Am I Getting Ripped Off?? Escrap Uncertainty

Hey guys, I'm new to the forums and I'm pretty new to recycling. I've been scrapping metal for the better part of a year but have just recently gotten into e waste. I get fair and current prices at the metal yards I go to, but I'm concerned that the prices I'm getting at the Escrap place are just bare minimum of what this stuff is actually worth.
These are the prices I got yesterday at the electronics recycling facility near me.


Routers ............................ $ 0.07
Keyboards ........................ $ 0.01
Disk Drives ....................... $ 0.10
Hard Drives ....................... $ 0.45
Low Grade Boards ............. $ 0.05
LCD Monitors .................... $ 1.00
Mother Boards .................. $ 2.00
Finger Boards .................... $ 2.50
Gold Memory .................... $ 8.00
Data Plugs ......................... $ 0.15
Power Plugs ...................... $ 0.10
Green Fiber CPU ............... $ 8.00
Ceramic CPU ..................... $ 20.00


Do these prices seem fair? I've been reading through these forums and have noticed that most people are getting far better prices than this, Whether they're shipping the stuff off to another buyer states away or they're taking it in to get weighed at the yard themselves.
I've been working hard at this for awhile now and when I got my check yesterday... i dont know, I just feel like I got burned.

People talk about buying towers for $3-$6 each, I don't think I'd be able to make a profit doing that with these prices.

Any thoughts, advice, comments or criticism would help.

Originally Posted by BarrenRealms007

Hope it wasn't a lot of material, they got to you pretty good.

it wasnt the largest load, but it was enough to get upset about.
Anyway, I should have called ahead to check pricing and I should have checked SMF before hand.

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

Check out this thread for yourself so you can see the prices. Check out Ewasted, Arcoa, CLR, BarrenRealms007, easyrecycle, Relectrocycle's posts.
Those are some of our ewaste buyers and you can see for yourself.

Scrap Buyers & Sellers

Thanks, I appreciate it

Hey you could've done worse - When I first joined it was inspired by the notion that my little sister was getting ripped off by the company hosting a fundraiser. They were only getting $0.10/lb for monitors/tvs and $0.05/lb for any other electronics including computers.

uh, sry dude but if ya woulda even read one page of archive posts this would not have happend. just consider it a tax for not doin your home work. some of you are going to say, man what a pr88k that old dude is, ya might want to give that some thought. the very purpose of this forum is to prevent that.