$$$ Buying Electronic precious metal scrap! $$$ - Page 82

Originally Posted by Ewasted

Yes. Updated prices around the corner! As always, I try to lock these numbers in as long as possible.

i hope it goes up cause im about to wrap up my 2 plus pallets ive ben working on for last 8 months.

Just received my report for my third and final pallet of the winter season. ( cha ching). I pretty much processed what I had to , I have a pallet or two in the pipeline but that might have to wait till early spring. Thanks to Mario and the crew for making this all so easy.
This bear is going into hibernation for a few weeks.....ZZZzzzzzzzz

Sent my first shipment about a week ago. Everything went pretty smooth. One tiny hiccup which was taken care of in a very timely manner. A few quick emails back and forth and I have a 2nd check for the error and difference in payout on the way. Gotta say this has been some of the friendliest and most helpful customer service I've ever dealt with. That alone gives these guys an A+ in my book. I look forward to putting another shipment together as even paying shipping, their prices blow anything local out of the water. Thanks CFCS and crew.

Sent in another two pallets and again my expectations were exceeded. Communication is prompt and so is payment.

Could you give me a little clarification on the IC/Eprom category? Does this cover any and all ic chips? Socketed, soldered? Last time I was in I had 43 lbs. of all types of ic chips and they got tossed in to the mid grade low category at .25/lb.

Nice Prices. You will probably be getting my materials in about a week or two. I was offered high numbers a few weeks ago by a company out of Florida that had a warehouse in Memphis. The sales rep sounded very uncertain when talking about scrap. Well to make a long story short they were going to get a couple pallets from me until they retracted their first set of numbers and wouldn't quote any prices on scrap materials aside from processors. Are these numbers stable?

I have PC and Server hard drives, 60 - 100 pieces. Would I get the best price if I remove and separate the hard drive boards from the drives and send in both as separate pieces or if I send in the complete drive?

Originally Posted by escraperguy

I have PC and Server hard drives, 60 - 100 pieces. Would I get the best price if I remove and separate the hard drive boards from the drives and send in both as separate pieces or if I send in the complete drive?

It says
$13.50 Hard Drive Boards
and
$0.65 Hard Drives Complete
$0.20 Hard Drives w/o Boards

You would get the most for taking the boards off. and if you ONLY have these few items, it would make sense to probably just send him the boards and take the hard drives w/o boards to a local scrapyard as irony aluminum

This is because to get the most money, you'll want to seperate, but after seperating, you only get $0.20/lb for the hdd without the board, hdd are heavy and it will likly cost more than $0.20/lb to ship them.

So, if it were me. Boards come of and get mailed and will be pretty cheap since they are small and light. and then the remaining drives without boards take to local place and avoid shipping costs which would likly exceed their value

I have probably ~500 drives that I am sitting on waiting to take the boards off of.... the screws are just so tiny and its so time consuming!

To add to what Mikeinreco said If I may, Ewasteds prices are very , very good .But as Mikeinreco said he is basing his prices by some formulation of the market pricing for precious metals. But if your timing is bad and he posts a newer , lower ( or higher) price sheet before your pallets hits the dock the current posted price is what he pays you. He usually holds prices pretty stable for some time though . I don't think only one time did he lower the price as my shipment was in transit but hey, it's all good. I cannot give enough praise to his outfit- they are TOP SHELF IMHO. he does not play games with pricing- what you see is what it is, and his grading is always spot on.

Do you pay higher prices for boards that are gold based?
( meaning the metal under the green 'paint' is gold plated, NOT copper or stainless )

Hi.
We are a solid waste authority in WV, and have been collecting misc electronics for over a year, and our previous buyer retired. We would like for someone to take all 13,000lbs of it, and just leave us our boxes and pallets. We're located at 26147. A bit of everything, and we don't have the time to process it ourselves. We're just trying to keep it out of the landfill.
Cabot Recycling Station, 2427 w. little kanawha hwy, grantsville wv 26147