Mountain of E-waste found

I was driving through my local scrap yard and in the back i spot a small mountain of various computers and parts. The owner is not doing anything with it and since I am friends with him I asked if I could have something to do with it. He replied "yeah, you tell me how we can both benefit". Less than one block away is the only scrap yard in town that takes e-waste and pays ok to low end prices. Trying to decide what to offer him. I was looking into shipping the materials but that is expensive from Kansas and could probably make the same amount and maybe more if i take to the nearby scrap yard.
Any ideas on how I should approach this would be appreciated. It is his material but it would be my labor, 50/50 fair? He paid somewhere around .15 cents/lb or less for his towers. Not sure if I should even bother with it.

i'd take a cordless out there and start ripping boards out of it, hard drives, cd/dvd and power supplies too, but the main boards, CPUs and RAM are the biggest money if time is short

if either of you have a box truck or big enough trailer load that sucker up and haul it to a better paying buyer, some buyers even get you discounted rates for trucking less than trailer loads(several pallets etc)

I have been looking into the buyers on here. Seen good referals to buyers in Texas and Arkansas but that is still a long drive.

E- Scrap prices at the nearby yard Per Pound

Printers 0.75
General/Misc. Electronics 0.75
Motherboards 1.50
High Grade Boards 1.80
Memory 7.50
CD/Floppy Drives .10
Power Supplies w/ Wire .25
Power Supplies NO WIRE .20
Computer Cables .60
Computer Wire .35
Computer CPU HIGH Grade $25-85
Computer CPU LOW Grade $4-$8
Hard Drives .60
UPS System (complete) .15 Per Pound

Those prices are pretty low. You can get much better prices from a buyer on here. I would tell the guy that you will pay him .20/lb and you will bring him the shred steel back after you strip them along with the aluminum from heat sinks and stuff. Thats a pretty sweet deal for owners because they make money on both sides of the deal and then you do also. from the things that are higher value. But I would ship the stuff to a buyer on here. I pay about .38/lb per shipping but would make over $3 more than the local offer from the scrapyard you posted.

If you spend the time to do the research on here you can turn a pretty easy profit on that stuff. Ewasted's prices are nearly double or triple on the motherboards and RAM.

most buyers on here are near $4 on motherboards. If you guys go in 50/50 and use trucking service(i've seen em get darn good prices on shipping pallets) you'll both make more than $150 lb motherboards. If one of you has a box truck, fill it up with boards and make an overnight road trip, I can't see either of you being any less than happy with the payout. Just go out there and get to work on it, if your friend is really a friend, and you both share (50/50 somehow, i.e his stuff/your knowhow, etc). in the deal, I don't see how either of you can loose either. Do work it out up front though, don't guess what he's thinking, don't guess he knows your thoughts either, even write it down, up front, to help keep a friendship a friendship

Were I in your shoes, I would offer him a 50-50 split. However, I would strip the stuff on the spot. Only haul away the really good money making material and the plastics (if you have a buyer for it), ship the boards, ram, cpu, disc drives, hard drives and finger cards to a SMF buyer, scrap the wire, aluminum, copper, electric motors, transformers etc at his yard, using his scales and leave all of the ferrous material for him to make extra money on.

That is what I would do. Just my $.02

I wish you the best of luck.

Will be meeting with the owner of the ewaste this week to talk about the details but he said he is ready for me to take over the pile. Found a driver that has a big horse trailer and is willing to drive as far as Texas for me. I will post back with what happens. Now i need to go and buy a new cordless drill.

I have used a little Makita cordless screwdriver for the last few years. I highly recommend it for tearing down e-waste. With the right bits this little guy will rip apart anything from a CD player to a server..I have a bigger "drill type"one also. I find myself using the smaller one a lot more than bigger one due to size. It is very handy for getting in small spots. If your interested The model number is td020dsew. They are an impact screwdriver and have plenty of power to tackle any e-waste you throw in front of if!!!
No, I do not work for Makita, I just like there tools. When it brakes, I am buying another one.
Happy Scrapping!!!

.75 per pound for printers?!? am I the only one that is seeing this??? It has to be .75 per printer.. no way is it per lb.

Feel free to contact either myself or Parttimescrapper if you are interested in selling that E-scrap. We have been buying locally and from the surrounding states for some time now.

Met with owner of the escrap today and he wants to go 50/50 on all that I make. I'll start tearing down everything this weekend. It might be awhile before I start unloading since I will be taking it all apart myself and only one or two days a week. Hey wanna say thanks for all the helpful info posted and the price lists that people have sent, it will help my buyer search once I am ready.

Not an advertisement but coming from someone in "A surrounding state that has worked with RecycleThis and PartTimeScrapper give them a call. the worst you will be out is a phone call and you could miss a really fun time that could pay well! JMHO KrazyJ

Since your are local, I would be glad to meet with you & let you know what I know about grading & which buyers I would use.