The brother of one of my old friends tasked me to liquidate 14 years worth of IT equipment for his company. The range of IT equipment ranged from network appliances, monitors, laptops, cables, adapters, etc. I used Craig’s List, OfferUp, eBay, and Amazon marketplace to offload the items.
Some notable items that were given to liquidate are of the following:
- 14 years of of various Dell UltraSharp Monitors (4 units had varying degrees of damage from screens with dead pixels to cracked)
- 2011 MacBook Pro with noticeable scuffs and scratches on on chasis
- Late 2013 MacBook Pro with a severely damaged display panel and liquid damage on PCB
- Apple aluminum wireless keyboards (1 unit had exploded batteries)
- Lacie NAS boxes that were 8-10 years old
- Apple 27″ Thunderbolt display with a severely damaged Thunderbolt cable causing screen flickering
Repairing that Apple 27″ TB Display with the severely damaged TB cable/screen flickering problems was the most challenging task out of all the items sold; there were paper-thin ribbon cables connecting the display panel to the logic boards and those cables only stretched to around 4-inches when I was removing the display panel from the logic boards and aluminum chassis. Apple really intentionally designed the item to be anti-repair since they could have made the TB cable modular externally. Internally, I was literally reconnecting a TB cable from the replacement TB cable assembly. Overall, I was sweating bullets in making sure I didn’t rip out/damage those ribbon cables during the repair haha.
The most challenging item for me to ship was a Lenovo ThinkServer that was about 2-ft in length; I had to make a custom cardboard box and use lots of old newspaper as packaging material … it was janky to say the least.
