Went to ARCOA in Orlando today. Arrived at 8:30am. Finding the place was tricky - I had the right address and the GPS brought me to it, but the sign said MidWest Copier and I was confused till I walked in and saw a pamphlet for ARCOA on the counter. I met with Fidel who was very nice and helped unload and used the forklift to bring everything up on the dock (my van had loose items and boxed stuff, all sorted which we put on pallets since I couldn't get the van up the ramp). I could tell Fidel wasn't completely up to par on ewaste. He said he had just been trained and was still learning. He was very polite and helpful, and answered any questions he could. He took pictures of everything as it was weighed, and afterwards I helped him put it all in the gaylords in the back of the warehouse.
Lindy took over and sent all the pictures and weights to George and Bud in Illinois with some questions I had on grading some of the boards which were promptly responded to. She filled out the forms, but it seemed as though they had problems with the form for items/weights in Excel. Being well versed in Excel, I asked if I could take a look. 20 minutes later after fine tuning, putting in all the ewaste items, adding automatic calculations, and sizing everything properly, Form #28 was redesigned and ready for easier processing for future deliveries!
So now I have the wait for the check. This load should be a good payout. I will post how long it takes and when it arrives.
I brought about 2,300 lbs of stuff loaded in the van. The 2 biggest weights were 703 lbs of hard drives w/o boards and 553 lbs of motherboards, riser cards and pc cards which were all graded at high grade green board. Also had 300 lbs of power supplies, 286 lbs of UPS units, 212 lbs of individual lead acid batteries pulled from UPS's, and some other misc stuff. Here's some pics:
100 lbs of PC Cards
316 lbs of 486/Pentium/P2/P3/P4 boards (Mostly Dell)
96 lbs of high grade network boards from 3 Nortel Network 8-bay backplane racks
703 lbs of hard drives w/o boards
30 lbs misc cable (floppy/hard drive ribbon cables mostly)
I'm glad I found a place semi-local (75 miles from me) that has good pricing on a lot of the stuff I don't want to ship or isn't worthwhile to ship.
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