Buying e-waste and non-ferrous commodities in Las Vegas - Page 2

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 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!

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

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 freight

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

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

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.

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.

Originally Posted by mthomasdev

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.

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