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    Quote Originally Posted by Paveitall View Post
    Appreciate the comments, All i was asking for is anyone with direct experience with a refiner like Sabin so i can make an educated decision as to what to do with this product, maybe selling to Ewasted or board sort is best for me IDK. As stated above by several people, one of my concerns is that i will get ripped off sending a truckload to a refiner and "hoping for the best".

    I started in this industry several years ago working (volunteering) at Ewaste Events, that progressed into me purchasing some of the material collected at events and repairing and re-selling electronics, i made a little extra money but truly i did it because i enjoyed what i was doing. Thru the years I have made a lot of connections and in January decided to start a company with my brother when we secured several large contracts, along with fixed contracts we host both paid and free events monthly. We were prepared for the CRT's, it was our biggest concerns, one thing we were not prepared for was the volume of commodity laden materials. Incoming waste in June was 35,863Lbs (35% CRT's), CRT's, power supplies, optical drives got to WI but all we have shipped so far is one load of CRT's, Desktops are broken down and components sold, laptops are re-purposed if possible, copper aluminum and steel sold locally, most peripherals are shipped 250 miles and recycled as "TIN" for $.03/Lb. Whats left, HDD's & Boards (dual, single, finger, telecom, lowgrade). As of today i have 6 gaylords full of single metal socket boards and other boxes partial filled with other types. i have a lot of room to store this stuff but im just trying to plan for late fall when i will have a full truckload.

    I have contacted Sabin, i don't need 5M Lbs, there is a set processing fee of $2,500 and a declining schedule based on volume. Im waiting to get all the particulars, i had to fill out some federal forms (KYC & Anti corruption) before they will discuss specifics which were submitted last week. Again if anyone has experience with direct ship to a refiner i would like to hear the good and bad.
    Ultimately, what are you looking to achieve by going to a refinery?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ewasted View Post
    Ultimately, what are you looking to achieve by going to a refinery?
    I can think of several good reasons, going direct to a refinery eliminates how many hands the goods pass through, maximize price thus allowing seller to become competitive in the market.

    When I shipped my drum of milled catalytic comb to a refiner in New York, they simply forwarded the drum to Metallix in Carolina, if you think the forward on that drum was free your sadly mistaken. Just one more middle man seeking a living off my back.

    What I've learned about refinery's and this is not to say all are the same, listen to the guy your speaking with if he constantly sniffles move along - find another refinery to deal with. Too easy to hide the chronic sniffles via email.

    My man in New York did not inform me of the fact my drum was forwarded to another refinery for processing, it came about purely by mistake during a conversation we were having when a company I know in Vancouver B.C. that refines lead - the two names so similar confused him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alloy2 View Post
    I can think of several good reasons, going direct to a refinery eliminates how many hands the goods pass through, maximize price thus allowing seller to become competitive in the market.

    When I shipped my drum of milled catalytic comb to a refiner in New York, they simply forwarded the drum to Metallix in Carolina, if you think the forward on that drum was free your sadly mistaken. Just one more middle man seeking a living off my back.

    What I've learned about refinery's and this is not to say all are the same, listen to the guy your speaking with if he constantly sniffles move along - find another refinery to deal with. Too easy to hide the chronic sniffles via email.

    My man in New York did not inform me of the fact my drum was forwarded to another refinery for processing, it came about purely by mistake during a conversation we were having when a company I know in Vancouver B.C. that refines lead - the two names so similar confused him.

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    With all due respect the question was directed towards the original poster. It was a fact finding question as different people are looking for different things. Trying to understand his goals, and not yours, will help us give him some feedback.

    Going "direct" does NOT always maximize price, that is a farce. Like everything in life, there is a time and place.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alloy2 View Post
    I can think of several good reasons, going direct to a refinery eliminates how many hands the goods pass through, maximize price thus allowing seller to become competitive in the market.

    When I shipped my drum of milled catalytic comb to a refiner in New York, they simply forwarded the drum to Metallix in Carolina, if you think the forward on that drum was free your sadly mistaken. Just one more middle man seeking a living off my back.

    What I've learned about refinery's and this is not to say all are the same, listen to the guy your speaking with if he constantly sniffles move along - find another refinery to deal with. Too easy to hide the chronic sniffles via email.

    My man in New York did not inform me of the fact my drum was forwarded to another refinery for processing, it came about purely by mistake during a conversation we were having when a company I know in Vancouver B.C. that refines lead - the two names so similar confused him.

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    Just as my earlier post said, some refiners aren't refiners. I had a guy tell me he is in talks to sell his 150 catalytic converters (I laughed) to this BIG time refinery in NY state. I laughed again and said "did they offer to show you any of their BIG time refining machines?" Answer was "um no".
    Truth is there are ZERO refineries in NY.
    Metallix is a refinery BUT their results are TERRIBLE. They have also broken contracts and made many lies to me. So you unfortunately were bitten twice by the "refinery" label. I was bitten by Metallix but learned quickly that I can sell my converters elsewhere for more money. I am also very confident that I can beat their pricing by buying off of people in the can-cash and carry. Metallix may know how to push a button to start a machine or two but they DONT know converters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by APA View Post
    Truth is there are ZERO refineries in NY.
    There are many small "refiners" in New York state - it is just a matter of finding them in the refining forums.
    I send my Tantalum to a privet buyer in Buffalo who pays me based on yield ( and it is higher than what the buyers on this forum offer, per pound ) .
    It can sometimes take a long time to find the right buyer for your products - saying there are no refiners in New York is asinine, in my opinion.

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    Catalytic converter refineries was the context of my post, read it again.
    Do you really want to call what I said asinine? Let's pretend you didn't say that, don't go down that road.


    Quote Originally Posted by RLS0812 View Post
    There are many small "refiners" in New York state - it is just a matter of finding them in the refining forums.
    I send my Tantalum to a privet buyer in Buffalo who pays me based on yield ( and it is higher than what the buyers on this forum offer, per pound ) .
    It can sometimes take a long time to find the right buyer for your products - saying there are no refiners in New York is asinine, in my opinion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ewasted View Post
    Ultimately, what are you looking to achieve by going to a refinery?
    Ewasted,

    I think the only advantage i can see to sending it to a refiner is keeping more money in my pocket. What i'm trying to determine is the risk and effort variance between a refiner and a buyer. As I see it (I've been wrong before) Risk is the same, i can get screwed just as easily by by both sides. Effort, I still sort and load truck with refiner or buyer?

    My situation is probably a little different from most as i reside in a part of the country with very few if any buyers (still looking for one). Ewasted if you were able to come over to our shop and do a monthly buy, i might go that direction. I get really curious when someone tells me its to hard to do, that tells me maybe i should look a little closer.

    I think i have made up my mind and i appreciate everyone input on this. Im going to select a refiner and ship as soon as i have 20,000 Lbs (or whatever i can cram into a truckload). Since this whole process seems to be a huge mystery, im going to post my step by step process here. I hope to have a full truckload by October, i will weigh and sort everything going into the truck and report the weights by product (with pictures) here before it ships, you guys can tell me what your buyers are paying for these products that way we can compare the value a buyer would pay to what i ultimately get. Im going to assume i will get some kind of report back from the refiner telling what i sent and the value recovered, i will scan that info and post it here as well. I like being the Guinea Pig and im really curious myself, might get screwed but thats ok we will find out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paveitall View Post
    Ewasted,

    I think the only advantage i can see to sending it to a refiner is keeping more money in my pocket. What i'm trying to determine is the risk and effort variance between a refiner and a buyer. As I see it (I've been wrong before) Risk is the same, i can get screwed just as easily by by both sides. Effort, I still sort and load truck with refiner or buyer?

    My situation is probably a little different from most as i reside in a part of the country with very few if any buyers (still looking for one). Ewasted if you were able to come over to our shop and do a monthly buy, i might go that direction. I get really curious when someone tells me its to hard to do, that tells me maybe i should look a little closer.

    I think i have made up my mind and i appreciate everyone input on this. Im going to select a refiner and ship as soon as i have 20,000 Lbs (or whatever i can cram into a truckload). Since this whole process seems to be a huge mystery, im going to post my step by step process here. I hope to have a full truckload by October, i will weigh and sort everything going into the truck and report the weights by product (with pictures) here before it ships, you guys can tell me what your buyers are paying for these products that way we can compare the value a buyer would pay to what i ultimately get. Im going to assume i will get some kind of report back from the refiner telling what i sent and the value recovered, i will scan that info and post it here as well. I like being the Guinea Pig and im really curious myself, might get screwed but thats ok we will find out.
    Thanks for the solid response!
    Here are my thoughts:
    You may end up getting less not more from a refiner... with all due respect, your terms will suck. You won't have volumes to make it worth their while. In other words, terms we have will have a much higher probability of netting out a great dollar amount than you can recover. There are items we buy at prices we pay, that you may recover less than what we pay and you are going to feel like you got screwed... well you didn't get screwed.

    Please don't misconstrue my thoughts as trying to leverage you into selling to us... sure we would like the business, but I really am an awful business man to my own fault. For that reason I am asking clarifying questions. You are going to have to be prepared to lose significant money and NOT be upset... part of being a bad business man allowed me to move on after some tragic results.

    At the end of the day, it comes out to what business do you want to be in.

    Hopefully you don't end up like U2 (still haven't found what I am looking for) at the end of the process... every single load is a roll of the dice... and don't forget TimeValueMoney!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ewasted View Post
    Thanks for the solid response!
    Here are my thoughts:
    You may end up getting less not more from a refiner... with all due respect, your terms will suck. You won't have volumes to make it worth their while. In other words, terms we have will have a much higher probability of netting out a great dollar amount than you can recover. There are items we buy at prices we pay, that you may recover less than what we pay and you are going to feel like you got screwed... well you didn't get screwed.

    Please don't misconstrue my thoughts as trying to leverage you into selling to us... sure we would like the business, but I really am an awful business man to my own fault. For that reason I am asking clarifying questions. You are going to have to be prepared to lose significant money and NOT be upset... part of being a bad business man allowed me to move on after some tragic results.

    At the end of the day, it comes out to what business do you want to be in.

    Hopefully you don't end up like U2 (still haven't found what I am looking for) at the end of the process... every single load is a roll of the dice... and don't forget TimeValueMoney!
    Fair Response Ewasted. Just to clarify, I did not intend to be in the scrap business but i now realize that i am. Your points are very good ones and things i need to consider and go to the heart of my question. If all I stand to gain is 5-10% from sending to the refiner, vrs dealing with a good buyer then i think my decision is simple. But if its 20-30% i might consider alternatives and that's all i was trying to understand.

    Posters Remorse - In my ignorance i didn't realize i was asking buyers for answers to this question, that's not a fair question to ask buyers in an open Forum like this. That's part of a buyers business that probably takes many years to perfect and i do apologize if I unintentionally offended you or other buyers here, that was not my intent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paveitall View Post
    Fair Response Ewasted. Just to clarify, I did not intend to be in the scrap business but i now realize that i am. Your points are very good ones and things i need to consider and go to the heart of my question. If all I stand to gain is 5-10% from sending to the refiner, vrs dealing with a good buyer then i think my decision is simple. But if its 20-30% i might consider alternatives and that's all i was trying to understand.

    Posters Remorse - In my ignorance i didn't realize i was asking buyers for answers to this question, that's not a fair question to ask buyers in an open Forum like this. That's part of a buyers business that probably takes many years to perfect and i do apologize if I unintentionally offended you or other buyers here, that was not my intent.
    Offensive? YES... hurt my feelings? YES

    I couldn't imagine going on a forum that sells a product and ask what they pay for it or how much they make


    All sarcasm aside, you are from the outside looking in. The grass is always greener that way. You have my assurance it is not as easy is it appears from the outside... every day we give it the good fight. If you are expecting 20-30% then you have grossly underestimated the competitiveness of this industry.

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