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Originally Posted by Ewasted

Hello
I just cut and paste the below from the price list:
$3.20 Motherboards Large Socket (All Colors - Slot, P3 and older)

Says slot in the parenthesis.

What about the AMD processors? What's the cutoff there?

I just boxed up another 30 lbs of e-scrap (I know- overwhelming, isn't it?) that I'll drop off over lunch.

I have to say that I appreciate the new motherboard categories- it's simpler and in many cases makes predicting the potential value of whole computers a little easier.

There are two things that are sort of "bugging" me though- I went ahead and took the metal brackets off the gold finger boards even though the policy explicitly states you don't have to. I guess I'm secretly somehow hoping they get priced a little better but, if not, I will have shot myself in the foot. Oh well, at least I have a slightly larger collection of jack screws...

Also, I took a leap of faith and sent in my meager CPU collection- in some cases there was only one of a particular type. Depending on how you read what's online, either there *are* minimum quantities or weights, or there *aren't*. I have to assume it is "better"/more efficient for Ewasted to receive larger quantities of any particular item, but then I also assume that if they are willing to tolerate (even encourage) folks to send in 30 lbs of stuff at a time that they can (and will?) weigh out and pay for relative handfuls of higher-valued items.

Live and learn, I suppose- cheers!
tbg

Originally Posted by Ewasted

Hello!
We are trying to make things easier... sometimes this ends up being more difficult.
There are no minimums on CPUs, we go through all of them. We can't make a list of all the different types, there are hundreds. So we sometimes have to mix and match ,especially if low quantities of each type. Does this help?

This brings up a lingering question I've had. For those of us that deal with small quantities, how can we help you make sure we get paid for categories where we only have one item? For example, a box with mostly motherboards (most are P4) but two are dual socket server, and one telecom board. I don't want to wait until I have a box full of telecom and a box full of dual socket server boards (it could be years). What can I do to make sure I don't just get paid motherboards for all of the box?

just had another great transaction with Mario and the crew.. thanks again.

Originally Posted by foobar

Originally Posted by Ewasted

Hello!
We are trying to make things easier... sometimes this ends up being more difficult.
There are no minimums on CPUs, we go through all of them. We can't make a list of all the different types, there are hundreds. So we sometimes have to mix and match ,especially if low quantities of each type. Does this help?

This brings up a lingering question I've had. For those of us that deal with small quantities, how can we help you make sure we get paid for categories where we only have one item? For example, a box with mostly motherboards (most are P4) but two are dual socket server, and one telecom board. I don't want to wait until I have a box full of telecom and a box full of dual socket server boards (it could be years). What can I do to make sure I don't just get paid motherboards for all of the box?

Put in plastic grocery bags or smaller shoe box size boxes inside your larger box. Use ziplock bags to seperate processors and then put all ziplock bags in platic grocery bags. Just some suggestions

I highly agree with BC when it comes to adding small quantity, or even just separating stuff. I sent him several boxes at one time, took the time to bag things up using ziploc's. Didn't have any issues with them processing everything, an it was all spot on. Had I not separated them, I can only imagine how long it would have taken them to sort my boxes. Rubber Bands work also!

An like E said..no min. on the cpu's. Last time I sent a batch in, I had few that didn't quite make a lb, an was paid accordingly an very much to my satisfaction.

High prices are great, but I find..being quick to reply to emails, answering questions, taking time to come on here an help educate your sellers, and one of the best reps I've encountered when it comes to a buyer..trumps that high price.

An for that..I stay loyal. It's hard to find a company in this day n'age that is as upstanding as Mario an co. Good folks, good service, an they don't jerk me around. That to me is a

Keep up the good work Mario an crew! Someday me an the cooler will make it out that way to visit in person.

Sirscrapalot - Keeper of the traveling cooler.

Sorry if I'm asking a question that's already been answered (i promise - I looked for a little bit) but What are Media Boards? Also, what category do the boards out of printers fall in? Routers and Satellite Boxes?

** Side Note: Have had so many awesome transactions with CFCS that it seems redundant for me to keep posting about them unless I can think of something better than "Went great" or something of that nature - The way that they conduct business made me loyal beyond price differences - If they buy it : I'm selling it to CFCS!!***

I figured as much.... oh, if only there were simple answers right? lol

I may just keep them all separated & whatever happens, happens. With all the changes going on I don't want to have to bug him over remedial stuff like this.

All-

I thought I would give another little shout out to Ewasted and Co. here. My latest batch of e-scrap was dropped off at FedEx here in NE Kansas on Wednesday noon, arrived at his facility this morning and my Paypal account went *ka-ching* just a few minutes ago- awesome! It's almost hard to believe how well his system works.

A little data for comparative purposes: the boxed weighed ~32 lbs at shipping; my gross was $109.27, shipping was $19.84 (~$0.62/lb), net was $89.43. I predicted a net of $91.12, an overestimate of $1.69 or about 2% (which I consider quite a reasonable margin of error). As usual a few items were bumped up and a few were dinged (I guess no more shipping Li-ion button batteries...). As for the question above about laptop boards- I had exactly one in the lot and it was listed separately in the "value recovered report", pegged at $4.00/lb (it also happened to be a large-socket board).

I'm no big player here but am tickled to have this outlet for relatively small piles of stuff. We'll see if I ever get to the volumes necessary to pare down on the shipping costs...

cheers,
tbg