escrap questions

I thought I was going to ship every month or so when I first started about 5 months ago. My first delivery was scrap from about 120 towers and servers. My 2nd month I thought I mastered my skill and doubled my frst month. So I thought Id keep that pace. But for whatever reason I ended up stockpiling and skipped a month. Then the prices dropped and in a way I'm glad they did. It gave me time to rethink my game and that's what led me to this forum. Since then I've learned to resell before I scrap and I've built a strong network of four guys who battle it out for my my "good" towers and LCD monitors. I've now sold over 10 towers for $50. Its safe to say I sell about 35 percent of all my towers for $20 to $40. In about 2 months time i have sold a total of 54 towers and 68 monitors. Now that prices have gone up a bit I'm now making arrangements to deliver over 4000 lbs. This wasn't the original plan but it's where I'm at today. I choose to drive my stuff to my buyer so I can spend some time learning from him. So to answer your question, since I basically have the space and storage containers to hold 4000 pounds I wait till I have that quantity. I was able to accumulate that in 2 months after selling what I could.

Originally Posted by Dunemaul

I like to cash in every week or 2 if possible. But thats usually when im getting around 1000-2000 lbs i flipping out cause im running out of space. Today alone filled my garage glad i got a pickup scheduled for next week. AND im finally getting paid the same day for all my Escrap is a Christmas miracle.

Well it will definitely take more time and networking to reach those weights, but that is pretty good. Who do you generally sell to?

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

I base mine on if I need money at the time for bills or maybe to buy another load. I try to sell a couple of hundred pounds at a time to make it worthwhile.

That is exactly how I am. I have scrap metal stock piled at my in laws. Waiting for the prices to rebound which will be very soon around here!

Originally Posted by Scrapcrazy

I thought I was going to ship every month or so when I first started about 5 months ago. My first delivery was scrap from about 120 towers and servers. My 2nd month I thought I mastered my skill and doubled my frst month. So I thought Id keep that pace. But for whatever reason I ended up stockpiling and skipped a month. Then the prices dropped and in a way I'm glad they did. It gave me time to rethink my game and that's what led me to this forum. Since then I've learned to resell before I scrap and I've built a strong network of four guys who battle it out for my my "good" towers and LCD monitors. I've now sold over 10 towers for $50. Its safe to say I sell about 35 percent of all my towers for $20 to $40. In about 2 months time i have sold a total of 54 towers and 68 monitors. Now that prices have gone up a bit I'm now making arrangements to deliver over 4000 lbs. This wasn't the original plan but it's where I'm at today. I choose to drive my stuff to my buyer so I can spend some time learning from him. So to answer your question, since I basically have the space and storage containers to hold 4000 pounds I wait till I have that quantity. I was able to accumulate that in 2 months after selling what I could.

I have been seeing more and more people doing like you described. Selling some of the towers to guys for far more than scrap prices.

What kind of guys do you sell to? Computer repair?

I am going to be start working on building my network of those kinds of buyers.

Multiple people on the forum suggested I try to sell before scrap. I was hesitant cause I didn't know too much about computers bedsides tearing them apart. Then I simply posted "lots of misc. Computer parts" on Craigslist. The next day I had a guy over drooling over my piles. He was a refurbisher. He basically begged me not to break any more down till I called him. Since then I've met a few more guys. All refurbishers. They tend to be interested in all of my stuff less than 4 hrs old and almost all my lap tops. I have multiple hospitals I get computers from and they seem to get rid of a lot of newer stuff. Im working with a 600 bed hospital right now, by years end they will have replaced all their older towers, leaving me over 800. One of my refurbishers takes scrap from his other guys he buys towers from as a "favor" and gives me all of it. In return I give him a tower or two. It works out great.
Another thing I do is place all of my empty towers on Craigslist as computer scrap metal for free. I do this with hopes of meeting another refurbisher who is looking for empty towers, hopefully he'll want to buy. At a minimum, I meet people who say they'll swap me a few full towers for my next load of empty 50. This is my source of networking.