I was preparing another shipment to ewasted and was wondering if anyone has sent him complete hard drives and whether there is a security issue at all.
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I was preparing another shipment to ewasted and was wondering if anyone has sent him complete hard drives and whether there is a security issue at all.
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The security issue is between you and your customers. You can destroy them or wipe them with data sanitizing software.
Here in Michigan, the law says I cannot be held responsible for any information on any storage devices unless the customer specifies that the data be destroyed. This does not release you from the laws of ethics and morality though
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I hope there are all scrap drives and not 40gb or higher drives. I pay way more than scrap value for compete drives of those sizes. I dont think mario offers a data destruction service but im pretty sure they get shredded. I could be wrong though.
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I would pull the boards and ship them seperated. Less weight and way better price.
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This would depend on size. Give you quick example of best case scenario. You can fit 36 hard drives in a large flat rate box lets say they are all 80gb SATA and they all check good. Would cost about $16 to ship and I would pay you $90. So a profit of $84. Those same amount of drives would produce about 2.7 pounds of boards for about $32 plus $17 in alluminum aprox. I would take $84 profit over $49 anyday.Originally Posted by phildogg
Now if your talking just old drives heck yeah dont ship them whole. Pull the boards and send just theboards in and find a yard that will pay you good high alluminum breakage for the carcasses. Or break them all the way down for clean prices. I do this while im watching TV.
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been usin e wasted for some time, there are no issues I know or have heard about. Mario and his company are straight up dudes.
as a buyer on this forum slip ups can be very costly very quickly.
700 lbs of drives will yeald around 45 lbs of boards avg.
Last edited by EcoSafe; 01-01-2013 at 02:22 PM.
"anyone who thinks scrappin is easy money ain't doin it right!"
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hmmmm.. PTS, when I was in school, $90 minus $16 shipping came out to "$74"profit... (wink) ... still a nicer figure than $49
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You are right I should prrof read some of my stuff. I try to type to fast sometime and mess up.
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Thanks guys, ill probably just pull the board and send those in, I would be nervous about selling them on eBay.
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anything 40gb or more send them to me. You will make more money then pulling boards and sending them in. I garuntee it just ask some who have tryed my service.
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