The obvious anwser is TV's and Monitors, but what else?
The obvious anwser is TV's and Monitors, but what else?
Guitar hero crap or rock band.
vibrators and sexual toys...lmao......
Who is trying to sell you electronics for $0.02lb(no I don't want their actual name)? Mike.
stolen ones?
Printers
Vcr's
DVD players
copiers
Fax machines
All small personal electronics(walkmans, ipods)
Home phones
Keyboards
Mice
Speakers
This stuff is mostly plastic and not worth anything. You wont be finding us paying for this unless there is tonnage involved.
I would buy the big coppiers at .02 a pound. My yard will take them whole for shred so IDe make .12 a pound right now on them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Escrap
I would buy the big coppiers at .02 a pound. My yard will take them whole for shred so IDe make .12 a pound right now on them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Escrap
I don't buy them because I know I can get them for free. I guess that is why I put that on there. It is all about the FREE money, haha.
YEah they are all over CL. I was gonna try and do a citywide pickup ad on CL and see how many I could get in one day. I just took one from work and got $40 for it. Have to buy doughnuts with the money since it belonged to everyone at the shop. If I could line up to pick up 10 in one day that would be a vey good day in my book.
I ask this question because I havw been buying up almost all "other" (as in non valuable) for $.02 per pound. The idea has worked well because people can gather up boxes of old stuff like that mentioned by Escrap to which typically costs less than $2.00. As someone on another thread, its good advertising and more of an incentive for these individuals to give you a call. Some whould never call for their one cell phone or one laptop but let them believe they are going to get money for their boxes of old stuff and they tend to want to call. So far, the only things that are absolutely net negative to buy at .02 per pound are speakers, TV's, Monitors, Mice and Keyboards (although i recently found out that a local buyer pays .025 cents per pound for keyboards.
Yeah we often get paid to pick them up. Most people do not want to deal with loading them up. Are you finding yourself losing money on all that material. I honestly think that people would still give you all that stuff without you having to pay for it.
Your probably right Escrap. Going the free route first is alway best. There are two factors that help when dealing with these junk electronics. 1) individuals often are bad with gauging per-pound weight; they see a box of stuff and think they are going to get more than they do. It takes a lot of phones, vcrs, etc to equal $100 pounds (or $2.00). 2) What i'm betting on is their other items and word of mouth.
I'm still playing around with the system here, as I still have a lot to learn, in time we'll see if my logic is right on this.
Well the person paying for the material of course. But what happens when someone comes in with 35000lbs of Tv's. You are going to pay them 700 for a load of junk. Also when your name gets out there, it will be that you pay for all this material, and then you are going to have to tell potential customers that you no longer pay for it if you ever decide to stop paying for it. Just my thoughts.
Solid point about getting your name out there and then latter changing your mind about what you buy. Riddle me this though, if someone were to try and dump, say 20,000 pounds of house phones to which I would pay $400.00, wouldn't it be a reasonable assumption that I could sell the boards at shred prices and the plastic at shred price (given this much plastic) and still make money? I could very well be wrong about this, but just a thought.
I would love to make 15.00/unit. Couldn't even imagine
I don't know a lot of yards that will buy that material as shred price.. I mean really what metal are they buying.
You would be surprised what some yards will take as shred. My yard will take about anything but CRT's. Vaccums, VCR's, printers, whatever. I think the price of shred accounts for all the other crap that gets thrown in with it.
First of all keyboards have silver on the mylar sheets. Right now I get $1.00 per lbs for them, as the price of silver gos up so should the price of the mylar sheets. From all the investment reports I've been reading silver is going to shoot up by the end of the year. Arcoa.com buys cell phones at $5.50 per lbs and home or office phones for $0.27 per lbs. If you advertise for these items I would note in the add that I do not buy crt's or tv's.
Happy, where are you selling the mylars?