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    Biggest payouts for me...

    On June 25, I got a $296 payout from ewasted. I was THRILLED! Today, I went to a local yard and I got a payment of $402!! I'm VERY happy.



    Just a quick price check:

    Aluminum Heat Sinks went as clean extruded for $0.60/lb
    Base of Hard drives went as aluminum cast $0.54/lb
    Power Supplies without wire went for $0.25/lb
    ICW#2 went for $0.60

    Oh, and be careful...they tried to say my gold finger cards were "low grade" because they had capacitors on them. I politely asked the yard manager for a second opinion and wound up getting Motherboard pricing for them. I had taken off all metal on the ends where you attach it to the computer case (sorry, cant' think of what that is called).

    I got high grade pricing for DVD/CDROM boards.

    I did take a lot of low grade boards in and they only paid $0.08 a pound. I'll be taking them to the other yard I use from now on...at least they pay $0.10 a pound for them and they are closer.

    Oh, my stuff was very clean and they were very thankful for it. At the end of the weigh in, I was given a tour so I could see exactly how they like the stuff brought in. It was very helpful!

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    How did you get the items to ewasted? Via USPS? What was the cost.? Also,how much did your total lot weigh?
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    Sorry...was out with the family.

    I boxed it all up, went to his website and requested a prepaid fedex label. The actually amount I was owed was $350 something, maybe a little more, but after deducting the freight and paypal fees, the amount I made was $296 or so. It was about 100 or so pounds total in two boxes and cost about $45 or so to ship. I'm in Wisconsin. Geographic location affects fedex pricing.

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    Sweet deal. So u averaged $3 lb. And I'm sorry for not asking more politely.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mudlucky View Post
    On June 25, I got a $296 payout from ewasted. I was THRILLED! Today, I went to a local yard and I got a payment of $402!! I'm VERY happy.

    Just a quick price check:

    Aluminum Heat Sinks went as clean extruded for $0.60/lb
    Base of Hard drives went as aluminum cast $0.54/lb
    Power Supplies without wire went for $0.25/lb
    ICW#2 went for $0.60

    Oh, and be careful...they tried to say my gold finger cards were "low grade" because they had capacitors on them. I politely asked the yard manager for a second opinion and wound up getting Motherboard pricing for them. I had taken off all metal on the ends where you attach it to the computer case (sorry, cant' think of what that is called).

    I got high grade pricing for DVD/CDROM boards.

    I did take a lot of low grade boards in and they only paid $0.08 a pound. I'll be taking them to the other yard I use from now on...at least they pay $0.10 a pound for them and they are closer.

    Oh, my stuff was very clean and they were very thankful for it. At the end of the weigh in, I was given a tour so I could see exactly how they like the stuff brought in. It was very helpful!
    Sounds like you figured out the money making equation. If I make $500 on shred, I usually get about $600 for everything else. Keep up the good work.
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    Don't remove those brackets and you can ship to your buyer for more than motherboard pricing.
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    Say more, parrothead. At least the price lists on hear pay more when you remove the brackets. The price I got at the yard today was very comparable to the prices here with out brackets. Did I miss a buyer paying higher than motherboards with the bracket?? Very likely! I'm going to go look again...

    Thanks!!

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    motherboard pricing still seems very low for cleaned finger cards
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