No doubt. Terapeak has kept me from selling something for $20 when I can get hundreds for it too many times to count. That's not to mention how it helps me buy things at rock bottom prices instead...
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No doubt. Terapeak has kept me from selling something for $20 when I can get hundreds for it too many times to count. That's not to mention how it helps me buy things at rock bottom prices instead...
Not sure. She said it was to raise money to help with the education of some African tribe. But, she did not know the name of the tribe, and she had little details to every simple question we asked...
About a week ago I go to a call where the lady had a tractor trailer full, and a couple of out buildings full, of e-waste. Most of it came from a local hospital and somehow it got donated to her...
Scientists are now saying that the sky may fall by the end of the month. Be prepared.
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Yeah, I call three or four different yards before I take a load anywhere, and they all pretty much pay comparably low prices around here. I suppose my average load of a few hundred pounds makes me a...
I wanted to do a simple experiment and share my results. I started with 25 standard 6' power cables from computer towers and monitors. They were all slightly different and not exactly the same make...
I think that depends on your specific yard. My yard takes them as #2 insulated and they do require me to clip the ends off, otherwise they will downgrade it to low recovery. I also think many...
I'd like to re-open this discussion and ask, what do you do with the stuff you take off the boards? Do you take all the little do-hickeys off the aluminum heatsinks, or sell it as "dirty" aluminum? ...
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I've watched all the videos in this thread, and I thank Copper Head for providing them. However, I still fail to see how this is an e-waste problem that abundant western cultures have dumped on poor...
Bear - I agree some of the waste may come from Western countries. But, I think the Western infrastructure for recycling materials probably exeeds that of many Eastern or African cultures, thus...
It is my belief that these propaganda videos are made by huge e-cycle outfits trying to discourage smaller players and to push public sentiment about e-waste in a certain direction. I DO NOT believe...
I've been to three different yards locally, and they all do the same thing. When I give them a copper and aluminum heat sink, they pay me a dirty aluminum price. It's usually like $0.18-$0.25 or...
Following up with the shipment that I sent last week. The check arrived today, exactly one week after I shipped the material. Actually, a bit less than a week, since I didn't drop it off until late...
I would guess three boxes for that load. It sounds similar to mine. I was informed that FedEx charges an oversized load fee if the box weighs more than 65 lbs. So, keep each one under 65 lbs. ...
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. ...
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....
No, I bought the load for about $200. I've done some more tallying and there was about 1500 lbs of steel and other ferrous. I took most of the load into the yard already, just not the power...
So far the tally is about 72 lbs. of motherboards, dual socket boards, and finger cards. A little over a pound of RAM, a pound of processors, and a pound of slot processors. The gem was a Pentium...
About 3 weeks ago, I began marketing on CL to buy e-waste. The phone has been going nuts with calls that would lead to little or no profit. For example, the laptop I can buy for $1000 that only has...
I just dealt with this last week. I had the exact same scenario, a laptop I took in as scrap was working and better than my current laptop, so I wanted to keep it. The problem was that it had a...
I think that's how it shows up on your receipt the day that you drop them off. You may have to wait a few weeks to get the credit via email, which is good for a future purchase. That's how it...
Ahhh...Something I can help someone with. PITA = Pain In The Arse
I have introduced myself, and been encouraged to contribute. I am fairly new to e-cycling, and don't have much knowledge to contribute about "how to" do anything properly. So, instead I am going to...
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