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Originally Posted by Ewasted
E can we still leave the brackets on finger boards (pci cards) but remove heat sink, cooling fans etc.
Yes that is still ok.Quote:
Originally Posted by DESCRAPPER
Thanks
So, we dropped off another load. I'm thinking it was over a ton. I know we had about 900 #'s of High Grade boards, then the rest of what the guys took up. There was a mix up with our Dock time (I screwed something up...lol) and Mario and crew (2 guys short) unloaded, sorted and cut a check Same Day! I'm not saying he'll do this every time, but I appreciate that he took care of my guys! That shows strength of character! With the exception of LOW GRADE, and retail quality units, we only sell to CFCS because for 2 years, we've only had Amazing service and feedback from Mario and his team!
We get solicitations all of the time, and the answer is always the same. "Thanks but No thanks!"
Ewasted have you gotten any of my message or pm?
Just dropped off nine 65 lb boxes at FED Ex........Any issues I have ever had with this company were taken care of within hours.......Even get a phone call or text from Mario or staff member from time to time.....LOL
Hey all-
Being a newbie at e-scrapping I just thought I would write a brief note regarding my experience with Mario/Ewasted/Cashforcomputerscrap.com. Overall, it was ridiculously easy and pleasant. The way I did it was: 1. assembled my scrap in similar piles, 2. weighed each pile rounding up to the nearest oz, 3. packed it in the smallest box it could possibly fit in, 4. logged in to their website and a. printed out an invoice to put in the box and b. printed out the FedEx shipping document to tape on the top, 5. dropped the box off at a designated FedEx site, 6. waited for the cash to appear in my Paypal account.
The box left NE Kansas on a Tuesday, arrived at their facility on Thursday, and the money appeared in my account the next Tuesday- total time: 7 days. Pretty amazing, really!
The box weighed 36.6 at shipping, measured 16x13x13 (a 1.5 cubic foot "moving box") and cost $21.37 using CFCS's pre-paid label. The total recovered scrap was 35.3 pounds, so the effective shipping cost was about $0.61 per pound. I don't have much to compare this to, but it seems pretty reasonable. I'm sure there are "sweet spot" combinations of volumes/weights in FedEx's pricing charts- with a little effort you could probably figure out what the most cost-effective volume/weight ratio is for your location (then again, it may not wind up varying by much).
What I turned in:
1. Gold connectors 5 lbs @ $1.50 = $7.50 (too bad my wife threw out an oatmeal can full of these things six months ago!)
2. Laptop/cell phone batteries 1.54 @ $1.10 = $1.69
3. Telecom boards 0.25 @ $4.80 = $1.20
4. Cell phones (no batteries) 0.65 @ $5.25 = $3.41
5. Gold memory 0.32 @ $13.85 = $4.43
6. Motherboards 26 @ $2.90 = $75.40
7. Telecom (different type?) 1 @ $4.45 = $4.45
8. Fingerboards 0.6 @ $3.90 = $2.34
minus shipping -$21.37
Net total $79.06
A few thoughts: overall, I'm quite happy with the exercise. There was a bit of a learning curve in collecting and processing the computers, etc. (which I enjoyed), though quite a bit of time went into scavenging them, taking them apart, and sorting the remains into piles (If you add in the wire, steel, motors and power supplies I turned in locally I probably netted closer to the original $100). Is it worth it? Yah, it is, so long as you have a place to put the stuff while it accumulates that doesn't annoy your significant other. I'll continue to pick up the odd piece of electronics here and there, but boy howdy am I envious of you folks that ship a pallet at a time- at that volume this really starts to make sense (Where do you *get* 50 computer towers at a time??? A different thread, I suppose).
Apart from the RAM sticks, the cellphones were the most valuable items- that kind of surprised me. I just got a new (very cheap) one at the AT&T store, and my wife grimaced when I asked them if they had a bucket full of dead phones in the back. If my better half hadn't been standing next to me I probably could have talked the sales rep into giving them to me...
One edit: I did have a couple (like one or two) hard drive boards in the mix that theoretically should've brought more money. I consider it my fault for not keeping track of them and getting them mixed in with the dozen or so CD/DVD boards I sent.
Last thing- I was a little worried about having "enough" of any one thing to make it worth processing. It seems like they accept fairly small quantities of items- had I known, I would've thrown my little pile of CPUs in as well. Next time...
cheers,
thebugguy
Buggy, I use sandwich or gallon sized baggies and big rubber bands for small quantities of smaller boards, like a handfull of HD boards or memory. If you use baggies then you can use a black marker to write on it.
It helps to keep stuff separated/sorted.
And a handful of memory, just throw a rubber band around it.
Yep. When we shipped small loads of odds and ends (cpus/ram) to Ewasted we used ziplock bags. Made it really easy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mechanic688
Well, I did have everything bundled up with rubber bands and baggies (I actually had something like 17 different "bundles" that I weighed out before shipping), but I didn't mark anything as one particular type of board or another, mostly because I really wasn't sure *how* they'd be sorted. As it turns out, virtually all of it was considered "motherboards" at $2.90/lb which, for the most part, I thought was fair. The obviously "good stuff" (telecom boards) was recognized for what it was and I was paid appropriately. If there were a few bits and pieces that I thought might be worth more but weren't sorted that way- well, I don't really care. Given the tiny volumes of stuff I sent in it would've only added a dollar or two to my totals, if that. I'm not gonna haggle over a couple bucks, and just having it out of the house was worth it...
Cheers,
tbg
I sent two separate loads off to Ewasted two weeks ago, both were processed and a check was sent out very quickly. Even sent a few odds and ends and were very happy in how they were graded and priced!
Do I need to separate the ram and hard drive boards into separate bags? I was going to do that but i would have to send 5 boxes. I have close too 100 pounds of clean boards and what not. If so i need to know before i ship all this stuff. Also do i need a form to fill out?
Haha...Electro..ya beat me to the punch. I'll just add...the lest you can do is scroll up a couple or four posts an see EXACTLY what you need to do to ship to Mario an Co. Thebugguy wrote quite the 101 guide to shipping to these folks.
Or..you know..go to page 1, read the actual price list, along with the link to their website where you'll find more info.
Sirscrapalot - "How can I lose to such an idiot?" - Aaron Nimzovich ( 1886 - 1938 former chessmaster )
Is that how you talk to and treat your customers, or just how you talk to other peoples customers?.....This isn't some good old boy club where you get to haze the new guy, especially on someone else's buyers thread. You might want to let this new guy know he is welcome on here and if he has any questions he should go to certain threads or how to contact the person he apparently is looking to send material to without a condescending attitude or capital letters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Electrowaste
Sir Scrap A lot... although many enjoy your wit and quotes, you implied with the one you used here that the new guy was an idiot...If I interpreted it that way im sure he did also ...Come on guys your better than this
if im not mistaking urban sir scrap has a forum post quote where it says idiot line that goes on every post he does doubt sir scrap would really do that. my 2 cents.Quote:
Originally Posted by URBANERECYCLING
48 pages of posts is a bit much for a newbie to consume. If I could suggest....find a way to cull through the least important ones (like this post), and keep only the ones with pertinent information and reviews that you like. Not sure if Mario can do that as the OP, but might help the new guy instead of saying "your answer might be somewhere in those 48 pages...or not".
I understand that but as a new person who is being berated already and doesn't know Sir Scrap Alots humor it is implied that to him that he is an idiot. Not that egos should be so sensitive on here but when its someone's first post we should be a lot more tolerant When commenting on someone elses buyers thread we need to be aware that our words are taken as being spoken by the buyer to those who just come on here.....
Personaly I think on a buyers thread no one but the buyer should be answering the questions.
You are so on the mark with that ShenQuote:
Originally Posted by shendog
I have sent alot of messages to the op about removing posts... which they have done as requested. I haven't requested and reviews to be pulled, i dont think thats right.Quote:
Originally Posted by URBANERECYCLING
Our first page communicates that they can email or chat with us. Happy to help them that route unfortunately caught this one a little too late on here...