Question about gold fingers

That is what i call a sales pitch or creating a story in order to get the sale. I have the eye for it, but 90% of the escrap buyers out there dont, beacuse they dont specialize in separating by grade. Like just with fingers you have about 20 different grades and subgrades. You have single sided, double sided, thick boards, thin boards, fingers on mylar, and so on. Id prefer to sell it here, but the problem is all of the buyers here are base rate buyers. That means they have a fixed price for certain types of material. I have no problem selling my low grade fingers to one of the buyers here for $60. But at $60 theres no way id sell the high grade fingers to them because i know better.

I do not envy your job, honestly. I am fortunate enough to know what I can sell my end product for, so there is a little forgiveness built in if I make a mistake in my figures. But for people who scrap, you not only have to know all the tricks of the trade that make the difference between making a living at this or not, but you also have to be business savvy enough to understand the market, what you can be paid for a certain type of scrap, what is a fair price in your area to buy it for, how much time and effort it is going to take to get the money back out and buffer enough so that if you cannot find someone to purchase at the price you want, you don't loose money.

I know it has to be tough.

Everyone is trying to be business savvy and retain the lions share of the profit. Refiners don't know how much goes into scrapping certain things, and scrappers usually are not aware of the work and cost involved in refining. Each accordingly seems to think they deserve to make most of the profit.

You have a lot of great looking material jghilino, you might be better served trying to find someone to toll refine for you. I think you have enough material that you should be able to find a toll refiner who would do it for 10% of the value. And I bet you can find someone to do that for you on the GRF forum. Just post pictures, weights, and a request to find an honest refiner who is willing to refine it for 10% of the yield. There is one person in particular I would warn you about, and although I will not post negative things about people on a forum, if you ask me about a particular person you are thinking about doing business with, I will tell you if it is that person or not.

If I wasn't so swamped I might make you an offer on your material. I am at the end of my year, I want to close this quarter so I can do all my paperwork before xmas, and trying to clean up everything so that I can move into a bigger location in January. As far as toll refining is concerned, I no longer do that type of work, but there really are a lot of people on GRF who are really honest, and would do a great job.

Scott