ASSET
COMPARISON
Wholesale ITAD vs. Cirkadis
RESULT
+$98.70 to the customer
The hidden cost of a 30-day settlement
Most ITAD vendors are contractually obligated to settle takeout transactions within 30 days — a window too short to actually retail the equipment. To meet the deadline, they fall back on a wholesale buyout pegged at roughly 50% of fair market value. On a Dell 7080 SFF with a $280 FMV, that means a $140 sale price, then split 70/30 with the customer. The end user walks away with $98, and the real value of the working CPU, RAM, and SSD inside the chassis never gets recovered.
What component-level recovery looks like
Cirkadis values the same machine by what’s actually inside it. The i7-10700 alone returns $142 on the secondary market; add $92 for the RAM, $33 for the SSD, $34 for the barebone chassis, and $10 for the GPU, then net out $30 in labor and processing. The gross settlement comes to $281 — and after the same 70/30 split, the customer receives $196.70. That’s $98.70 more, or 50.2% additional value, on a single unit. Multiply that across a fleet refresh and the gap between “fast wholesale” and “actual worth” becomes the entire business case.
