Lets Talk E-scrap prices - Page 3

Originally Posted by parrothead

I'll tell you what. Next time I take one apart, I will snap some pictures and start a seperate thread in whatever section to show some identification. I hope the next computer comes soon. I also have some other parts laying around that I will photograph at the same time since they do not always look the same.

That would be great!

Thank,s for your idea and info.I would find it very helpfull,to keep up on pricing and buyers.

Be careful melting silver contacts. Most of them are 80% silver, 20% Cadnium (pevents arc burns). Breathing the fumes from the Cadnium is super bad news.

Originally Posted by Kris Kringle

So is fumes from Galvanized Steel Highly Toxic

Huh, did not know that. I did know not to put anything galvanized in my mouth. I was told as a child, from what I hear, many many times. lol.

does anyone have any contact info on the place computerscrapper is talking about tried google searches and got nothing but a bunch of ads for free escrap recyclers any help would be appreciated thanks

Tried to PM you computer scrapper, but i am not worthy apparently. i would like to get contact info for Bruce. i was able to find Bruce Opdahl owner of crc through some booleans, but no direct contact for the business. i own a computer repair business in VA, and have several hundred pounds of separated scrap. please advise...

myriapodbco@yahoo.com

I'm not computerscrapper but here's an email address for bruce. Your welcome,,,

Originally Posted by ComputerScrapper

I thought I would start a discussion on the prices for various e-waste items that many may be getting into now that the e-waste craze has started.

I personally have stopped selling my scrap on Ebay because I found another place to sell all of my items that are gold bearing.

Currently I am receiving $4.30 per pound for motherboards and slot boards (video cards, sound cards, etc.)

For mixed ram I am getting $15.00 per pound
For Pentium 2 slot 1 processors I get $11.00 per pound (these are the ones that look like obese ram sticks)

For processors the price varies depending on the type...The price starts at $110.00 per pound and goes all the way down to $35.00 per pound.

Hard drive boards sell for $9.00 a pound

Boards from other drives, like CD or floppy drives, are considered mid-grade and only fetch about .50 per pound.

Low grade, brown top boards sell for about .30 per pound....These are generally the kind that is found inside monitors (CRT) and other electronic items like VCRs and DVD players.

The rest is pretty much standard scrap metal pricing and most goes to the scrap yard. I do not send my low grade boards in for processing to my new place because they are not worth shipping. But luckily my local scrap yard buys them for a decent price.

good afternoon I'm interested in upgrading electronic scrap prices; mothrboards, cell phone boards, gold fingers, hard boards, ram memory and processors. I owe the quick response since I have ability to get from 4000 to 6000 lbs per month

Here on Long Island they are not offering any real money from places I inquired of. $2.50 to $5.00 for rams, $4.00 to $7.00 for mother boards, up to $11.00 a lbs for CPU depending on which ones.