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Updated pricing. Added a couple of items.
For the time being am no longer buying or selling ewaste or any scrap
Hi all! Pricing updated! Am now doing some buying for Red Rock Metal Recycling here in Las Vegas where I work! Hurry and sell us all your stuff lol!
Nice monitor pricing! Confirmed some of what I was thinking. Wish I could make it work with shipping. I looked at LTL with 15 pallets, 9000 pounds and it would have cost as much to ship as I probably would have gotten. I guess I just live on the wrong coast in this situation.
Yeah at that distance....it's tough lol. Even a full truckload with 36 pallets (18 spots all double stacked) the distance might be too much to make $ sense.
Pricing updated
Prices updated
Have a new outlet for Cu wire Cat-5 and below. Will wait a moment to ensure sustainability before adjusting public pricing but if you have a good quantity hit me up. On wire cat-5 and below might be able to go as much as .12/lb higher than the prices above (as of 28 July 2020)
Changed the definition of a fingercard as I can sell all but the ones with the largest heatsinks and fans as fingercards. The top picture here I cannot buy as a fingercard. The bottom five are clean fingercards for me.
Dirty
https://www.scrapmetalforum.com/atta...tid=4663&stc=1
Clean
https://www.scrapmetalforum.com/atta...tid=4664&stc=1https://www.scrapmetalforum.com/atta...tid=4665&stc=1https://www.scrapmetalforum.com/atta...tid=4666&stc=1https://www.scrapmetalforum.com/atta...tid=4667&stc=1https://www.scrapmetalforum.com/atta...tid=4668&stc=1
Pricing updated
Updated non-ferrous pricing and gave a little bump to power boards and low-grade boards. Couple examples accurate as of 15 Oct:
Bare bright: $2.59
Romex: $1.41
6063 Bare: $.53
Red brass: $1.75
Power boards: $.25
Low grade boards: $.21
If you have full gayloards of any commodity or over 10,000lbs of a commodity can always give a price bump!
While I would very much like to buy your materials, you can always email me just to get a nice PDF price sheet to use to argue up your local pricing if mine is significantly higher for non-ferrous! So....sell to me! Or at least threaten to!
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Originally Posted by JJinLV
Careful with this approach, I've seen people get banned from the yard (or at least warned about getting banned from the yard) for trying to complain/compare prices. I once mentioned how the wire I had once usually get classified as a higher grade and I get $x price for it at another yard and the guy said "number one rule at scrap yards is don't complain about the price or try to haggle, if my manager heard you say that he would have kicked you out of here" .... which seems like B.S. but.... just something that happened not sure if it's actually true. Ive also seen this same place say if you don't like our prices take your stuff somewhere else and refuse to accept a load from someone after he was hemming and hawing over the price. So... idk., just saying. And both these occurances were at the largest yard in the area, so that may have had something to do with it (they have the best prices on steel and shred it onsite, but not so much best prices on non-ferrous)
This might be a problem if you bring in small quantities. But I don't see it as likely if you have enough material that it would make sense to ship freight anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by kss
All scrap yards try to do is play is "short man syndrome". Tell them to pound sand and walk away. It's the same as people out here on the forum. They all want to be a big dog, knowing no one will call their bluff.
I just went through this 3 weeks ago. Had a pile of lead. I just kept stacking, never did bother to weigh it. I figured I'd only sell 20-50 lbs at a crack. Had 3 buyers @ 50. Then a guy said he'd take all I had. So I rounded it all up. weighed it, told him I had 550 lbs with his name on it. Lot of back pedaling with that big number. If you're gonna think you can play with the big dogs, be prepared to play.
Now accepting CRTs for free. Any quantity you can ship I can handle so if you can charge a disposal fee that is more than what it costs to ship them to me that's $ for you.
Pricing updated. A few examples:
Bare bright: $2.70
Electric Motors: $.17
Yellow brass: $1.69
Stainless 316: $.59
Mid-grade/peripheral circuit board mix: $1.85
As always I can give a nudge with large quantities.
Pricing updated. Big copper jump this weekend so it's a good day to sell! Some example below:
Bare bright: $3.00/lb
Romex: $1.69
Stainless 18-8/304: .39
Copper transformers: .29
6063 Bare: .59
Pricing updated. Some examples below:
Bare bright: $3.21
Cu degaussing wire: $2.47
ICW #2 35%: $.79
18-8 Stainless steel: $.42
Mixed aluminum heatsinks: $.47
Electric motors: $.30
Cast aluminum: $.45
Pricing updated. Some examples below:
Servers complete: $.58
Cable/Satellite boxes: $.28
Hard drive complete: $.70
High grade aluminum borings: $.40
Soft lead: $.56
Price update for lower value circuit boards -
Power boards: .35
Low-grade boards: .26
Price updates for a lot of stuff. Some examples:
ICW #2 35%: .82
ICW #1 80%: 2.33
Laptop incomplete/bad screen (must have motherboard): .85
Cable/Satellite/DVR boxes w/hard drive: .39
Cable/Satellite/DVR boxes w/o hard drive: .31
Routers: .56
Cell phones w/o battery: 4.75
Price sheet updated. Some examples below. Copper isn't quite as high as when it peaked last week but still quite good! As always, add .02 to anything non-ferrous priced over .40/lb for full gaylord quantities and be in touch for pricing in quantities over 10000lbs.
#2 Copper: 3.37
Cu degaussing wire: 2.71
ICW #2 35%: .89
Cu yokes: .68
Cast aluminum: .46
Die cast: .55
Cast iron: .076
Apart from my daily listed price, in quantities over 15000lbs am currently paying premiums for most lower grade wire apart from jelly wire. For example at today's copper price would buy ICW #2 50% (Cat 5/6 mixes and like) at 1.54
Pricing updated! As you'd expect copper is up a lot but so are EC wire, 6063 and 6061 aluminum! Some examples below. Also added a new item, molybdenum (currently $9.25/lb for modest quantities, can go substantially higher for quantities over 1000 lbs). Current price for quantities of cat-5/ICW #2 50% over 15,000 lbs is $1.73/lb).
Cu #1: $4.00/lb
ICW #2 35%: 1.03
6061 Al ext: .82
Ins Al wire: .45
Elec Motors: .33
SS 316: .73
Cast Fe: .08
I don't update this sheet everyday because there is only one forum member I currently buy from with any regularity - though I have bought over $100k in non-ferrous from them since roughly September! - but with the continual bumps of copper I'm buying #2 copper over $4/lb for the first time in my career. Some of you have been in the business much, much longer than me and might remember the last copper spike but this is a first for me. Even bought low-grade wire over $1.15 today. What a ride recently!
your pricing looks great if only you were closer :)
Ain't that the way it goes? If you do happen to save up close to ftl quantities though, reach out and I'll give you a quote for everything picked up and will pay the freightQuote:
Originally Posted by mikeinreco
Wow....I am trying to work in that direction and have rented more space but it feels like a daunting task.....I have just been selling not for the need of money but need for space
Pricing updated. Some examples below. As always add .02 for full gaylord quantities of anything over .40/lb. If you have more than 10,000 lbs of a specific commodity be in touch for pricing, especially if it's any kind of #2 wire.
Al/Cu heatsinks mixed: .75
Al/Cu heatsinks with Cu slug: .90
Al/Cu heatsinks with Cu slug irony: .78
Power boards: .40
Harness wire (including power supply pig tails): 1.50
Romex: 2.32
MLC: .58
Red brass: 2.89
Pricing updated! Even with the recent copper drops our pricing is still a little higher than when I last updated two weeks ago. Couple of sorta announcements. Boosted the pricing on both copper transformers and insulated aluminum wire, especially the transformers. Have a new outlet and believe I'm competitive anywhere nationally at .67/lb right now. This applies to Cu transformers over 1lb only! Al/Cu transformers are around half that price but still higher than the breakage price they normally get. Also starting to buy 5000 series aluminums at pricing much higher than MLC. Lots of stuff at high water prices since I've been scrapping including lead and 316 stainless. As always, add .02/lb for full gaylord quantities of anything over .45/lb and be in touch for quantities over 10,000 lbs. Some current pricing samples below:
Insulated aluminum wire: .42
Aluminum rims clean: .76
5052 Aluminum sheet/plate/clip: .88
316 stainless steel solids/sheet: .80
Soft lead clean: .60
Servers complete: .60
Cu bare bright: 4.08
ICW #2 45%: 1.44
Big news! I'm no longer in the e-waste business, at least not at a significant level. Our non-ferrous and ferrous business has picked up to such a degree that e-waste disassembly and e-commerce is less beneficial than spending time recruiting and servicing non-ferrous and ferrous clients. Sometime in the next 2-3 weeks will ship out my last foreseeable big circuit board load. I will still happily buy e-waste but only to flip as is locally and not at pricing competitive with most of the forum members. I'm happy to connect you directly with the places I previously sold e-waste to or my CRT recycling contact.
Below are some non-ferrous prices for today. Copper has dropped a bit since my last update here but some aluminums are jumping quite a bit!:
Copper #1: $3.75/lb
Romex: 2.20
ICW #2 35%: .93
EC Wire: .96
Al litho: .78
5052 solids: .94
6063 bare: 1.01
316 stainless: .89
We are a dying breed (ewasters)
E-waste has a much, much higher ceiling here in Las Vegas due to a relative lack of competition and greater than scrap value's extraordinary margins but simplifying was the way to go for me. Commercial scale peddling and brokering the occasional truckload is easy work once you build a base. It doesn't make me a ton of money but it makes me enough to not struggle every day and doesn't occupy my mind after hours. And that's a fine life.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeinreco
While I have yet to physically sell any scrap to JJ, I will say that we have had an excellent, mutually beneficial business transaction. Assisting fellow members, even 2600 miles away, with client relationships has its benefits.
Thank you JJ and I will be sure to be on the look out for more opportunities.
Thank you! I'm always happy to pay for a successful referral and appreciate you thinking of me when you saw the opportunity.Quote:
Originally Posted by mthomasdev
Pricing updated. Copper has rebounded a bit and aluminum pricing, especially for 5000 and 6000 series and EC wire, remains strong and incrementally rising and stainless pricing has really jumped! Some examples below:
Cu bare bright: 4.02
Romex: 2.33
Cu transformers: .75
Al 6063 bare: 1.15
Al 6063 painted: 1.07
Ins Al wire: .45
Stainless steel 316: 1.00
Stainless steel 304: .66
Pricing updates! Also added a new item. Starters, alternators and AC auto compressors we're now buying at .37/lb in quantities over 500lbs. Other auto aluminum breakage like water pumps and such will be bought for less than half that price. Copper pricing dropped significantly last month but has rebounded to August levels. Aluminum pricing keeps rising. Some examples below.
Cu #2: 3.74
Cu transformers: .60
Al/Cu transformers: .26
Al 6063 Bare: 1.21
MLC: .78
Ins Al wire: .57
Soft lead: .69
Big copper jump overnight! Bought #2 Cu at 3.90 today. Woulda beat $4 with a big enough quantity!