Motherload but need some advise

**emeeks** · 02-20-2014, 05:41 PM

Ah, good find then.

Here in Hawaii, it's illegal to charge for recycling electronics. Unless it's a "reasonable" pickup fee. So, whatever my cost is, is what I charge them.

**auminer** · 02-20-2014, 06:07 PM

For 600 computers, it would be worth setting yourself up with a one-month rental on a storage unit, a Uhaul truck on the big day, and a day-worker to lend a hand... errr... back.

I would not 'hire' a friend for two reasons: Your friend won't work as hard as an 'employee', and he just might start getting the notion that the arrangement is a partnership. A day-worker won't be expecting anything more than the price you agreed up front, plus possibly a free lunch.

You figure:
$200 for the storage unit max
Uhauls in my area are 40 bucks a day plus a buck a mile for 20ft+ cargo
a day-worker... I don't even know. Make it an even hundred. That's what it would take here.

That's $400... even call it $500 if you maybe need to buy some drill bits, lunch, etc misc... that's a $500 input to the deal.

You work your day-guy all day helping you tear down, then you spend a good chunk of your month getting all 600 machines torn down. Money will trickle in slowly to help calm you down... you'll be hauling the cases to your yard. Even at just 10 pounds of steel apiece, that's 6000 pounds total. Which would fetch $540 bucks at my usual yard. Congrats. You're up 40 bucks already! Put that 40 bucks in your gas tank, and then go tear apart what's left for what should be another four, possibly five thousand bucks.