I have found a locker with a couple cases of a trade dvd.  The cases are nice and I might be able to sell them in bulk.  I was wondering if anyone knows if DVDs can be scraped?

lol I guess it always pays to actually read the story

That's an amazing find and good for the buyer to recognize she found something truly valuable.  This is a case of everyone wins.  The family gets a piece of Buck back that they never knew existed and the buyer hopefully gets a good reward for the find.  The world gets a great novel. 

I did some research and it was a Imatron machine built in 1999.  Unfortunately the company was bought out by GE and the technology was shelved.  After going through a couple of cat scan specialist around the country I decided to scrap.  I did dig through it and found some great parts that I can sell via ebay.  I found a Cryo-Torr high vacuum pump worth around $2k and Ambu Mark III resuscitator worth $100 just to name a couple of things. 
I called a company called DFW recyclers and they came out and picked up everything.  I only got 15 cents a pound but in was 9000 pounds so made $1350.  A clean $1000 profit for not a ton of work. Plus if I can sell the stuff on Ebay maybe clear another $1.5 - 2k.  Not a bad investment for $250. 

I am back from a short hiatus overseas for a job.  Today I bought the oddest unit ever for $200.  Actually it was 2 units.

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Hopefully you guys can see it.  I will go back tomorrow to move some things so that we can see the equipment better and will post more pics.  I know I can make some decent money just from the scrap.  The is a huge piece of copper as well as tons of aluminum. 

Most of the regulars usually have around 2000 for what I have observed.  There are a couple of casual buyers that count as regulars and they usually carry around 500-800.

Yet they have succeded for three decades or more, and granted the tech world wasn't ready for them during 20 or so of those years, but the internet has been around since the late 90s in pretty good strength and yet no-one jumped on the idea.

The internet has been around since the 90s and Facebook started in 2004.  Last year Facebook mobile ads did more than all of Yahoo combined.  There is still plenty of room for growth. 
Every facility manager I have talked to love online auctions fees and all.  The buyers are not as happy and watching what the units sell for I understand. 
Here is the caveat, when there are a lot of units up for auction online the prices become more reasonable so as the industry grows it will balance out. 
I love online auctions bad pictures and all because deep down I am a capitalist.  It will get better.  Pictures will get better.  More units will go up and most of the kinks will work itself out. 
Online Auctions new pictures are great much better than SBs.  That will make SBs better if they want to compete.  Its how America works we keep getting better.
Live auctions will not go out of business but there will be more and more online auctions in the future.
But I bet Barnes and Nobles never thought they would be dinosaurs so soon. Best Buy is in danger of the same fate. The times they are a changing.