Everybody compares the yard tag to the eBay price and calls the difference profit. That math is wrong. Take out the 13.25 % eBay fee, the shipping, the core charge and Duval County tax, and four of the twelve parts below stop making money.
Yard prices are the running average across both yards. Resale is an estimated range from recent eBay sold listings. Ranking uses the low end, so the board understates rather than oversells. Tap any row for the full arithmetic and a one-click comp check.
Our estimate gets you to a shortlist. This gets you to a decision. Do it standing in the row, before the part comes off the car — it's the difference between a side hustle and an expensive hobby.
Type it the way a seller would title it: 2014 Honda Accord alternator. Not
"alternator Honda" — you'll pull in every model and the numbers go soft.
Every reusable part has a number stamped or stickered on it. Photograph it while the part is still bolted to the car, then search the number alone.
On desktop, scroll the left rail to Show only → Sold items. On the app, tap Filter at the top right, then Sold items.
Asking prices are fiction. Anyone can list an alternator for $300; the question is what someone actually paid. The green sold price is the only number that counts.
Remanufactured and new-aftermarket units sell for two to three times what a yard-pulled part does. Leaving them in the results is the most common way people talk themselves into a bad pull.
eBay shows sold results going back about three months. If most of what you're seeing sits near the far end of that window, treat the number as stale — demand moves with the seasons and with what's been getting wrecked.
The bottom is salvage-for-parts and damaged units. The top is dealers with return policies and warranties you can't match. Take the middle cluster — that's your realistic number.
A $95 sale with free shipping on a 12-pound alternator is really about $73 in the seller's pocket. If the listing shows free shipping, subtract what it would cost you to send it before you compare against anything.
Switch the filter back to all listings and compare the count. Twenty sold against twenty-five listed is a part that moves. Three sold against forty listed is a part that sits in your garage for a year while your money does nothing.
The board is the easy part. The money is in being there the week a donor shows up, before it gets picked over. Tell us what you watch for and we'll email you when it hits a Jacksonville yard.
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These aren't filtered in the interface — a database constraint refuses to write them at all.
The car may already be picked clean. Inventory says the donor is in the row. It doesn't say the alternator is still bolted to it.
Yard prices move. Ours is an average. Tags change, yards run half-price weekends, and GO Pull-It discounts for veterans — all of which beat our number. Photograph the posted price board on your way in.
$/hour assumes you're already there. It counts wrench time, not the drive, not the entry fee, not the twenty minutes finding the row.