripped shells, or a populated rack exactly as it stands. If a decom is happening, talk to us before it's broken down — a configured server is usually worth more intact than the sum of the parts pulled carelessly.

Compute

  • Dell PowerEdge R / C series
  • HPE ProLiant DL & ML
  • Lenovo ThinkSystem
  • Supermicro & whitebox
  • Blade chassis & blades

Storage & network

  • Disk shelves, JBODs, SANs
  • NetApp, EMC, Nimble trays
  • Cisco, Aruba, Juniper switches
  • Firewalls — Fortinet, Palo Alto, SonicWall
  • PDUs, rails, rack accessories

04 · Components

Memory & drives

The core of the business, and the highest value per pound of anything on this page. If you're scrapping chassis, pulling the DIMMs and drives first is almost always worth the twenty minutes.

Memory

  • DDR4 & DDR5 RDIMM
  • LRDIMM, 32GB / 64GB / 128GB
  • Server memory kits, matched
  • SODIMM in volume
  • DDR3 ECC — volume only

Drives

  • NVMe U.2, U.3, M.2
  • Enterprise SAS & SATA SSD
  • Nearline SAS HDD, 4TB and up
  • Caddies, trays & interposers
  • HBAs & RAID controllers

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What we decline.

Not a judgment on the gear — just things where we can't pay enough to make the handling worth it for either of us.

Hard no

  • CRT monitors and televisions
  • Printers, copiers, MFPs
  • Consumer appliances & white goods
  • Loose cable, scrap metal, e-waste by weight
  • Anything that needs a licensed recycler to dispose of

Usually not worth it

  • Single broken consumer laptops
  • Pre-8th-gen Intel desktops in small numbers
  • DDR2 and older memory
  • Sub-1TB spinning drives
  • LCD monitors under 24″ outside a larger lot
In a mixed lot, most of this stops mattering. If the pallet is 80% good gear and 20% things on this list, we'll usually take the whole pallet so you're not sorting it. Ask.

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Not sure what you've got?

That's the normal case. A photo of the pallet and a rough count is enough for us to tell you whether it's worth moving.