Greetings from Wisconsin!

Welcome, I'm also a Wisconsinite. What kind of scrap are you into? I do mostly alloys and e scrap.

Off cars mostly. There's a place out by me... apparently either because of lack of management oversight or employee laziness, they have been tossing lots of wire... I mean like... my buddy and I would go by 2x a week and for as long as the sky held light strip harnesses and such out of cars in the "crush" pile. I think our best day was close over 800#.
We weren't getting the best price for it. Probably because we were lazy. Guy told us if we took off all the extra casing and clipped the connectors he could give us a better price. I think we were getting $1.13/lb?

I work at a salvage yard myself doing all the online reselling for aftermarket parts.
Currently I have a couple hundred aftermarket and junk radios that either aren't worth selling and we don't get money for.
My question actually revolved around the boards and components in them and if it was similar in price to optical drives / peripheral boards from computers and such.
Since our best offer from an e-scrap company in WI was like $.012/lb (yes 1.2 pennies) I bought them all at slightly higher prices. Management is pretty cool here. Especially since I just spent a week covering positions everywhere while also managing to put together a very well detailed report on a $1.5million profit line that we have instead been paying to throw away.

I have no idea where any places that would buy e-scrap are in Central Wisconsin. Columbia/Dodge/Washington/FDL area.

Originally Posted by WorkDrinkSleepRepeat

Off cars mostly. There's a place out by me... apparently either because of lack of management oversight or employee laziness, they have been tossing lots of wire... I mean like... my buddy and I would go by 2x a week and for as long as the sky held light strip harnesses and such out of cars in the "crush" pile. I think our best day was close over 800#.
We weren't getting the best price for it. Probably because we were lazy. Guy told us if we took off all the extra casing and clipped the connectors he could give us a better price. I think we were getting $1.13/lb?

I work at a salvage yard myself doing all the online reselling for aftermarket parts.
Currently I have a couple hundred aftermarket and junk radios that either aren't worth selling and we don't get money for.
My question actually revolved around the boards and components in them and if it was similar in price to optical drives / peripheral boards from computers and such.
Since our best offer from an e-scrap company in WI was like $.012/lb (yes 1.2 pennies) I bought them all at slightly higher prices. Management is pretty cool here. Especially since I just spent a week covering positions everywhere while also managing to put together a very well detailed report on a $1.5million profit line that we have instead been paying to throw away.

I have no idea where any places that would buy e-scrap are in Central Wisconsin. Columbia/Dodge/Washington/FDL area.

That's ridiculously low. I would've bought them all too. Good find.

That's ridiculously low. I would've bought them all too. Good find.

The radios? Well I get all the aftermarket parts. Thing is some of these are A. Old B. Junk C. Cheap to begin with
Since I've actually been finding better prices for some of our waste/recycling management I figured maybe we could get scrap money since I know there's some money in e-scrap. Nope and more nope. So I basically took all the quotes to management, showed them the pitiful bottom line, and offered them $0.10/lb. Money in is better than money out. Plus I need a hobby to cut back on the drinking... It's taking more time out of my week than work or sleep this time of year.

Originally Posted by WorkDrinkSleepRepeat

The radios? Well I get all the aftermarket parts. Thing is some of these are A. Old B. Junk C. Cheap to begin with
Since I've actually been finding better prices for some of our waste/recycling management I figured maybe we could get scrap money since I know there's some money in e-scrap. Nope and more nope. So I basically took all the quotes to management, showed them the pitiful bottom line, and offered them $0.10/lb. Money in is better than money out. Plus I need a hobby to cut back on the drinking... It's taking more time out of my week than work or sleep this time of year.

I misread, I thought you were talking about computer motherboards for 1.2 pennies.