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    In my centuries of running a Computer Repair shop, I have found that many PC problems are like my Uncle Ernie. Uncle Ernie was just fine yesterday; today he is lying dead on the living room floor. Everything breaks sometimes. The PC was probably already on the brink of having an issue; it just happened when opening CFCs's report. Their site is very simple and the reports are straightforward, too. I'm not saying Scrappah didn't have a problem, I just think it was ready to happen anyway. Just my Humble Opinion.
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    Should I seperate older gold ram from the newer ones to mnake more money?

    Also should I remove mylar wires from CD/DVD boards before I try to sell them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by happyisthealero View Post
    Should I seperate older gold ram from the newer ones to mnake more money?

    Also should I remove mylar wires from CD/DVD boards before I try to sell them?
    Hello
    Memory only needs to be sorted by type: Gold, Silver, Rambus, Blanks
    Remove the mylar wire from CD/DVD boards.
    Thanks!

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    do you buy lithium laptop batteries and cell phone batteries?

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    I'm not Ewasted, but he did accept cell phone batteries. I shipped some to him once, an he paid me for them.

    Tape the contacts. Bad things happen when they touch during transport. You know, fire, falling planes, not good business.

    I think I had to email for a price on the cell batteries, an I can't remember what I got for them tho.

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    You know, I would love it if the CFCS website had a best practices or what you need to know to ship. Cover things like separating items, and using bags. Things like CD boards and large slot motherboards go together. Where do floppy drive, zip drive, tape drive boards go? Maybe pictures of what qualifies as what?

    I've learned these things through asking questions and some frustration/making mistakes. Mario is great, and I will NOT be taking my scrap anywhere else. But it took some time and pain to learn how to work the best way. And I'm glad to hear I'm not alone. I believe most of the answers are in this thread. But surely, a new person isn't expected to read 60+ pages of reviews before the first shipment (90% are just great job with no new information).

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    Quote Originally Posted by foobar View Post
    You know, I would love it if the CFCS website had a best practices or what you need to know to ship. Cover things like separating items, and using bags. Things like CD boards and large slot motherboards go together. Where do floppy drive, zip drive, tape drive boards go? Maybe pictures of what qualifies as what?

    I've learned these things through asking questions and some frustration/making mistakes. Mario is great, and I will NOT be taking my scrap anywhere else. But it took some time and pain to learn how to work the best way. And I'm glad to hear I'm not alone. I believe most of the answers are in this thread. But surely, a new person isn't expected to read 60+ pages of reviews before the first shipment (90% are just great job with no new information).
    Lol, even though I've read tons of threads, when I sort the ONLY thing I AM sure about is motherboards. I can't tell a small socket from a large socket and heck, they might consider something a MB that never came out of a computer tower! So I put all the MB's in one box, finger cards in another and covered with layer of newspaper and put the bagged items on top of those. another box held the rest of the ''I don't have a friggin clue how or what these are considered I just know they aren't low grade'' lmao.


    **Another great transaction - shipment went out Monday, was received Tuesday am and processed by Wednesday. That might have been the fastest one yet!! Thanks again Mario and crew!!

    Cindy

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    Quote Originally Posted by newattitude View Post
    Lol, even though I've read tons of threads, when I sort the ONLY thing I AM sure about is motherboards. I can't tell a small socket from a large socket and heck, they might consider something a MB that never came out of a computer tower! So I put all the MB's in one box, finger cards in another and covered with layer of newspaper and put the bagged items on top of those. another box held the rest of the ''I don't have a friggin clue how or what these are considered I just know they aren't low grade'' lmao.

    **Another great transaction - shipment went out Monday, was received Tuesday am and processed by Wednesday. That might have been the fastest one yet!! Thanks again Mario and crew!!

    Cindy
    I do mostly pc towers and desktops because they're the easiest things to deal with in regards to recycling the whole thing.

    If you look they'll give you all kinds of little clues as to the age of the machine. Pull the cd/dvd and there's usually a date of manufacture. The hard drives oftentimes have a date as well. You can go by the little sticker on the front. It might say windows 98, win me, xp, vista, or 7. You can look at the ram chips. If they have silver/tin fingers they're fairly old. If they have gold fingers and are pc-100 they are a little newer. A lot of the middle aged machines are pc-3200 through pc-6400.

    You can look at the heat sink and fan sitting on top of the processor. As a rough rule of thumb it's small socket if it's got a big heat sink. Sometimes there's a date of manufacture on the processor itself.

    I remember back when i bought my first PC. It was probably sometime in the mid to late 80's and cost over 1,600 $. The reason they were so expensive back then was because they had more precious metals in them. As the years went by the manufacturers got really good at building a better machine at lower cost. Part of the reason for the lower cost is that there's much less precious metal used to make them. That means less to salvage when they get scrapped out.

    In a very broad way the machines made before 2001 are apt to have more goodies inside.

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    There are plenty of threads and stickies in the electronics section here on SMF. There are some awesome breakdowns that people here put together with pictures to give new members as well old members a good starting point to get acquainted with ewaste.

    Beyond these tools you are going to have to contact a buyer and maybe send a picture to see how they grade boards. Not every buyer will grade the same.

    As far as sending material ask yourself how you would want to receive a box of ewaste from a customer.
    Hundreds of different boards thrown into a box or a box with ten bags containing the different boards grouped together. The easier you make it for the buyer the faster and more accurately they can process and pay you.
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    Another great transaction with Ewasted! Sent a pallet down last week and after being received on Tuesday it's already turned around and processed. Excellent service and processing time!

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    what are these considered?

    can I process them to make them more valuable?








    do you buy lithium laptop batteries and cell phone batteries? And how much?

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    They are regulators off of server boards. May go as finger cards may go as slot processors.

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    Should I remove the heat sinks?

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    Yes, remove the heat sinks.

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    I usually sort by the IC chips on the board. The more surface they cover on the board, quantity of ICs, etc. Seems to work out well. I'm planning to make a trip out that way next week for a hands-on education. I'll probably lose out financially (gas vs. postage) but I'm looking more for the educational aspect.

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    "IF YOU PLAN ON LEAVING US A REVIEW PLEASE PLACE IT ON THIS THREAD"

    welllllllll ummmmmm like this is something new. sent stuff in. stuff gets processed. stuff getz turned in $$$. Then, nap!

    my kinna stuff.



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    I prepped my first load .mjust need to get on my desktop and print the packing slip . Is it okay if I'm a little over on weight , I predicted 50 lbs but I might be up to 60 after all is said and done . Thanks I'm prob going to ship via FedEx , seems to be the recommended method . Thanks

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    Great transaction with Mario...mailed it off and when I looked at the payout slip, got higher price per pound than my calculation on some of the server boards...can't ask for more than that! 47.3 pounds of stuff (granted higher paying stuff, but still)...after shipping of $22.24, net was $233.10. Doesn't suck! more stuff coming to him soon!

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    i sent some stuff in and have yet to receive my payment .. i have emailed them 2 times and have not heard anything from ya'll .. and also wanting to know why i charged extra shipping .. i know this aint normal as i have dealt with em before and have not had any issues like this .. but im not happy person either !!

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