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Originally Posted by hills

Yeah, i think you could run the numbers on a single, low end, tower and that would give you rough idea of a good price to pay for them. Probably the same with servers. They had a thread here on total scrap value a number of years back but a lot has changed since then. I doubt the numbers would be trustworthy.

That's really good insight on shipping by pallet. So it's like a base cost to move just about any pallet from point A to point B. Having as much weight on it as possible helps bring down your per pound cost.

I used to see pallets come in like that at the store. They must have done some experimentation to get just the right box. As i remember it was like five boxes on a tier. Two would be oriented one way and three the other way. The next tier was the same but offset 90 degrees. For tiers would make a nice square stack about six feet high. Bind it all together with plastic wrap and you've got a solid pallet that goes over the road well.

I tried the search term " How to stack a pallet " on youtube and got quite a few good hits.

>So it's like a base cost to move just about any pallet from point A to point B. Having as much weight on it as possible helps bring down your per pound cost.


Yes I THINK this is the case. So in the example above, 400/$220 or 600/$228, if I am going to send the 400 regardless, I might as-well load up as much weight as I can onto the shipment if it is already going to be sent anyway, since it is the (what Im calling) base price, that is the majority of the cost. Like.... if you were shipping a piece of paper, taped onto a pallet it might be like $150 just for the trouble/base price of picking up/shipping the pallet. But if they are already coming and getting the pallet regardless and you are paying the base price, at that point the amount of weight on it only slightly increases the price....


So if I am thinking about it correctly....



400lbs @ $220 = $0.55/lb
600lbs @ $228 = $0.38/lb


This DOESNT mean that you are "giving away" or losing money by shipping items less than $0.38/lb, IF you were intending to ship the pallet either way. You can look at it as the first 400lbs are at $0.55/lb (since you are sending that regardless). And then since it only costs $8 more for 200lbs its only $0.04 for additional pounds over 400..... at least thats what it seemed like to me after having a few beers while packing the stuff. I could be totally wrong and have sent 200lbs of stuff for free, but I dont think that is the case.


Also keep in mind these numbers where just nice round example numbers, not my actually weights/numbers, but the point remains the same, and it did work out to about the same per lbs price as the example