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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 !

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

Originally Posted by KzScrapper

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

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.

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

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