I need some suggestions and advice from you guys. My mother in law works at a medium/large sized real estate office. Every year they hold an ewaste collection event on earth day. For those who haven't seen my other posts, I recently took the next step and formed myself an llc. When I mentioned this to the mil she told me about the event and asked if I wanted to host it. Of course, I said hells yeah. Lol. She talked to her work and they approved me as the provider for this year's event. Now, the best part is her company promotes it as a free event to the public. However, they pay the company that handles the event, in this case, me. And the best part is its on a per piece basis. So at least it's a little easier to estimate cost that way rather than a bundle for the whole thing. They're looking for me to give them an accept/non-accept list with prices by Feb 1st.
Now, where my dilemma lies is, obviously tvs are a loser so those will get charged for no matter what. But most anything else is a money maker once broken down. Do I charge a small amount on all other items, or take them all for free? I don't wanna be greedy and charge an extra 2 dollars on a computer that's gonna make me 5 or 10 bucks already, but when someone offers to do something free, it raises flags cause nobody does anything free. Lol.
My rough costs on properly disposing the crt tvs is .20/lb whole or .10/lb bare tube. I'm going to process as many as I can and take a few here and there to best buy but most will probably end up being paid for. I figure I'll charge 5 dollars for monitors, 10 for tvs under 32", 25 for over 32", and 40 for consoles and projectors.
Lcd's etc will cost about .15/lb whole and .25/lb if I steal the boards. So I figure 10 dollars under 40", 20 for bigger.
As for everything else I'm not sure what to do. I appreciate any input and advice. Especially from those that have done "free" paid events in the past.
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