What's the price impact of e-waste that includes cables and chargers mixed in with the main devices?
Short answer: Cables and chargers generally add some value since they contain copper wire, but mixing large volumes of loose cable in with your main devices without any sorting can make a load harder for a buyer to assess quickly — a reasonable middle ground is including chargers and cables that belong to the devices you're selling, while keeping a large separate pile of loose cables as its own listing.
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List Free →Why cables have their own value
Cables and chargers contain copper wire, sometimes at a meaningful concentration relative to their weight in plastic housing, so they’re not worthless additions — they’re a genuine, if modest, contributor to a load’s total value, separate from the devices themselves.
Why mixing large volumes can hurt assessment
A pile of devices tangled together with a large mass of loose, unsorted cables takes longer for a buyer to visually assess and can obscure what’s actually in the load — this uncertainty sometimes leads to more conservative pricing than if the cable volume were clearly separated and quantified.
The practical approach
Keep chargers and cables that clearly belong to specific devices attached to them when selling those devices, since that’s a normal, expected pairing. If you have a larger separate accumulation of loose cables beyond that, listing it as its own bulk cable lot generally gets assessed and priced more accurately.
How ScrapTrade Makes This Easier
Listing a large separate cable accumulation as its own “bulk mixed cables” item on ScrapTrade, apart from your main device listing, usually gets a clearer, more specific quote than one combined mystery lot.
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