Gonna call around tomorrow and see if I can find some close places to sell my low grade board too. Got around 100lbs of them and there takin up too much space in the garage. Anyone know what there goin for right now?
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Gonna call around tomorrow and see if I can find some close places to sell my low grade board too. Got around 100lbs of them and there takin up too much space in the garage. Anyone know what there goin for right now?
I just asked at my local place on Saturday morning. 10 cents a pound. I've probably got 50-60 pounds piled up, myself.
They just started doing e-waste, and their pricing is dismal. Motherboard grade is like $1.50 or something. Same with hard drive boards. I'm going to be looking to an online buyer for everything above low-grade that I have. Even with shipping costs, it'll be a no-brainer.
Hopefully you have a better buyer.
i just throw them in with shred some yards will take em some won't
If you haven't already please check our member/buyers, they have lots of reviews. MikeQuote:
Originally Posted by Wolfwerx
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Originally Posted by miked
Yeah, I'm specifically looking at Ewasted. I'm "banking" my ewaste right now, and I'm going to start shipping some his way over the winter when I'm down.
For the record, if that works out, then I will be so grateful to have found this board. Moreso than I already am, I guess. I've learned so much from this place, and even though my weights going into the yard haven't increased too much, my money has. Much smarter yields.
The thread is re. low grade, correct?
Does it really make sense to ship low grade?
If somebody has a secret for this, I'd like to hear it. As far as I can tell, low grade pays about .15/lb max., which means 100 pounds of low grade grosses $15.00 and I'm not sure how you ship 100 pounds anywhere in a manner that makes it profitable.
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Originally Posted by volvoscrapper
I don't think anybody would ship low grade. It sure doesn't make sense to me.
Here's my trick.
Cash for Electronics Scrap - Recycle Computers - Cash 4 Electronics
They pay shipping up front and send you a small, tiny little check latter... but it's a good way to get rid of low grade boards if you are like me and have no buyers here in town and cannot dump them on the scrap yard.
DO NOT SHIP HIGH GRADE BOARDS TO THIS BUYER. I have heard bad things about their prices for high grade boards.
They will end up in the shred pile before i go and waste my time shipping them. At .10 /lb thats an extra 10 bucks in my pocket.Guess ill either wait till im ready to take my copper alum and shread or just put them out back and keep hoarding them
Getting $0.20 per pound at my yard right now.
I worked a "deal" at my yard and due to the volume of power supplies and low grade boards I had available, they put me on a dealer pricing at .25 and .20 lb.
IF you have a whole truck load and can get freight shipping on a truck load at say $2500 then shipping a truck load of 25000 pounds would make sence to ship:)
I get 16 cents at my yard
I wouldn't let your yard catch you throwing boards in with shred. The EPA regularly test shred "fluff". If it contains high levels of toxic metals (lead, cadmium, mercury) they will heavily fine the yard.
.30-.35 in Tampa
13c a kg, that works out to about 6c lb
cheap as chips but it's better then nothing being rubbish really.
if you take off the good bits there's not much left to refine.
got a car load going today, the last of my huge low grade pile, what a relief to get rid of 'em.
I just sold low grade first time to my yard. Thank goodness I only took 20 lbs. to test the waters. They paid .04 lbs. !
Don't microwaves, fridges, washers and other stuff have boards in them? I'm not sure how a few boards could destroy the shred? Also alot of stuff out there still has mercury switches in them, if I find them I remove them. Not sure what to do with them but keep them in a coffee can!Quote:
Originally Posted by BohemianLush
My yard buys them for $0.02 a pound. I found a place in another town that's giving me $0.10 a pound....
You are correct that a lot of undesirable stuff makes its way into the shred pile. Scrap yards just don't want to see you blatantly throwing hazardous material into the pile.Quote:
Originally Posted by hobo finds
One of our local yards here doesn't take low grade boards at all (Admiral). The other one I deal with (GLE) calls them "breakage" and last time paid 17 cents/lb, which seemed more than fair. They also accept as "breakage" clipped off wiring connectors, 110v plugs, etc.
Unfortunately, they only paid $1/lb for the high grade boards I had. I've been advertising and searching, but have not been able to come up with much of anything in the way of scrapped computers for a couple of months now, and was sitting on 15 lbs of motherboards that needed to get out of my garage. Didn't seem worthwhile to ship 'em.
Been starting to see lots more steel curbside lately, the weather seems to be taking the competition out of the picture.
I would ship 15# in a minute even at $3.90 lb thats a few more bucks in your pocket
Yea with high grade board if you had 15lb and only got paid $3 for them you still got $45. Even if it cost you $20 to ship you still made $25. At $1 per lb you only got $15
As far as low grade boards I have found a buyer paying .15 and about 20 min away. Just gonna keep piling them up until i have around 200lb
Anyone know a buyer in virginia or maryland?
I do...Countryside Community Recycling in My Airy, MD...
countrysidecommunityrecycling.com
I was scammed by them and ended up having to take them to court to get my product back...do your research before posting about companies even the moderators warn you about.
Edit: this is in regards to an earlier post...
I appreciate what you're saying, but my garage has to have the space to do everything I'm involved in: scrapping, woodworking, car repair, beer making, beer drinking ;) So when something sits around for long enough, it needs to be turned into money to support one of the other habits...and boxing these up and shipping them would easily have taken an hour or more. Not worth it for $10 extra. In the meantime, I just spent hours yesterday working on a car outside in the cold because the garage is full up with other stuff.Quote:
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Anyone know of an ewaste buyer local to the Detroit area?
You can try Dynamic out of Wiscousin. they pay about 24 per pound.
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Originally Posted by volvoscrapper
And, if you read my entire post you would understand I only send them low grade boards that I have no buyers here in town for. I would get banned from my scrap yards if I tried to sneak them in.... so they are a great solution for me for low grade boards only. They pay shipping, so even if I only make $3 per box, that's still better then paying to get rid of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisScrap
And again, do not send this company high grade boards.... only low grade if you have no other options... like me.
If there wasn't a use for this company I wouldn't have brought it up....
My yards won't take anything with curcit boards in them. I pay .25 for low grade and still make a profit.
Ok, think people need to understand, Taking low grade high grade any grade power supplies to metal yard is bad bad idea.. whats in these Hmmmm, TOXIXCS stuff, Thats why We recycle it, the Right way, I don't want lead in my water, or for peace sake lead in My BEER, yea yea it gets filtered besides the point.
It really bothers Me that some people would go to the extreme of tossing low grades into metal pile to be shredded... Tell You what, Send them to Me, and I'll pay you for them,
I only deal with companies that are enviromental safe.
Not saying all people are doing it, but I see alot of it .. in and on this site.
so lets keep our earth looking Fresh and Pretty...
Thats My 3 cents.
Good post bnb. I got to thinking if I pull every last piece of plastic off to be recycled without getting paid for it what would be the point of doing more harm by dumping the toxic boards in with shred. I did some searching and found a local buyer for my low grade
recycling itself isn't environmentally friendly anyway, it's done for money not the planet.
the amount of energy and resources needed to turn things into raw materials again defeats the purpose,
well, it makes corporate types feel good about themselves but in reality it's all fluff, recycling has a huge impact on the environment
in itself, most scrappers feel good about jumping on the recycling bandwagon, but yeah, fluff.
So your saying that separating the materials and sending them off to be reused isnt any better than dumping it all in a landfill?
environmentally, yes, it takes more energy then producing it or mining it actually
So basically what your saying is that you would rather drink. bathe, and swim in contaminated water than to use a little extra energy? Do you think energy is the only cost to mining or recycling? Are you afraid were going to use up our energy sources before new ones are found?
Not trying to start a war just trying to see what page your on.
just read what I say as I say it, adding words into my mouth only confuses things as I then have to talk about something else.
so many open questions, man, go scrap out a tv or something, or read up on things, contaminants don't magically disappear because the're recycled.
Didn't mean to offend you but saying that dumping these items in a landfill is better for the planet than recycling them is what I call fluff. I don't scrap TVs and hopefully you don't either because id hate to know where all the leaded glass goes with the way you look at things.
Ok. I think everybody has their view in.