Quote Originally Posted by F350scrapper View Post
I dont see why people would ship it? The 16 to 30 cents per pound you must pay per pound is seriously cutting into your profit. Why dont you just save up and bring to location? Personally its a $350 in gas round trip for me. But I figure I will bring down 600-1000 pounds of the good stuff(motherboards and finger boards and memory). Now this may seem stupid becasue at 30 cents a pound it only adds up to 180 in shipping. Well if you account for bulky items such as laptops,PS's,Disk drives and so on it works since you cant ship 700 ounds of them economically.

Just my opinion what you guys think?
Keep it simple

Figure out what it is costing you to ship it. For me it usually is right around $.50 a pound for a 60 something pound box. If you have the 700 pounds you speak of I gotta believe that cost is closer to $.30 than $.50 using gaylords, pallets, or trucking of some sorts.



You say it costs $350 in gas for round trip. My way of adding in wear and tear on vehicle is to double the gas. Then consider your time. What is it costing you per pound to bring it in yourself? 700 pounds /$700 expenses + your time is like a $1+ per pound shipping.

I take my shipping costs ($.50) off of the prices for the ship-to location and compare them to the full price of the local e-scrap yard. Whichever is higher, gets the scrap.