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Originally Posted by eesakiwi

I have a feeling that WiFi boards is something that can attract 'higher than escrap prices'.
Something to do with some WiFi boards being of a better quality/higher baud rates/recyclable.

There's a sub market in China where they buy specific parts and use them to make new items.
The little LCD screens, WiFi boards, tablets, CCD cameras from laptops.
They figure out what they want to make, find escrap with the required parts and buy it, make the item and sell it domestically.
Once they have a buying market for their item, they may start buying brand new parts, much cheaper in bulk, and manufacture for a export market.

The best example I have of this is a family business that made scrolling LED message boards/advertising signs.
They used a certain chip out of a certain cellphone to control the board.
When the cellphone was manufactured the makers needed a certain programme to control the Text message setup.
They found it was cheaper to just buy a existing proven standalone chip and use that in the phone, the time saving in development ment they could sell a new function in a cellphone earlier than their rivals.
Of course next year the programs/chip was incorporated into other chips in the phone.

The sign maker used this chip,, recycled its cheaper than the new chip, manufactured the signs using other recycled parts for a domestic market, made a profit, set up the manufacturing plant, grew it to the point they could export and was able to get better prices for new parts in the long run.

Bingo, I work with manufacturers overseas who do EXACTLY this. Not everything I'm buying has a ebay market, but some of the strangest things have a remanufacturing purpose.

To the OP of this thread. Why would anyone on the forum want to give you the recipe for success when the old timers are already in the thick of things? No offense to the folks that have been here on the forum for a long time.

To the OP of this thread. Have you done your homework? Are you sure on your yields from a certain type on PCB ?

To the OP is your pockets deep enough to withstand a dramatic down turn in the metals market?

My advice to everyone is to be a high grader or a so called cherry picker in your scrap processing.

No disrespect to the buyers here on the forum but if the members here on the forum think that the buyers are basing the buying price they pay for scrap is based on the spot price they are being gulliable.

Originally Posted by eastky

To the OP of this thread. Why would anyone on the forum want to give you the recipe for success when the old timers are already in the thick of things? No offense to the folks that have been here on the forum for a long time.

To the OP of this thread. Have you done your homework? Are you sure on your yields from a certain type on PCB ?

To the OP is your pockets deep enough to withstand a dramatic down turn in the metals market?

My advice to everyone is to be a high grader or a so called cherry picker in your scrap processing.

No disrespect to the buyers here on the forum but if the members here on the forum think that the buyers are basing the buying price they pay for scrap is based on the spot price they are being gulliable.

Would love to see more paid members as well as buyers to this forum such as yourself

Originally Posted by eastky

Mike I live in Lynch Ky in Harlan county. I will be a buyer here on the forum soon. I just need to get things in order first.

COOL Competition is always good......The minimal cost of being a paid member here is def worth it