local yard started buying escrap...

[Lawn Island Scrapper]

my favorite local yard started buy escrap... they always took electronics/circuit boards but now are specifying and buying computer scrap by the pound.....ive been hoarding most of my escrap and plan on going the ebay route when i get enough, but prices there seem very volatile, and i was hard-up for some cash yesterday so i brought the yard down 7 motherboards (removed heatsinks & cpu's) to see the prices... they paid $3.50/lb , i ended up with $28 & change and they round up to the dollar so an even $29.....was this price good/decent/bad?

[parrothead]

It is decent considering that you do not have to pay for shipping.

[easyrecycle]

$3.50 with the gold as low as it is not that bad....now the real test is...what would there pricing be when gold is up?

On a side note. If they do not know much about how the gold market and e-waste market go hand in hand...it could mean they will pay a higher price for a longer time until they go to sell and find out they messed up big time. Not all yards know what they are doing when it comes to e-waste. I have a few scrap yards both in the DFW and out of state yards who call me weekly to get the down low on e-waste but then again...I am there buyer.