Not a sure thing, but keeping fingers crossed!

So went to my yard today to drop off some scrap before iron/copper prices drop much more, and to clean out part of my workshop before friends get into town this weekend. Had spoken with my yard manager previously about setting something up so I could process their ewaste. Right now they don't take anything but low grade boards(tv,stereos, etc). It's a local yard, small time, maybe a half dozen employee's if even that though they do a right good business.

Anyhow, so I took them a price list from Ewasted and Easy to show them the money that could be made if they took in computers and such. Yard manager's eyes just about popped out of his head when he saw the list. LOL. Fine folks and always treat me right so I told'm..."You start buying this stuff and I'll process the stuff for ya." His eyes lit up again at that. I think he was glad he didn't have to learn all the stuff that goes into ewaste! lol. We got only one yard here on my sandbar that buys computers an they pay crap not to mention extremely rude. So I'm all about helping the folks at my yard out. They do just fine on the ferrous/non-ferrous but hey, I'm sure they'd like even more money in their pockets! Haha.

So after all this, me and the mngr were talking and he asked if the owner was game, how I'd want to do this. Which leads me to my question..What is a good rate on something like this? They are buying it, and I'm breaking it down for shipping to our fine buyers here. I was thinking a 60/40 split, they are taking a bit more of a risk with the buying side I'd imagine. I just have to break it down and process it right so Easy and Ewasted don't track me down an break my kneecaps.

So yea..if you skipped the above 3 book story I'll sum it up here.."What would you charge if you were put in charge of your yard's ewaste?"

If this works out I'd be set for a good while. So I've got every finger crossed even a toe or three!

Admin/Mods if this is the wrong place for this I apologize, just felt like the right area of the forum!

Sirscrapalot and his traveling cooler had quite the productive day.

i have a guy that breaks down my computers for me i pay him 1.50 a computer. so the faster he breaks em down the more he gets paid. the yard will love that

Just an ideal here, but if they would buy them assembled at say $15 per hundred wt (0.15 per pound) tell them you will give them 0.20 cents per pound and let them keep the shred material. You walk away with the goodies! and they nearly doubled there outlay for the computers every week (or when you process). The advantage is you hopefully get to process on their land and leave the shred there. Then you make your $ back selling to wasted or the like.

First my thanks for the input, which is why I asked. Ha!

Mech far as cutting me out...I was smart enough to remove the contact info. They can google up ewaste buyers easily enough with or without my price sheet. So could they skip me an do it themselves? Sure, but they coulda done that before an never did. The info as we all like to say...is easy to find if you search for it. Applies to the net at large, not just SMF.

The guys who run this yard aren't net savvy. As I said in my original post they do just fine on regular old metals, they don't really need to be all cut throat about it. Could they? Sure. Will they? I don't think so.

Easy - That's what I was thinking more along the lines of. Running the ewaste side for them. Not only would it be profitable it'd be something I'd enjoy.

Whm1 - Excellent point on using their yard. This is also part of my plan. I'd rather dismantle it all right there on site then waste my time transporting. I'd work it either way but I'd rather save me time and gas. Less time commuting more time breaking down an profiting.

Thanks for the advice folks, this is why you all have a standing beer if you ever visit my sandbar.

Sirscrapalot - looking to grab a slice of the ewaste pie on his sandbar.

if you got em too excited, they may be reading this post by now ; )

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

That's not how I do it.....I hand the local yards my own price list and buy the boards leaving myself a margin for profit......

Exactly what I do aswell

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

I handed out some price sheets and business cards at my yard till the owners son decided that he was missing out, and of course he studied computers in collage. He just got done with a week long advertising campaign in all the local papers, and he's only paying .10 lb for anything computer and .02 for other electronics. (no tv/monitors) Things really started drying up after that happened.

Do your own ad campain lol. You know itw worth more then what he addvertiesed. I buy all the boards from 2 of my local yards. I get them cheap due to they dont want to fool with it and they but it all as shred lol. But I posted in the news paper awhile back and I got swamped.

me thinks this was a mistake. $ and Gold= change in attitude+personality+scrupples=friendships+trust+h onesty. We ARE living in the generation of greed. unfortunately all of us do not operate on the same principals.

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

That's not how I do it.....I hand the local yards my own price list and buy the boards leaving myself a margin for profit......

what format do you use on your price list, price per pound whole, per tower, per board, per pound of boards?