gold ram

I look at it this way. As long as gold doesnt drop to the price of shred it will always be worth tearing apart computers for the boards. If my refiner calculations are correct gold would have to drop to $400 to not make a cent of profit on most boards now in the $3 range. Now might be the time to hoard your ram if you can afford to do it. If interest rates start climbing who knows what could happen. Heck gold is trending with the stock market right now and that usually isnt the case. SO who knows whats going to happen in the next few weeks.

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

I look at it this way. As long as gold doesnt drop to the price of shred it will always be worth tearing apart computers for the boards. If my refiner calculations are correct gold would have to drop to $400 to not make a cent of profit on most boards now in the $3 range. Now might be the time to hoard your ram if you can afford to do it. If interest rates start climbing who knows what could happen. Heck gold is trending with the stock market right now and that usually isnt the case. SO who knows whats going to happen in the next few weeks.

I am only clearing $1.90 pound on green motherboards right now after costs are figured in. So its already pretty bad. If we see gold drop below $1000 and stay there for a long period of time lot of these ewaste buyers will get shut down.

shipping is roughly $1 pound and going up, that narrows alot of escrap out of the picture, plus if gold goes way down boards like motherboards and finger cards will not be worth shipping, by the end of next year we could be looking at $1.50 pound shipping costs and $2 pound for green motherboards/finger cards, green motherboards are at $2.90 right now. At that point only cpus and ram will be worth shipping. And whos gonna scrap computers when the only parts that can make money on is cpus and ram. I think the escrap boom is turning into an escrap bust.