Anyone sold low grade boards latley

Gonna call around tomorrow and see if I can find some close places to sell my low grade board too. Got around 100lbs of them and there takin up too much space in the garage. Anyone know what there goin for right now?

I just asked at my local place on Saturday morning. 10 cents a pound. I've probably got 50-60 pounds piled up, myself.

They just started doing e-waste, and their pricing is dismal. Motherboard grade is like $1.50 or something. Same with hard drive boards. I'm going to be looking to an online buyer for everything above low-grade that I have. Even with shipping costs, it'll be a no-brainer.

Hopefully you have a better buyer.

Originally Posted by miked

If you haven't already please check our memeber/buyers, they have lots of reviews. Mike

Yeah, I'm specifically looking at Ewasted. I'm "banking" my ewaste right now, and I'm going to start shipping some his way over the winter when I'm down.



For the record, if that works out, then I will be so grateful to have found this board. Moreso than I already am, I guess. I've learned so much from this place, and even though my weights going into the yard haven't increased too much, my money has. Much smarter yields.

The thread is re. low grade, correct?

Does it really make sense to ship low grade?

If somebody has a secret for this, I'd like to hear it. As far as I can tell, low grade pays about .15/lb max., which means 100 pounds of low grade grosses $15.00 and I'm not sure how you ship 100 pounds anywhere in a manner that makes it profitable.

Originally Posted by volvoscrapper

Does it really make sense to ship low grade?

I don't think anybody would ship low grade. It sure doesn't make sense to me.

Here's my trick.
Cash for Electronics Scrap - Recycle Computers - Cash 4 Electronics

They pay shipping up front and send you a small, tiny little check latter... but it's a good way to get rid of low grade boards if you are like me and have no buyers here in town and cannot dump them on the scrap yard.

DO NOT SHIP HIGH GRADE BOARDS TO THIS BUYER. I have heard bad things about their prices for high grade boards.

They will end up in the shred pile before i go and waste my time shipping them. At .10 /lb thats an extra 10 bucks in my pocket.Guess ill either wait till im ready to take my copper alum and shread or just put them out back and keep hoarding them

Getting $0.20 per pound at my yard right now.

I wouldn't let your yard catch you throwing boards in with shred. The EPA regularly test shred "fluff". If it contains high levels of toxic metals (lead, cadmium, mercury) they will heavily fine the yard.

.30-.35 in Tampa

13c a kg, that works out to about 6c lb
cheap as chips but it's better then nothing being rubbish really.
if you take off the good bits there's not much left to refine.
got a car load going today, the last of my huge low grade pile, what a relief to get rid of 'em.

I just sold low grade first time to my yard. Thank goodness I only took 20 lbs. to test the waters. They paid .04 lbs. !

Originally Posted by BohemianLush

I wouldn't let your yard catch you throwing boards in with shred. The EPA regularly test shred "fluff". If it contains high levels of toxic metals (lead, cadmium, mercury) they will heavily fine the yard.

Don't microwaves, fridges, washers and other stuff have boards in them? I'm not sure how a few boards could destroy the shred? Also alot of stuff out there still has mercury switches in them, if I find them I remove them. Not sure what to do with them but keep them in a coffee can!

My yard buys them for $0.02 a pound. I found a place in another town that's giving me $0.10 a pound....