Sell pulled CPUs in the UK — fixed price per chip, paid after testing.

If you're stripping motherboards as part of an e-waste, ITAD, or refurb operation, you're already collecting pulled CPUs by the bag-load. Most yards drop them in a bucket bound for the smelter or the per-tonne weighbridge — and lose 50–100× the value the chips would fetch as working components on the secondary market.

ChipFlip exists to take those bags. We test, grade, refurbish via our parent Pyco Renew Ltd, and resell into the UK and EU B2B refurb supply chain. The chips that boot, we pay you per part. The chips that don't, we return at our cost or route through our WEEE channel — your call. You don't carry any test or refurb risk on our end.

If you're new to the per-part economics, see the scrap CPU buyer breakdown for the kg-vs-part math. This page is for sellers who've already pulled the lot and just need a buyer.

You don't need to sort your pulled chips by generation, socket, or brand before sending. Here's why: at the volume we process, sorting is cheap for us — we have benches set up to triage 200 chips an hour. For you, sorting is dead time you could be spending pulling more boards.

Send a mixed sack, a shipping box, a tray of trays — whatever shape your batch is in. We'll grade per-chip and pay per-chip. The only thing we ask: protect the chips properly so the pin grids don't bend in transit. A bent pin grid drops a £109 i9 to Grade B (£87) or Grade X (zero). Bubble-wrap each chip if you can, or stack in anti-static foam.

The single biggest reason pulled chips arrive regraded is bent pins or thermal-paste residue. Both are easy to avoid:

• Bubble-wrap each chip individually, then jiffy-bag bundles of 5–10. A loose chip rattling in a box is a chip with bent pins on arrival.
• Anti-static foam beats bubble wrap if you have it from the original board pulls. ESD damage on intact pin-grids is rare but not zero.
• Don't tape directly to the chip surface. Adhesive residue on the integrated heat spreader counts as a cosmetic flaw and drops Grade A to Grade B (10–20% off list).
• If thermal paste is still attached, leave it. Trying to scrape it can damage the IHS. We clean it on receipt — adds zero to processing time.
• Use a sturdy box, not a padded envelope, for batches over 30 chips. Royal Mail's small parcel limit fits ~50 CPUs comfortably with proper packaging.

For more detail see the how it works guide, which covers the full inbound process including the photo-ID requirement on first sale (UK Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 — one-time check, then on file).

Realistic mix from a small UK strip-out operation pulling boards for ~3 weeks:

• ~80 i7 chips (mixed 8th–13th gen) — Grade A average £45 → £3,600
• ~70 i5 chips (mixed 8th–13th gen) — Grade A average £18 → £1,260
• ~30 i3 chips — Grade A average £6 → £180
• ~5 dead/bent-pin units — Grade X, returned at our cost or routed through our WEEE channel

Total Grade A buyback on this batch: ~£5,040. Same chips at scrap weighbridge (~3kg total): £2.40. Even if a third of the batch downgrades to Grade B (which would be unusually bad packaging), you still net £3,800+.

Typical process: bench-test on receipt, per-line grading report within 1–2 business days, Faster Payments after you accept the report.

If you'd rather price your batch yourself first, head to the live quote tool — tap + on each chip type, see the running total, lock when you're ready. You'll get a 7-day fixed quote and the postal address by email instantly.

For sustained pull-rates (weekly/monthly), see the trade & B2B page on volume uplifts and accounts. Or read the scrap CPU buyer breakdown if you want the full kg-vs-part economic argument to walk a partner through.