Hello from Northern Wisconsin!

First welcome to the forum. The answers to your questions and much more are located in the old threads of this forum. I say this because I like you joined this forum and found many ways to profit by reading the old threads. Start with the electronics section, the buyers section and how to break down things section. I live no where near my ewaste buyer and I am able to ship and make money. Then take to time to read the rest, you just never know what you will learn and profit. Mike.

As far as being rural, just keep accumulating until you have enough to ship.

Or till you have enough for a road trip, Your not that far from North Chicago. (Arcoa)
http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/scrap...locations.html

Here's the current price sheet for them, First price is dated 6-18-12 and the second is 6-25-12

AC Adapter $0.30 $0.30
AC Adapter - No Cords $0.20 $0.20
Ballasts (No PCB's) $0.08 $0.08
Cable Boxes $0.28 $0.28
CD Rom/Floppy $0.28 $0.28
Cell Phones (No Batteries) $5.50 $5.25 *
Complete PC $0.47 $0.45 *
Incomplete PC $0.37 $0.35 *
Consumer Electronics $0.00 $0.00
Copper Degaussing Wire $1.95 $1.85 *
Docking Stations $0.14 $0.14
Electric Motors $0.22 $0.20 *
Fans (Computer/Server only) $0.15 $0.15
Hard Drives $1.25 $1.25
Hard Drive Boards $10.45 $10.25 *
Hard Drives - Shredded w/Boards $0.20 $0.20
Hard Drives - No Boards $0.47 $0.47
House/Office Phones $0.22 $0.20 *
Keyboards $0.04 $0.04
Laptop Complete $1.20 $1.20
Laptop Incomplete $0.75 $0.75
Lithium Ion Laptop Batteries (No power tool or other Li
compounds) $1.80 $1.80
Cell Phone Batteries (No power tool or other Li compounds) $1.55 $1.55
Motherboards/PCI Cards (clean green boards, no button battery
or additional Al/Fe) $3.95 $3.85 *
Low Grade Motherboards (red, yellow, blue, purple. These are
very low in Gold) $1.15 $1.10 *
Medium Grade Boards (Send Pictures as this is a baseline
price) $0.70 $0.70
Low Grade Boards $0.19 $0.17 *
Power Boards $0.46 $0.46
Gold Memory (RAM) $13.60 $13.50 *
Silver Memory (RAM) $3.10 $3.10
Mixed Computer Wire $0.74 $0.70 *
Modems $0.67 $0.67
NiCd Batteries $0.12 $0.12
NiMH Batteries $0.15 $0.15
Power Supplies - No Cords $0.35 $0.35
Power Supplies - With Cords $0.45 $0.45
Printers $0.06 $0.06
Copiers $0.04 $0.04
Servers - Complete $0.48 $0.45 *
Servers - Incomplete (Missing Hard Drives and Power Supplies) $0.30 $0.29 *
Network Switches/Routers $0.55 $0.55
Toner & Ink Jet Cartridges $0.10 $0.10
Transformers Sm/Lrg $0.40 $0.39 *
UPS (Uninterupted Power Supply) $0.28 $0.25 *
Yokes $0.80 $0.77 *
Prices are subject to change and confirmation.
Prices are for clean, segregated material, delivered to ARCOA . Call for picked up pricing.

http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/disma...ification.html

http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/elect...rds-parts.html
Well, that might get you started,, hope it helps some.

Welcome fellow Wisconsinite. PM me if you have any questions, or just want to chat.

welcome!! hope ya learn as much as I have