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Buying Electronic Precious Metal Scrap!
Cash for your Computer Scrap | Cash for Computer Scrap

PRICING EFFECTIVE (meaning current)
4-15-2024

ATTENTION: If interested in working with us, please allow us to send you a quote on shipping picked up at your door!
Effective Immediately:
Mail in program criteria:
1. Must have a lot value of $150 or more (if using our prepaid labels, the $150 is the total lot value before shipping deduction)
2. If lot value is less than $150, we request no more than 3 grades of material, pre sorted.



Pricing delivered to our dock (44139)
PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS
Please remove batteries and excess AL and Steel - Please remove mercury relays as well. Those will incur a charge if received.
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$2.40 Motherboards Small Socket (All Colors - P4 and Newer)
$5.50 Motherboards Large Socket (All Colors - Slot, P3 and older)
$2.90 Mid Grade High - Finger Board Trimmed/Devalued, Peripheral Boards, Wireless Router Boards Low End
$1.50 Mid Grade – Mid grade boards that are less populated than mid grade high and/or contain and abundance of contamination and/or are newer with less intrinsic metal content.
$5.25 Finger Boards (Only need to remove OVERSIZED heatsinks, battery... metal bracket is OK)
$6.35 Dual Socket Server Boards - Large Socket
$3.85 Dual Socket Server Boards - Small Socket
$4.35 Telecom Low Grade
$6.35 Telecom Mid Grade
$5.50 CD/DVD Boards (please remove ribbon wire and brown board if attached)
$4.35+ Tape Drive Boards (Paid on sort)
$5.50 Laptop Motherboard Boards

HIGH VALUE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$10.50 RAMBUS (Memory with METAL Enclosure, also Blank Memory and Memory with Gold Trim cut)
$13.00 Hard Drive Boards (Sorting fee of $.30 per lb. Hard Drive Boards paid on sort once removing Floppy, CD/DVD and Media Boards)
$13.00 Cell Phone Boards CLEAN (please remove excess Plastic, Steel, Screens, Aluminum and Battery)
$-.50/lb Memory Mixed (Sorting fee of $.50 per lb. Memory paid on sort at pricing below)
$25.25 Gold Memory
$11.25 Silver/Tin Memory
$50.00 Gold Fingers (Pricing is for quality cut trim. Little to no Green, otherwise deduction)
$21.00 Slot Processor

OTHER PRECIOUS METAL ITEMS
PRICE/LB MATERIAL

$1.25 Gold Connectors
$5.85 Older Cell Phones w/o battery and back cover removed
$3.25 Smart Phones w/o battery and back cover removed
$2.75 Any Cell Phone with back cover and/or battery
$8.25 IC Chips/Eproms

CPUs (Must be Sorted)
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$190.00 Intel 386 and 486
$190.00 Motorola
$115.00 Pentium Pro Gold Caps
$75.00 Cyrix/IBM/VIA Gold Cap
$50.00 Pentium Ceramic
$50.00 AMD Ceramic Clean (without Al. Cap. Take $15 off for CPU with Lid)
$55.00 Black Fiber CPU
$20.00 Green/Brown Fiber without Heatsink
$10.00 Green Fiber with Heatsink - Pins
$7.50 Green Fiber with Heatsink - Pinless

COMPUTER/SERVER PARTS
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$0.85 Hard Drives Complete
$0.60 Hard Drives Complete (Bent, Punched, Crushed - NOT Shredded)
$0.45 Hard Drives w/o Boards
$0.45 Power Supply w/ Wire
$0.35 Power Supply w/o Wire
$0.35 Mixed Floppy/CD/DVD Drives

OTHER ITEMS
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$1.20 Laptops Complete
$0.90 Incomplete laptops (Must have Motherboard)
$0.40 AC Adapter w/ Wire
$0.30 AC Adapter w/o Wire
$0.85 Mixed Computer Wire
$0.40 Mixed Christmas/Holiday Wire
$1.20 Ribbon wire with ends (Must be PRESORTED from other wire)
$1.20 Cat5/6 with ends (Must be PRESORTED from other wire)
$0.00 Mixed Computer Plastic (NO METAL!)
$0.40 Clean Aluminum Heatsink
$1.05 Clean Cu/Al Heatsink (No fans, plastic or attachments)
$3.40 Silver Plated Brass (Holloware and the similar. No Industrial. Non Magnetic)
$0.00 15" & 17" LCD [per POUND] DESKTOP LCD MONITORS - with or without BASE - BASE - No screen bleeding, gouges, Cracks, Cut cables, water damage . Must be monitor, NOT just a panel
$0.50 19"+ LCD [per UNIT] DESKTOP LCD MONITOR - with or without BASE - No screen bleeding, gouges, Cracks, Cut cables, water damage . Must be monitor, NOT just a panel
-$.10/lb LCD Monitor Scrap (LCD monitors that fail testing are considered scrap and charged at $.10/lb)
$0.50 Laptop Screens [per UNIT] Must be in case, pass light test, be in tact, no bleeding, water damage or cracks. ... Cut wire/bad screen -$0.25/lb (CHARGE) - All Netbooks Screens are Scrap. Please do not send them unless you plan on paying the recycling fee.


BATTERIES (CAREFULLY READ!! CRITERIA BELOW)
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$0.50 Li Ion Laptop Cell 18650 (NO Swollen Batteries. Exposed terminals MUST be taped)
$0.30 Li Ion Cell Phone Batteries (NO Swollen Batteries. Exposed terminals MUST be taped)
$0.30 Li Ion Polymer - Laptop, Tablet and Cell (NO Swollen Batteries. Exposed terminals MUST be taped) (No ECIG or Lithium Compound batteries!)
$0.40/lb NiMh
-$.15/lb SWOLLEN BATTERIES ARE A CHARGE ITEM
-$.40 CHARGE Terminal Tape Fee
-$.10/lb CHARGE NI CD (Dry Cell)

Prices are subject to change without notice.
Pricing is determined by date of RECEIPT of material unless otherwise noted.

Anything else, send us an email: info@CashForComputerScrap.com Thanks

How do I go about driving a shipment out , I've been saving a lot of e waste, and I'm planning on loading up my car I just bought and taking a road trip out to ohio.

Okay Wisescrapalot :P I was more so talking, like can I just show up or do I have to let them know I'm coming or what.

Originally Posted by Kochy

Okay Wisescrapalot :P I was more so talking, like can I just show up or do I have to let them know I'm coming or what.

You do need to call or contact (email) them and set up a delivery time so that way there is not a semi there unloading the same time you are. That way an employee can devote time to properly weigh up your load.

I dropped off another shipment to be sent out Monday and just wanted to remind folks how awesome their chat feature is, I had to bug the poor folks twice this time with questions/issues and they were just super nice and gracious and super de dooper helpful as always even though I feel my questions were probably small/silly in the grand scheme of things.

Originally Posted by newattitude

I dropped off another shipment to be sent out Monday and just wanted to remind folks how awesome their chat feature is, I had to bug the poor folks twice this time with questions/issues and they were just super nice and gracious and super de dooper helpful as always even though I feel my questions were probably small/silly in the grand scheme of things.

My thoughts exactly. Great buyer to do business with.

I've shipped out a couple of loads. The first went very smoothly.

Ran into some problems with the second load. FedEx picked it up last Monday. On Friday i got e-mails saying that it had been received,processed, and paid out. The value recovered was less than expected so i logged in to view the report.

It [U]appears[U] that a fair amount of malware was loaded onto my pc when i opened the report. It was obvious so i shut everything down and cleaned out all of the nasties. It's pure speculation but my best guess would be that his system got hacked from outside and it exploited a weakness somewhere in my web browser.

Later ... i logged on with a hardened machine and didn't have any problems viewing the recovery report. It seems as though there were a couple of problem areas in the report:

Problem area 1: I sent in a package of CD/DVD boards that i didn't receive credit for.

Possible cause: Could be anything from human error to lost in transit.

Solution: In the future include a packing slip listing all of the items shipped.

Problem area 2: It gets a bit complicated with eproms,IC chips,old processors that aren't easily identifiable, and gold connectors. It's a judgement call on the part of the person taking the items in as to their value. It's a bit of a mystery as to what they're looking for and what the fair value of those items would be. There's potential for problems. If the person on the other end makes a bad call you could get burned. A bad call could just as easily end up hurting Mario's company if they over pay. Either way it's bad for everyone involved over the long run.

Solution: KISS it ! ( Keep it simple Sam)

Don't ship those items.

Just focus on shipping the things that are easily identified like main boards,memory,common processors, HDD boards, CD/DVD boards etc. Be mindful of your shipping costs per pound. If it costs 75 cents a pound to ship something but it only has a value of 20 cents a pound you're losing 55 cents a pound on that item.

Ship the higher value items and sell the lower value things at the local scrapyard when it makes sense to do so.

Bottom line: ewasted has an excellent reputation for customer satisfaction here. I'm impressed ...i'm trying to incorporate some of the things that i've learned from his example into my own business and step it up a notch.

This may just be a " One off " kinda thing. Mistakes get made and things go wrong sometimes. We don't know the whole situation.

It's better to focus on preventing problems and misunderstandings in the future.

I'm pretty careful about the sorting.

It does get complicated with the cpu's because some of the older ones are hard to identify. Here's just a rough example of how i do them:

1: aluminum cap, pinless, goes into one bag

2: Aluminum cap w/ pins another baggie

3: Green fiber , solder in type, another baggie

4: 386 & 486 another baggie and so on.

All of these individual baggies go into larger zip lock bag. That way when the sorter on the other end pulls it out of the box they know they're dealing with processors. For me: It gets complicated when i'm dealing with the older Mac main boards . There are a variety of solder in kinds that could be higher value but they're difficult to sort according to type.

The eproms and IC's are a bit simpler. Coarse leg eproms & IC's go in one zip lock bag. The fine leg IC's go in another zip lock bag. Both of those bags go into a larger zip lock bag so that when the sorter at the other end pulls it out of the box they know they're dealing with things that fall under the category of eproms.

To be honest, i don't think sorting was the problem. I weighed the big bag of eproms before i shipped them.The value recovered report listed the weight of eproms received on their end and we both were within 1/100th of a pound of each other.

The problem was the buy price. There was a huge difference between the buy price of eproms on my first order and the buy price on my second order. The reason for this is not clear ...................

I left a message for them listing my concerns late Friday but don't expect to hear back till sometime during regular business hours on Monday. I don't see how they could sort this one out once everything has been dumped into their respective bins at the other end.

I'll probably have to take the hit this time and mark it down as lesson learned for future reference.

Scrappah - " Trust but verify ! "

Seems like with prices down across the board grading gets tougher usually in the favor of the buyer.....I am having to do this here locally if not I lose money and not in biz much longer.........The value of this stuff has been on a steady decline since I joined the forum........I just hope it does not drop any further or its time to find a new line of work

I see gold on the rise back up to 1281 as of this post!!!!..........I think if the value of the metal goes back up it will take care of all our problems....LOL