Originally Posted by
happyscraper
First, when it comes to tv's I found a guy that brakes down tv's for the copper so I give all my tv's and momitors to him and he gives me all the boards and he gets rid of the tubes. It's like getting free low grade boards, I take all the ic chips and heat sinks off. I have never found a brown board in a computer tower. Red,blue,gold and green, brown boards are always low grade. I sell all my higher grade boards to Ewasted, you'll find him in the buyers section and he has about the best prices. If you have a buyer local to you bring him some of the boards you have and ask him to hel sort them, every buyer has diffrant sorting. I hope this helps a little, good luck with your bussness. Looks like your well on your way.
Thank you very much. I do want to speak with this local buyer to see if his prices (with the shipping I would have to pay for ewasted's pricing) are competitive and to see how he sorts. I don't know if I can find someone who does something with the TVs like you have going on, but that would be an awesome setup.
Originally Posted by
olddude
not trying to b an a** but, every single question you asked I found on the forum. yup its a pain in the butt, but its called paying the dues. it has taken me a year to learn what little I know about E waste. chasing
ewaste , in my opinion, is chasing a dead horse. like get rich quick catolytic converters a few years back, every one and all their cousins is getting into it. it is a finite commodity due to the price of gold. new tech is here to avoid expensive gold as much as they can. just my .02
Thanks. I don't think you're being an a**. I have learned a TREMENDOUS amount from searches, but sometimes it's difficult due to the amount of threads there are on similar subjects. A lot of the time you guys don't go into the basics because you are experienced. I'm going to continue searching to find my answers. If you don't feel like supplying them for me because performing some searches is "paying my dues", that's completely understood. My other intention was to show my intentions for my business, my starting point/starting load and a few comments. Not just my questions.
I also don't understand your second part of your comment. Are you saying that you feel it's not a good business model to run because there's a finite amount of
e-waste to collect due to how many things aren't made with the gold that there used to be? Maybe that's true, but I think with the amount of 'junk' electronics out there, I would still have a lot of time before I run out of my finite supply. In time I could change my business model if this is something I find as being true.
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