Are there any good deals left...?

I think so...

This post is for those of you who's having trubles sourcing e-scrap.
I myslef in a similar situation these past few weeks... but long time ego i've learned:
Patience and a respectful attitude toward sellers is the key for great deals.

for the batch below, i had to drive 30 miles and spend 1 1/2 hours of my day.
Apparently, i was the only one that agreed to his price for the CPU's, everyone else offered him less (i know... wait for it...)
Because of that, he also offered me 13.5 lb of memory sticks, even though i couldn't give him the very better price then he could have get from other buyers. Just for agreening to his cpu's prices and some free scrapping pointers i handed out to him.






Ohh yea,,, the prices...
The CPU's - 86$, I rekon it is about 7-7.5 lb total.
The memory sticks - 35.5$ for 13.5 lb total.

So i say, do not despair.

good luck and god bless you all.

You kinda got burned on the memory as the one bag looks to be all tin memory. They are not worth as much as the gold ones but you can slowly mix them in with your gold memory and get good money on them.

Deal with silver/gold memory (with me. Don't know about other e-waste companies) as long as silver is 10% and gold 90% its all good. Other than that..it looks like you made out not to bad.

Thanks .

Easy

Are you saying you pay less then 2.62$a lb for the tinned type?


Olddude

humm, 1 1/2 hours of my time... i guess i can price that at 15-20$...
30 miles, that's forth and back, around 10-12$

Originally Posted by easyrecycle

You kinda got burned on the memory as the one bag looks to be all tin memory. They are not worth as much as the gold ones but you can slowly mix them in with your gold memory and get good money on them.

I won't even pretend to know what's what in E-waste as it hasn't really captured my attention yet, but I do recall Sam recovering precious metals himself and not sending it out, so I'm guessing he knows what he's after and has a little more wiggle room.

Originally Posted by KZBell

I won't even pretend to know what's what in E-waste as it hasn't really captured my attention yet, but I do recall Sam recovering precious metals himself and not sending it out, so I'm guessing he knows what he's after and has a little more wiggle room.

That's currect KZ.
The only E-scrap i'm processing myself are: Fingers, CPU's , Cellphone boards and memory sticks.

The rest is sold to the yard.

I don't have the quantities or setup to justify a full on, whole boards recycling.

With those limitations and the lack of space, i really have to cherry pick what i'm processing to make a living.


Though, i do demonstrate how to scrap and process some parts from mobo's and cards, it's mainly aimed toward the hobbyist refiner, which means, it's not always the most cost effective way. But sure is a lot of fun

I'm not sure i follow you here... is that sarcasm?
If so, why?

It is me who should apologize, i did not understood you Sir.
(english is not my native language, so having some difficulties with the grammer)


As to your offer, Thank you, but i'm doing OK localy.

Israel.