$$$ Buying Electronic precious metal scrap! $$$

**BumpRacerX** · 07-20-2012, 04:16 PM

Originally Posted by Recyclotrops

It took me forever to finally break it down and get it packed in boxes, mostly due to my own laziness, but my first load made it to the FedEx drop-off point today. Two boxes totalling about 150 lbs. of material. I hope I have it all prepared, packaged, and secured to make it worthwhile for both me and Ewasted. So far my experience with Ewasted and his staff has been awesome. I did use his prepaid shipping service, and it saved me about 30%. His staff even gave me some pointers on how I can save another 15% if I package it differently next time.

I will follow up in this thread for any onlookers who are interested in a review from someone who has only been doing this for a few weeks. I am pretty much a newb at this and this will be my first load of e-waste sold to anyone. There are a couple of local buyers, but Ewasted's prices are better, even after I deduct the shipping costs. Fingers crossed for a good payday.

What were the shipping pointers? I'm prepping a large load to ship, and curious about this.

**Recyclotrops** · 07-20-2012, 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by BumpRacerX

What were the shipping pointers? I'm prepping a large load to ship, and curious about this.

They said to keep the boxes at 65 lbs or less to avoid the oversized package fee. I had two boxes, one was 75 pounds the other was 80 pounds. I could have saved some money by using three boxes. Who knew.