$$$ Buying Electronic precious metal scrap! $$$

All-

A quick question to anyone who knows... I just got my latest invoice back from CFCS and, as usual, the tallies don't match up quite exactly to mine (but generally enough in my favor to keep me feeling fat and sassy). Anyhow, could anyone explain what "mid grade high" and "LT boards" are? I can kinda guess what a "better" mid-grade board is, but what the heck is an LT board?

Thanks and cheers,
thebugguy

PS: Another thumbs up to ewasted and crew- I was expecting a longer wait given the chaos of moving a business like that, but no- they're on top of it!

im just geusing but could it be low telecom.....does the price you were paid correspond to the low end of the telecom pay range ???

wadarbr549-

Good guess- I was given $4/lb for them, whatever they were (I was credited for 2 lbs, but that weight doesn't seem to match up with any combination of boards in my home-made inventory list).

Thanks!
tbg

this is more or less what i want to send to ewasted
i will sort/group them by type when im ready

i also have quite a bit of finger boards that i want to trim the gold edges off & add to this lot

pls guys, tell me if u think it will be worth it to send this when i have to pay approx US$60 in shipping from South Africa?

Instead of emailing since ur busy I wanted to thank all of u for great customer service as a worried seller u guys talked with me through all the delays of moving and with fast service and wonderful people I will always do business with Honorable people like all of u thanks again

Thebugguy.....I believe the LT could stand for Lap Top boards. I just got my payout sheet from them and had 3 different Telecom prices, but no low telecom. I did have Laptop Boards and the price they pay right now is exactly $4 per lb. My sheet did spell out Laptop, but someone writing yours may have shortened it.

Thank you Ewasted for your continued excellent service and I hope this move makes it even better.

msmoorad - I'm pretty sure all of that would not cover the shipping cost.

I just bought my first box of mid-grade boards the other day. Gee ..... with them all mixed together like that it's no easy task to sort them. It kinda gives on an appreciation of what it could be like on e-wasted end. :)

It's really all a matter of trust. It's better to just do the best you can and not sweat the details.

I didn't bother to inventory the stuff that i sent in this time. Just left a note describing what was inside the box so as to hopefully make it a little easier for the sorters on his end.

Got the value recovered report this morning and i'm well satisfied. He's a good buyer. They have their own way of sorting and it's probably not an exact science. Some things are just hard to classify. No worries !

msmoorad, You'll have to generate a whole lot more to make it worthwhile, what you have there would not pay the shipping.

thank u for the advice

it sucks when the few guys in the country doing ewaste pay less than half of what u guys get in that part of the world

i have a lot more, mostly motherboards, but then shipping charges will increase

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Originally Posted by msmoorad

thank u for the advice

it sucks when the few guys in the country doing ewaste pay less than half of what u guys get in that part of the world

i have a lot more, mostly motherboards, but then shipping charges will increase

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Man that's brutal , I just sent 99lbs for $86 . If I were you I would only ship ram,CPUs and fears drive boards . Sell anything else locally to help pay the shipping. . Just my 2 cents

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Originally Posted by Metalbestos

Man that's brutal , I just sent 99lbs for $86 . If I were you I would only ship ram,CPUs and fears drive boards . Sell anything else locally to help pay the shipping. . Just my 2 cents

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Yep, ship the highest value stuff to get the most bang for your buck

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Originally Posted by thebugguy

All-

A quick question to anyone who knows... I just got my latest invoice back from CFCS and, as usual, the tallies don't match up quite exactly to mine (but generally enough in my favor to keep me feeling fat and sassy). Anyhow, could anyone explain what "mid grade high" and "LT boards" are? I can kinda guess what a "better" mid-grade board is, but what the heck is an LT board?

Thanks and cheers,
thebugguy

PS: Another thumbs up to ewasted and crew- I was expecting a longer wait given the chaos of moving a business like that, but no- they're on top of it!

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Buggy,

Hopefully I'm not stepping on Mario's toes by answering.

LT boards are laptop motherboards (current price is $4/ lb just checked)

Mid grade high are circuit boards that are lower than motherboards and telecom boards (current quoted price is $1.70) Mario would be able to better define these. should have some chips and no heavy components, but check with Mario.

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Originally Posted by Metalbestos

Man that's brutal , I just sent 99lbs for $86 . If I were you I would only ship ram,CPUs and fears drive boards . Sell anything else locally to help pay the shipping. . Just my 2 cents

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If you a sending by fed ex, keep your boxes under 75 pounds. That is the magic number where cost changes dramatically

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Originally Posted by mthomasdev

If you a sending by fed ex, keep your boxes under 75 pounds. That is the magic number where cost changes dramatically

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70 Pounds seems to be the magic number for me, unless something changed.

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Originally Posted by KzScrapper

70 Pounds seems to be the magic number for me, unless something changed.

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Could be! I always thought it was 75. To be safe, keep your boxes below 70 pounds. Above that and FedEx seems to have higher rates.

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Originally Posted by mthomasdev

If you a sending by fed ex, keep your boxes under 75 pounds. That is the magic number where cost changes dramatically

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Thanks , I might have to go pallet before I go multiple boxes . But good problem to have none the less !

Ewasted, have you brought any ewaste from NewZealand before?

Msmoorad sorta got the same probem that we have here, it just costs too much to ship it anywhere.

However, I have talked to a guy in the scrapmetal business. Part of what he does is to send shipping containers full of engines and other car parts to the USA
Because there's always a little bit of space in the roof/top of the shipping container, he can squeeze in lowheight pallets of stuff.
When the shipping container gets to America, they unload the pallets of ewaste and send them onwards.

Well, this is the theory, I'm not sure if he's actually done it yet. I just talked to a worker there about it.
I have over a full size pallet so far. And our local ewaste collector just went bust.......
.I know one of the subcrontractors/collectors, he's got pallets and pallets of CRT tvs all ready to go...
Now he just got a CRT problem.... The goverments expected to step in and figure out a way of dealing with the CRTs.

But, he also has computers, he and I have talked about him scraping them down himself and us 2 combining a load of ewaste to the US of A thru the scrapmetal dealer.
I can show him how to do it, or buy them off him.

I will get more details from the scrapdealer, who I have not sold to yet. I expect its going to be about 3 pallets of very clean and well sorted escrap.

Do you know if people can ship from canada? Im from Nova scotia if it helps

I read somewhere on the forum before that ewasted buys CD/DVDs? Is that correct? Wish I was able to get a full list of stuff he buys, seems theres so many items that arent listed.

RevenantDusk...I don't think they buy CD/DVDs just the circuit boards from the drives and the drives themselves. You can email them with items you have for sale that are not on the list at info@cashforcomputerscrap.com

Heres the thread I was referring to:
http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/non-m...-recyling.html

Knew I read it somewhere.

Oh, you're right then. I hadn't seen that one and it sure isn't on their price lists. Good catch there. It would take a lot of them to make the 10,000 lb required weight.

The other pawn shop on my sandbar will buy them. He doesn't pay much but he'll buy them. He has a machine that fixes them. I dunno the details an only know what I know cause I asked how he was able to sell movies an games so cheap.

So there is a market for the used ones. I know when I was AZ they had a place called bookmans that would give you like.. .50 per cd as in store credit, if you took cash it was like .25 or .10 per.

I'd rather deal with Mario personally, but i don't have a tractor trailer's worth..lol.

Sirscrapalot - Likes using CD/DVDs as frisbee's.

I have a couple of games that are totally unplayable or the disc is glitched, so I figured if he pays for them Id just send em in with my next box of ewaste.

Rev I got a reply for ya, but i don't want to add any more to E's thread. Tough on the folks looking for buyer info. Will post my reply in the CD/DVD thread you posted earlier.

To ewasted an his crew..Sorry the addition to your thread. Sucker is long enough without us all bantering in it.

Sirscrapalot - To The other thread Batman!

@EWasted: I think I am doing something wrong on the site. I cannot figure out how to get the prepaid shipping label. I think I've requested it correctly, but it hasn't shown up. Any thoughts?

Never Mind: It was hiding in the Spam folder. How do I send another box? I finished one while my quote was in limbo.

Thanks!

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@EWasted: I think I am doing something wrong on the site. I cannot figure out how to get the prepaid shipping label. I think I've requested it correctly, but it hasn't shown up. Any thoughts?

Never Mind: It was hiding in the Spam folder. How do I send another box? I finished one while my quote was in limbo.

Thanks!

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You will have to sign up for another box (label) as that shipping label you have now was based on the weight you told them.

Just wanted to give a quick review for Ewasted. Great Company! My shipment arrived on a Friday morning, was processed by the following Wednesday and I was payed on a Thursday, so just under a week turnaround for my order. Payment was right around what I had calculated. I also really like the customer service chat they were quickly able to answer my questions/resolve a small issue. I will be sending more stuff there way!

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Originally Posted by matador

@EWasted: I think I am doing something wrong on the site. I cannot figure out how to get the prepaid shipping label. I think I've requested it correctly, but it hasn't shown up. Any thoughts?

Never Mind: It was hiding in the Spam folder. How do I send another box? I finished one while my quote was in limbo.

Thanks!

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Thanks for posting this! I couldn't find mine either and now I feel like a moron

And side note: GREAT shipping price. Way better than if I had gone through fedex myself

HI. I am newbie to all of this scrapping and need a lot of help. I am going to be sending my scrap computer parts to ewasted. Here are my questions.

1. I only have one computer to scrap, so can I just send the computer as a whole?
(I only have one of every part.)
(I have a motherboard, hdd, dvd and cd player in one, floppy disk player, a dedicated telephone card, 280 watt power supply, and an aluminum case)

2. What is the approximate price for a 20 pound computer parts?

3. what is the approximate shipping price form Brooklyn NY?

Thank you.
This is a great community.

steve,,,it costs me roughly 20 cents per pound to ship to ewasted,,,,,i am very close to him also......you may want to wait till you have enough to justify shipping costs.......the less you ship the more per pound it will cost you....as a general rule most like to ship 65 to 70 pounds.......i actually think you would loose money shipping 1 computer even if you stripped 3 or 4 or 5 you would still not make much after shipping.......you may want to save stuff up for a bit

Thanks wadarbr549, Do you have any idea on how I can collect parts? For now I just have this one computer given to me at my work.

go on over to the introduction section,,,,introduce yourself......do some reading in the archives....lets not clog up ewasted's thread...youl get more help if you post your own thread,,,,,and in the meantime search electronics breakdown,,, and board grading in the archives...the question of where to find scrap has been asked alot...search in the search bar and you can see the answers other members have got in the past

Not trying to be a nuisance or anything, but can we get a updated price list if possible?

Stevescrapper,
Ewasted doesnt purchase whole computers. Better to wait until you have more material to send in. Im also in Brooklyn and I sent a 32 lb box, cost 20 something dollars to ship. Theres high grade boards in flat screen TVs/moniters, cable boxes, modems, telecom equipment, and projection TVs to name a few. Cell phones and their batteries are another thing to look out for. Also gold plated connecters from wire, and IC chips from low grade boards(Use a flat head screw driver to pop out the ones with prongs on only 2 sides, the ones that are soldered to the board with legs on all sides, use a knife to cut at least one row of legs of, and pry with a flathead). The search function here is very useful, youll learn a lot.

Good luck!

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Originally Posted by Kochy

Not trying to be a nuisance or anything, but can we get a updated price list if possible?

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Be careful what you wish for!!!! Have you seen the precious metals market lately?!?!???

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Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER

Be careful what you wish for!!!! Have you seen the precious metals market lately?!?!???

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Not to worry, I'm getting ready to send my next box and as soon as FedEx picks it up I'm quite sure the prices will change....;(

Anyone else had issues getting payment here lately.. Sent shipment says payment was sent 8/27 and have not received yet. Have not gotten check yet and have not been able to to get the online operator or any email response.

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Anyone else had issues getting payment here lately.. Sent shipment says payment was sent 8/27 and have not received yet. Have not gotten check yet and have not been able to to get the online operator or any email response.

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Hello
I dont see any emails regarding missing payments, also no inbox messages. Please PM me to take care of this. Thanks