Originally Posted by
CopperMiner
For your information, I spoke again today to the ewaste buyer I mentioned earlier. He doesn't ship ewaste to the States, but it doesn't sell to the smelter neither. He gotta go by a wholesale buyer, because it seems that smelters require full truckloads to do business with. It is a commercial buyer and they consider him too small for them. That confirm two points. First of all, getting a 53ft truckload of PCBs is A LOT(this is at least 26 gaylords). In that context, one has no choice to resell them to a consolidator, unless you can build your truckload by buying inventory from other buyers / scrap yards. Secondly, that confirms that at least one low profile Canadian ewaste buyer connected to the smelters exists somewhere. Finally, ewaste is not what it used to, but it also seem hard to see where I can get a profitable space in the niche in that context.
The basic idea is developing a clientele that will provide recyclable electronics consistently, having space to accumulate gaylords of commodities and, most importantly, fixing? upgrading and reselling enough electronics and components that you are not under pressure to sell your scrap until you have sufficient volume to sellto the refinery. If you want to go that way I mean. It's a consistently successful model that is not dependent upon scrap values. Full scrap gaylords you might source elsewhere are a bonus, not the bedrock which is greater than scrap value sales.
wrxdustin 
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