new customer, going to be tough.

been workin on my a scrap yard for over a year. they were never interested in e scrap, but have a new young lion with some decision making power.

been selling him my hard drive seperated scrap for float money.

the other day he wanted me to sell him my boards, I told him I probably could buy his. This got the typical responce. ( a holeyer then thou attitude). so I told him I would bring some boards down for him to look at knowing he would not come close to a realistic price.

off I went with an assortment of goodies. and just happened to have 3 pallets of servers and one of whole hard drives on the truck for a little intimidation factor.



so I arive and he brings outy some boards. 1 power supply board. one good mother board , a chinese blue board and a faded tan tv board.

I asked him what he was paying for the low grade board, he tells me .15 to .25. so I did a little educating.
and he asked what I paid for boards I quoted some prices where I could make a little money and his responce was, man I can't buy your boards.

I told him I was searious when I said I could probably buy your boards I was nor blowing smoke. sooooo he takes me inside to a 3/4 full gaylord and says He gets about one a month.

Here is the problem: they are all mixed boards. radio. tv. mid grade and mother boards Chinese and American. and wants me to make a bid.

Any one got any ideas how in H IM going to make a bid on this mess ?

Well since he is a scrap yard pay him the lowist grade. If you bring a load of extruded and sheet aluminium they sure as heck are going to pay you the lowist grade for the most part. He should understand the mixed load concept for sure.

I had a yard with the same thing. They had 8 full gaylords. I spent a good bit of time seperating them all and we split the profit after shipping off to my buyer.

My point here though is in the mix that was there. Just grabbing a 10% sample will not get you anywhere. They were basically layered where nothing but crap with maybe 5% good stuff until we got half way through the box tehn it flipped to 40% good stuff for a foot or so then back to bad, then a layer of high grade telecom ........you get the picture. Next gaylord looked great on top, but maybe only had 10% good stuff all the way through.

I would offer him a price per pound for your various grades, then seperate it and weigh it right there at the facility.

Good luck on this one. Hoping for the best for you.

If you know what ou pay for low grade and what you pay for high grade take a chance on first load with a price somewhere in the middle. Then let him know that if he separates the boards you can pay according to the grades they are separated in. Tell him to set up three boxes, low,mid,high grade according to how you buy. A little lose up front on first box may turn into a big win down the road.

Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER

If you know what ou pay for low grade and what you pay for high grade take a chance on first load with a price somewhere in the middle. Then let him know that if he separates the boards you can pay according to the grades they are separated in. Tell him to set up three boxes, low,mid,high grade according to how you buy. A little lose up front on first box may turn into a big win down the road.

Then you have to educate the yard people on how the stuff separates and some just don't/won't learn cause it's not in their job description. Good luck if it works out.

Sometimes workers not knowing what is the good stuff keeps it from growing legs and walking away.

I would pass on the deal. One gaylord of mixed material isnt much, especially since he will want to circumvent you - almost all scrapyards do.