Anybody know of a good way to get rid of old PC parts that doesn't involved EBay?
 

I have 4 or 5 cases, mobo's, HDD's, ethernet cards, mice, keyboards, memory...

I basically have all the parts from all the computers I've had over the last few years and I want to sell them, even if it's just for a few bucks.

Heh heh. I put my last case out on the curb. Still have 3 I should get rid of....

You might benefit more (and it's less of a PITA) to donate them to a charity.

My wife suggested giving them to Goodwill. I thought she was crazy... :D

Will Goodwill take pieces/parts, though? Or would I have to put them all together and put an OS on them?

I guess I probably shouldn't put an OS on them, that's technically illegal...

I donated pieces to Purple Heart and they handed me a blank receipt to fill out the value. I don't know about goodwill. I know a few people who have volunteered for charity organizations repairing and assembling old computers. The parts come from somewhere....

Goodwill won't take old computers. At least the one in Belton wouldn't.

Anandtech.com
it has a For Sale For Trade forum

One of the reasons I don't want to hassle with ebay is shipping...

Goodwill... they'll give you a blank receipt. Good for tax purposes if you itemize ;)

As for OS, I typically load a copy of College Linux (freeware).

What kind of stuff will they take?

This stuff is fairly old/outdated. The best of the mobo's is a PII-300.

I donated an old PII and they didn't complain. Most of the time it's just a kid working the donations bay.

OK, last question.

Do you think I should spend the time to ASSEMBLE the systems?

Rebecca: Excuse me, I'm Rebecca Demore from the homeless shelter.

Elaine: Oh, hi.

Rebecca: Are you the ones leaveing the muffin pieces behind our shelter?

Elaine: You been enjoying them?

Rebecca: They're just stumps.

Elaine: Well they're perfectly edible.

Rebecca: Oh, so you just assume that the homeless will eat them, they'll eat anything?

Mr. Lippman: No no, we just thought...

Rebecca: I know what you thought. They don't have homes, they don't have jobs, what do they need the top of a muffin for? They're lucky to get the stumps.

Elaine: If the homeless don't like them the homeless don't have to eat them.

Rebecca: The homeless don't like them.

Elaine: Fine.

Rebecca: We've never gotten so many complaints. Every two minutes, "Where is the top of this muffin? Who ate the rest of this?"

Elaine: We were just trying to help.

Rebecca: Why don't you just drop off some chicken skins and lobster shells?!

Yeah, i'd assemble the system and make sure its in working condition. :D

Screw it. They're going in the garbage.

Parker, if you have a hard drive, I will take it. That is all I need to finish putting together a PC for my mom.

I was going to buy one this coming weekend, but what the hell.

I'm going to build a couple of full systems for my neighbor kid and the wife's cousin.

After that, I'll PM you with what I have left.

I'll take all the memory you have left,(if it's cheap) I work on old PC's all the time.

I'll give it to you if I have any left.

Do you have any 386 CPU's?

No, but I have Pentium 90 if you want it. :D

Heh, I was rummaging through my old parts box the other day and stumbled across a Cyrix CPU. lol, what a POS.

Heh. I still have a couple of Celeron 366A's. Those sonsabitches overclocked like nothing else. I had an Abit BP6 motherboard (dual socket 370), stuck 2 of those in, and they would OC to 605 each. That was badass, back in the day.

Yeah, I had my P90 overclocked to 166 at one point...

That's OK. I was just going ask you why the hell you had them and tell you to throw them away.

Computer Renaissance in Des Moines may buy old parts. They buy old computers. I doub't you'll get much, but it may be better than nothing.

I thought about that, but it's kind of a hassle and those guys aren't real reputable...

Heh.

Threads like these remind me that regardless of how geeky I get in my particular field...