Materials
Most e-scrap buyers pay the same rate for everything. We don't. Older military, industrial, and telecom electronics carry far more precious metal content than modern consumer gear, and we price to reflect that. If you're sitting on legacy equipment that a standard recycler would lowball, that's exactly who we're looking for.
The Material
The e-scrap market has a grade problem. Most buyers price everything by the pound at a flat rate regardless of what's actually in it. That works fine for consumer electronics. It means you're leaving real money on the table if you have older industrial, military, or telecom equipment with significantly higher precious metal content per pound.
Gold is the primary precious metal in e-scrap. It appears on connector contacts, edge fingers, bonding wire in processors, and in solder on older boards. Pre-2000 industrial and military boards were built to specs that required heavy gold plating on contact surfaces. Modern boards have been engineered to minimize it. The difference in value per pound can be substantial.
Palladium is the one most buyers miss entirely. Older ceramic capacitors, common on military and industrial boards from the 1980s and 1990s, contain meaningful palladium content. A flat-rate e-scrap buyer prices those boards the same as anything else. We don't.
Silver and copper run throughout most electronic assemblies. Silver in contacts and certain solders, copper in traces, wire, and bus assemblies. Both are recovered and priced accordingly in any load we assess.
If you're decommissioning a facility, clearing out surplus inventory, or handling an estate with legacy industrial equipment, call us before you hand it to a general recycler.
Pricing Factors
What We Accept
We focus on higher-grade industrial and commercial electronics. If you're not sure whether what you have qualifies, send a photo or give us a description. We'll tell you straight.
Military, aerospace, telecom, and older industrial PCBs. Higher precious metal content per pound than consumer boards. All generations, all conditions.
Ceramic and gold-lidded processors from older industrial and server equipment. Ceramic CPUs from pre-2000 industrial systems are particularly valuable.
Older server and industrial RAM modules with gold contacts. Value varies significantly by generation. Pre-2000 modules typically price better.
Edge connectors, card connectors, and gold-plated connector assemblies pulled from decommissioned equipment. High gold content per pound.
Older telephone switching equipment, telecom boards, and network hardware. Often contains high-grade boards with significant precious metal content.
Full facility decommissions and large equipment clearouts. We assess the full load, price by grade, and handle the pickup in one trip.
In The Field
High-value e-scrap often doesn't look different from low-value material to the untrained eye. Send us a photo and we'll grade it for you.
The Supply Chain
We use verified, responsible downstream handlers only.
Why Liberty
Most e-scrap buyers treat everything the same. Grade-blind buying means you get commodity prices on high-grade material. We price the grade, not the category.
We know the difference between military-grade boards from the 1980s and modern consumer PCBs. You get paid accordingly, not lumped into a single per-pound rate.
Older ceramic capacitors contain palladium that most buyers overlook entirely. We identify and price palladium-bearing components separately.
Every deal settled at time of collection on assessed material. No waiting on downstream refinery returns for standard graded lots.
From a single box of boards to a full facility decommission. We handle the logistics, do the grading on site, and settle in one transaction.
Before you hand it to a general recycler, send us a photo or a description. If it's worth more than commodity rate, we'll tell you and we'll pay accordingly.