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What is ITAD? (And why you're paying to throw away assets)
IT asset disposition explained in 90 seconds: the four jobs of ITAD (wipe the data, recover the value, recycle the rest, prove all three), why disposal-first vendors charge you for hardware that still has resale value, what wiping to the NIST 800-88 Purge standard actually means, and why a certificate per device beats a batch letter.
Key takeaways
- ITAD has four jobs, wipe the data, recover the value, recycle the rest, and prove all three. Most vendors skip the one that pays you.
- Disposal-first vendors charge for pickup and keep the resale value. That's reasonable for dead monitors and expensive for a working fleet.
- Every device is wiped completely, company data, customer records and employee information, to the NIST 800-88 Purge standard. A factory reset is not data destruction.
- You get a signed certificate for every device with serial number, method and date, not one batch letter for a whole pallet.
- We collect (free pickup in DFW, free freight nationwide), test everything, wipe everything, and send one payment per batch the same day inspection finishes.
- No pickup fee, no per-device fee, no minimum.
Full transcript
0:00Every quarter, you pay someone to haul away your old laptops and phones. Here's what nobody tells you: most of that hardware is still worth real money.
0:08That's what ITAD is supposed to be. IT asset disposition. Four jobs: wipe the data, recover the value, recycle the rest, and prove all three. Most vendors skip the one that pays you.
0:20Because hauling is their business. They charge you for the pickup, then resell your hardware and keep the difference. For a pallet of dead monitors, fair enough. For a fleet of three-year-old iPhones, you just gave away a budget line.
0:33So here's how we work instead. Every device gets wiped. Completely. Your company data. Your customer records. Your employees' personal information. All of it, gone, to the NIST standard called Purge. Not a factory reset.
0:49And you get a signed certificate for every device. Serial number, method, date. Not one letter for a whole pallet. One per device. That's the artifact your auditor asks for.
1:00The rest is meant to be easy. We collect everything. Free pickup here in Dallas-Fort Worth, free freight anywhere else in the country. We test every device, we wipe every device, and then we send you a payment. One payment per batch, the same day we finish, with a line-by-line report so finance can reconcile it.
1:19No pickup fee. No per-device fee. No minimum. You send us the list, we handle the rest. And we send back a number, instead of an invoice.
What are you retiring?
Send the model list and rough counts. You'll get a valuation, a collection window and your certificate package, with no disposal fee.
ITAD services · Certified data destruction · IT asset recovery · IT equipment disposal
The most cash
Beat carrier credits and kiosks. Real money, not 24-month bill credits.
Paid the same day
Free prepaid label, FedEx drop-off, and payout the day we inspect.
Your data, erased
Certified NIST 800-88 wipe with a free Certificate of Data Erasure.
Good for the planet
Every device reused or responsibly recycled. ~58kg CO₂ saved per phone.