Mountain of E-waste found - Page 2

I wish I could get .75 lb or even .75 per printer in my area. Better yet the .75 for general would be great also. I get a ton of VCR, Radio's, TVs, etc. that have low grade boards in them. I mostly just pull copper out when I have time and the rest is trash. None of the local yards will take ewaste of any sort. Printers/monitors I can get all day long for free from people if had a good place to recycle them.

Correction on printer price they are $0.075 per pound which is the same price they pay for shred.

Originally Posted by MetalEarthRecycling

Correction on printer price they are $0.075 per pound which is the same price they pay for shred.

Will they still honor the previous price for loads we've already shipped??

If you still have them, I'd be interested in working a deal with you on the hard drives; or, if you're scrapping them out, on the magnets and backing plates out of them. I'm Okla. and could come get them after the 1st. I okay'd if for other members to e-mail me; so, I'm hoping that you can just click on my user name.

wow! i hope i didn't scare him off with that last remark lol ; )

he is your friend, and a valuable businesses contact. 50/50 is the way to go. you dont havde to go to 100 places to get them, and you dont have to load the shred and drive to the yard.

talk to the buyers in the buyers section, they are very helpful, and they can get you dicounts on shipping. you should be able to get roughly DOUBLE what the local ewaste buyer is offering after paying for shipping.

hard drives most likely wont be worth shippingafter you take the boards off the back, but definately take them off. depending on how much total weight they might be worth shipping, but you need to compare buyers price-shipping cost to what the yard will get for dirty aluminum. make sure you put them in the dirty alum pile for your friend.

make sure you take the ram and cpu's off the boards in several posts it is stated that, as a general rule, anything on a board that is noy soldered should come off.

again, talk to the buyers

I broke down somewhere around 100 desktops so far. stockpiling most of it and separating everything. I have sent off one 50lb box of motherboards and gold finger cards to a reputable buyer from this site. Still waiting on the check, but everything is going good and the owner of the computers just told me he has another semi trailor full of computers for me to take over. If there just wasnt so many monitors, noone takes them around here. Still trying to find out how to get rid of them properly for him without costing $$.

price em like you did the printers! ; ) I'd almost bet the goodwill/dell take was gov't sponsored, yep, our tax dollars behind it, but that might be a good place to look either way ?