Quote Originally Posted by hills View Post
It seems pretty straightforward.

You know your per pound shipping costs to Boardsort. Deduct that number from what they're paying to get your net profit. Compare that to what you are getting locally.

Just a hypothetical example:

You're getting .12/lb for a power supply w/o wires from Boardsort. Say shipping costs are .60/lb. It would be costing you .48/lb for the privilege of selling to them. You would be better off to sell the PSU's locally and make a gross profit of .07 per pound.

For whatever it's worth, i tend to do as you do. Ship the higher value stuff and keep the low value stuff local.

The only way i can see to ship the low value items would be to ship by the pallet load and get your cost waay down. Even then ... the numbers might not work.

Yep, thats why I was going to this local place to see what things might be worth just taking here instead of mailing off.

The RAM and the finger cards are for sure better to mail off as I can fit a bunch of them in a flat rate box and send it off. The motherboards seem like I would make sense to mail them off, but I would have to save up and keep around enough to get a pallet load to justify/make shipping them a better price. I was kinda hoping that the local place would have prices much closer to the online places prices for motherboards, but they are nowhere close.... oh well... thats how it goes sometimes