ITAD CPU buyback for UK decommission and refresh teams.

If you're running an ITAD operation, you already have a value-recovery channel for whole laptops and desktops, and a recycling channel for the leftover chassis and boards. The middle layer — the working CPUs, RAM, SSDs, and NVMe pulled during sanitisation — usually goes into the recycling stream by default, which means you're recovering scrap-metal value on parts worth 50–100× more on the secondary refurb market.

ChipFlip exists to take that middle layer. We slot in after your data sanitisation step (or we handle the wipe ourselves on storage drives — your call) and before the recycling smelter. You get a paid revenue stream for components that were previously cost-of-business; we get clean tested-working stock for the refurb supply chain. Through our parent Pyco Renew Ltd we resell into UK and EU B2B refurb buyers — that's why we can pay component value, not metal value.

For end-clients you serve (corporate IT, local authorities, education sector), being able to demonstrate a documented value-recovery path on working IT components also strengthens the ITAD value proposition vs competitors who only quote scrap recycling rates.

The same component classes as our standard buyback, with a bias toward what shows up most in office refresh and data-centre decommission streams:

• Consumer CPUs — Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 / i9 (3rd–14th gen). £7–£109 per chip Grade A on the fixed list. Consumer AMD Ryzen / Threadripper desktop not on the list.
• Server CPUs — Xeon Scalable, Xeon E-series, AMD EPYC from modern servers. Quoted on receipt, no fixed list price — WhatsApp a generation/count breakdown for an indicative range. Xeon flow →
• Consumer DDR — DDR4 and DDR5 UDIMM (8GB sticks and up). Per-stick fixed pricing up to £93 for 128GB.
• Server RAM — ECC RDIMM / LRDIMM from modern servers. Quoted on receipt, same flow as server CPUs. ECC server RAM flow →
• Storage — NVMe (M.2, U.2), 2.5" SATA SSDs, 128GB+. Per-GB pricing at £0.014
• Mixed batches welcome — no need to sort by component type. We sort and grade on receipt

What we don't buy: motherboards, GPUs, mechanical HDDs, DDR2 / DDR3 RAM, PSUs, cases, chassis. If your batch contains those, we route them through our sister WEEE channel at no charge — they just don't pay per-part.

For ITAD providers handling end-client data sanitisation, here's what happens to drives in our flow:

• Wipe before any test or resale. Every SSD and NVMe goes through a multi-pass cryptographic erase across the full address space on receipt — before our bench-test step, before any resale prep.
• Drives that can't be wiped are physically destroyed. Bent connectors, corrupted firmware, dead controllers — these get crushed and shredded; we don't attempt data recovery for any reason.
• Per-batch wipe record. Attached to your batch report — serial numbers, wipe completion timestamps, destruction notes for any units that failed wipe verification. Useful for your end-client ITAD reporting.
• We don't read, copy, or examine any data on incoming drives. Drives are wiped before they're read at all.
• If you'd prefer to wipe yourself first, send pre-wiped — we'll skip our wipe step and just bench-test. Either way works.

For more detail see the Secure Disposal Statement.

Realistic ITAD output from a 200-desk corporate refresh — say a financial-services or law-firm office cycling out 4-year-old kit:

• ~200 desktop CPUs, mostly i5/i7 8th–10th gen — Grade A average £35 → £7,000
• ~400 sticks of DDR4 RAM (mostly 16GB and 32GB) — average £6 per stick → £2,400
• ~200 SSDs (256GB and 512GB) and ~50 NVMe drives (1TB) — average £6 per unit → £1,500

Total Grade A buyback: ~£10,900. Less typical regrade headroom (~10% downgrade), realistic net ≈ £9,800.

Same components routed to a per-tonne metal recycler: low triple-figure £. The buyback channel exists because the gap is enormous, and ITAD providers who demonstrate they capture it become the obvious choice for repeat corporate accounts that care about value-recovery rates.

For a single batch you want to ship now, head to the live quote tool — tap + on each chip type, see the running total, lock when you're ready. Fixed 7-day quote and the postal address by email.

Related: see the bulk & trade overview for general trade pricing, the scrap CPU buyer breakdown if you're explaining the per-part-vs-per-kg argument internally, or selling pulled CPUs for ad-hoc small-batch flow.