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    What kind of price you guys getting for computer ribbon cable

    Was offered .25 cents/lb should I take it



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    I get #2 insulated price which was $1.25 lb the last time I sold. That was with the ends cut off.
    Iron Mike's say's $1.12
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    Really mabye I'll just take it in with my other copper next time and see

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    The yard I deal with normally does not take it at all. I have another yard to check with, its just building up for now, Mike.
    "Profit begins when you buy NOT when you sell." {quote passed down to me from a wise man}

    Now go beat the copper out of something, Miked

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    Yeah the yard I took a sample of it to said they might give .10 cents a lb but really didn't want it....An individual who buys electronic scrap locally offered me this price

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    I mix all my wires I pull out of and around desktop computers, including power, a/v, ethernet/phone, ribbon with connectors cut off, wires cut off from desktop power supplies etc. Last time I got $.80/lb for the pile and it got labeled "insulated #3". I've never separating these into separate piles so don't know if I would have gotten less for just ribbon. Another buyer told me that to him ribbon is less valuable than #3.

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    well i get more than a dollar for all the rest of the wire...They consider it #2 insulated.....So I have a large box of this ribbon stuff left over....Isn't it funny how stuff is so different in each area

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    were getting .85 /# for it

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    im getting .66 a pound

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    Last time I brought it in mixed with #2 insulated got 1.25 lb for it all
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    My yard dosn't buy it and if I mix it in they will stand there and pull it all out. Another yard I deal with will pay .10 lb they call it data cable

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    #2 ins wire by me just got 1.10 lb for it in So. AZ

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    $1 # mixed with all my other ins wire here.

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    Maybe one of us should start buying it up and clean the ends off. What would be a fair price to pay considering your being offered .10 - .25 lb ??

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    I just took all my wire into the yard today.

    Ribbon cable my yards pays 25% at $.57 a pound
    Wires from inside the box and off the powersupply they call 38% and paid $.97 a pound
    Cat 5 wire was 50% and paid $1.46 a pound

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    Seems like a toss up in each region....I went ahead and sold it I'm cleaning out my shed in hopes of getting another big load soon

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    Directrecycle, are you getting .85 locally? I am only getting .25 here and we are not far from each other.

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    #2 ins... .40 a lb

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    Quote Originally Posted by drozenski View Post
    im getting .66 a pound
    Maybe I should switch to another yard. I got .63 a pound a few weeks ago at Metalico/Kreigers on Portland. Are you going to Steel St?

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    I put mine in with my #2 insulated and get a 1.00/lb.


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