How and Where to Sell Old Electrical Equipment
Everybody ends up with an occasional piece of electrical equipment to get rid of. It may show up during spring cleaning or after purchasing a newer piece of technology.
It might even show up during an estate liquidation. Whatever the case, many such items are too good to throw away but not good enough to keep.
Since they usually retain at least some value, it can be worthwhile to sell them. The question is who would want to buy it, and for what?
Repair Technicians
Most old electrical equipment represents discontinued product lines. Your item may be of no use to you because it doesn’t work and you can’t find parts.
There may be someone else out there in the same situation, seeking a different part.
Repair shops specialize in making connections between those two situations.
They find one owner who wants to sell an item and another hoping to repair the same item, and they “part out” the first one to get the second one going again.
Recyclers
Most older electronics are full of recyclable materials. The most common such content is copper.
Anything electrical typically has plenty of copper wire and various copper contacts in it, so many scrap dealers will pay you for junk electrical equipment so that they can harvest the copper from it, along with aluminum and even small quantities of gold and platinum, for recycling.
Collectors
Anything old has the potential to hold value for a collector somewhere.
Typically, such items need to be operational or at least to look good enough for display.
If all you have done is to replace a working item with a more modern unit, such as an appliance or TV, there is a possibility that someone would be interested in buying the old one for decoration or some other display use.
The Open Market
Finally, some things can simply be sold through online auctions. The minimal effort and cost of liquidating in this fashion makes it very appealing when you would otherwise simply be throwing it away.
Generally speaking, it costs nothing to try to sell electrical equipment, so anything you get for it is a positive outcome.
Just be sure to consider the cost of shipping heavy, fragile items. Requiring local pickup might be best.
We all find ourselves with items that are outdated or nonfunctional.
While it is possible simply to put them in the trash (depending on local guidelines), you can recover some money and help the environment by seeking buyers like these to put your item to good use.
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