MisScrapOriginally Posted by MisScrap
I sell them as #2...and am getting $1.60/lbs...I know it will change eventually but I'll enjoy it while I can!
Edit: and I leave the ends on..
I'm in NOVA where are you selling your wire at? I think it may be worth a trip north for me.
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The prices are all over the board as I suspected..........Someone is getting screwed in the long run I just don't want it to be me
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Bear i always put power cords in with my #2 insul and I leave the ends on just like any cord from appliances. The wire from power supplies also go in with #2. Ssame stuff without the heavier insulation as far as i am concerned. Ribbon cable and any real thin wire like from computer fans goes together and I get between .50 to .70 # depending on how the market is doing. Cat5, cat5e and the flat cable(sata?) i seperate from the rest. I dont come across alot of it so my yard will sometimes put it with #2 and sometimes it goes with the ribbon. Depends on who is at the scale and if I bring in bagels or donuts that morning...lol.
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I have heard you guys bribing the yard workers.......I guess I do it in my own way like one of the guys at the scale of my ferrous yard asked me for some VGA cables so I got him some.......As far as bringing donuts just not my style
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Local yard here pays $.93 a pound for any wire that comes from a computer or electronics including ribbon cable. Cat5 is like $1.50. Now on somedays depending who is on the scale I have gotten the higher price for the cheaper wire.
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mike-not a bribe just showing my appreciation....and if it gets my dirty heat sinks to go as clean who am I to complain
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I will bring snacks sometimes but wait till I'm done to give them to them.
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@.75 here but any coated wire but he takes care of me on other things he slipped on what he got for ton lol "he knows my family"
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I cut the wire off the power supplies and throw it in with my other computer wires...they go in my #2 ins. Gaylord...
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Same here, all my computer/monitor wire goes together and they pay me #2 for it 1.08lb.
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In NE PA we sell them as ins. copper wire at $1/LB. I was told by the yard manager if I cut off the plastic connectors that they would be able to do #1 ins. at $1.55/LB
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#2 ins wire by me as well. $1.00 a pound yesterday plastic ends cut off.
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I separate "power" wires (the wires off of power supplies, the plug in cords, etc..) from what my yard calls com cord, (telephone, CAT 5, ribbon cable, USB wires, etc...). I get #2 for the power wires and what they call "low" grade for the com wires.
The #2 pays me $1.20 and the low grade pays $1.10. I also get .30 for the power supplies without wires. I do leave the ends on. I just took several hundred pounds of wire in last Friday, as well as 1100+ lbs of wireless power supplies.
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First let me say this, I have never found aluminum wires in any electronics and I've been doing this for over five years. The wires from power suplies are #2 insulated and I leave plugs on. At the yards I use they call ribbin cable "data cable". One yard will not buy it and the other yard only pays .10 or .15 but my e-waste buyer pays .65#. I break down all power suplies, 1.00# for the wires, .40# for the boards, >32# for the fan (electric motor) .10# for the steel.
I sell the wire off of power supplies here with connector on as #2 for 80 cents/lb.. #3 is 40 cents/lb
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Yestarday i got 1....00 a pound went will my #2 i leave the connectors on them my ribbion wire also goes with my #2 i pull off the gold platted connerctors of that i sell my power supplys as electric motors .36 i think thats better than shiping them with my e-scrap
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The good times came to an end the other day. Power supply wire now going with ribbon cables by me. Not happy since the ps wire always went as #2 insulated. Power cables from monitors and towers also go with the above now. Only getting .50#, have to speak with the owner and get an explantion, otherwise time to go to another yard.
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Sorrry to hear it that is about what i am getting. My yard grades it as low value computer wire .65 a lb last week im sure it has gone down since then But then again my yard dosen't really deal with e waste and has told me to try and find other buyers for such items call around see if another yard can do better!
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Best I can do here in Tulsa is 0.25# for computer wire. You guys are killing it!!!
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I would work out shipping that wire to someone else if you are getting 0.25/lb for it. Even if you spend 0.50/lb on shipping, you could still make more from some yards.
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