SHould I drop the prices I pay for towers?

im hoarding personally, much as i can at least.

Just got new prices from Arcoa on monday they were up or stayed the same. If the prices went down for you maybe you should be looking around at other buyers. Most of the time if the prices go down it's only temp. the price of gold has been going down the past week ,maybe that has something to do with it, just hang in there. By the way what are you paying for the towers, if yor paying more than $5.00 maybe pring it down to around $5.00.

Prices are always going to vary. For me hoarding depends on the quantity I am bringing in. I make my monetary target each week and manage to "bank" a nice amount of more valuable scrap. And $5.00 per PC is a price I rarely go above.

The last time we took a dip I changed my price from 5 to 4. I never went back. So still OK at 4. The exception would be for quantity or charity. There is a local one here that I originally quoted $5 for and have stuck to that.

I am always wondering at what price does gold get to that the boards are worthless? $1,000 an ounce? I would love to see a buyer's spread sheet on what parts would be worth based on gold price with a breakdown every $25 or so. I don't expect to see that as everything has more factors than just the price of gold, but would be interesting to see a snapshot just once.

I agree! And since computer waste is so modular, you can easily sell the steel, MB's, PCI cards, etc. to pay for the inventory and save room; while hoarding RAM and CPU's....which are much more gold dense and simple to store.

And imagine....if a more efficient and environmentally friendly method of refining these items is developed by any of the thousands of companies and individuals tinkering in this field, prices for ewaste would climb to a higher % in relation to the spot price.

we pay an average of $3 per tower (going scrap rate) and have pick ups lined up about a week out. We adjust our board prices according to the weekly payout of our buyers. Most buyers have online pricing or our easy to get ahold if you have a ongoing business relationship with them. Doing it this way we are able to retain our same percentage regardless of where price is. If price goes down we may lose a little, if it goes up we gain a little. We dont pay the same to all of our customers, some are free pick up, some are regular pay scale, and others we have to pay a little more just to get the business.

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

I noticed prices went down across the board on escrap....If they drop any lower I will have to lower the prices I pay...Hope not I like doing escrap

Solid question! I think having a buying interval is good here. You could start your interval at $2 bucks and range up to $8bucks for newer items with DVDRW and all. I will say this, about 80% of all my computers have come by way of donation. Some people derive more utility from simply donating items for recycle than getting money.

Originally Posted by parrothead

I am always wondering at what price does gold get to that the boards are worthless? $1,000 an ounce? I would love to see a buyer's spread sheet on what parts would be worth based on gold price with a breakdown every $25 or so. I don't expect to see that as everything has more factors than just the price of gold, but would be interesting to see a snapshot just once.

Ditto!