Circuit Boards

Originally Posted by dherik

Here's my take on all this. If you want to criticize someone else's statements back it up with fact, not generalities. And as far as you paid 50k in assay fee's I'd find a new refiner. I don't think I've come across a refiner that charges a dime for assay. My first load was under 500 lbs and the refiner still sent my my assay results free before I made the decision to have it refined.

But if you want to tell people their wrong, especially on a forum meant to enlighten people back it up plain and simple. We aren't competition for each other, the whole point of this board is to help each other. Why do you think we have the info we do in the scrap room. Why do you think people want to start an association.

Dherik,
that wasnt a criticism... if you don't like my response than ignore it. We have been doing this for 7 years, we ship out in excess of 50,000 lbs of printed circuit boards a month... i also never mentioned the number "50" as to what we paid. When you ship material to the smelter they ALWAYS charge an assay fee. Not to mention it can take up to 5 months to get paid on an entirely DIFFERENT market.

99.9% of domestic refiners are stripping facilities which don't get you a complete recovery. So when you say they offer a "free" assay thats because they make gravy on what they lacked in ability to recover... this isn't jewelry it is electronic scrap... the recovery is much more difficult of the various precious metals not to mention much more dangerous.



As for being competition, we source material from all regions of the US as well as Canada.

I am on the forum to help others, but spoonfeeding is not an option for me. We have a successful business and operation... im happy to encourage others to success and provide advice when feasible... if you have a problem with this, perhaps you can block all of my posts?

This is a tough, dirty business... no one spoonfed me and we took some serious financial risks to know what we know... just like easy - if you want to know the answers then go on the journey.