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 Post subject: Re: Why boardsort?
PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2026 10:13 pm 

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lostinlodos wrote:
Cash for computer scrap screwed me bad.

And thousands of others didn’t know they got screwed.



As in legal procedures etc.
It’s when I joined boardsort and never looked back.


To answer the question OP, there are 3 types of paid recycling options for escrap. (4)
1) dedicated sorters (eg boardsort) that ship tonnage of presort to a dedicated company or companies at fixed but floating rates per class and grade. The top of the pyramid I’ve explained previously.
2) recyclers who buy escrap. They sell to #1 and pay a bit below, rarely less 20% or more.
3) middlemen precious metals buyers. They buy at 40-60% value based on averages per class and sell to a refinery at 80-95% recovery value on spot.

(4) internet based buyers such as myself. We pay from below scrap rate to just above for most of what we take in. And repair as much as we can for resale.



Oh man! I’ve never had a problem with them everything’s been accurate to what I’ve shipped. I’d be curious what happened to you but I’m sure that’s a long story!


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 Post subject: Re: Why boardsort?
PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2026 11:02 pm 
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Oh man! I’ve never had a problem with them everything’s been accurate to what I’ve shipped. I’d be curious what happened to you but I’m sure that’s a long story!



Supposedly it had to do with a location move but a highly refined gold bar “got lost”.
After months of complaints and a message that some user here sent them a link to, I complained on boardsort, and they wanted to “fix the issue”, which coincided with the timing of a legal notice from our lawyer.

They offered an immediate payment high enough to be more than a court case would have cost. But far less than the bar was worth.

I’m a well-versed refiner in my own right. I use high voltage to separate all ferromagnetic impurities from a melt in melt state.
That’s why I’m so against people posting about refining. Beyond the let’s-not-cut-into-BS’s-margins, I know the actual realities of doing so.

This wasn’t a bar of melted steel plated pins you find on ebay overpriced. It was a 92% fine antennae melt. With no iron, the remaining 8% was aluminium, carbon, tin, zinc, and mostly copper.

The original post is still here somewhere.
I’ll never forget that.

I’m not the average scrap seller. I really do refine a good quantity of what I have myself and have a good relationship with a pawn shoppe that is over a decade long as a middleman for me to sell my bars.
Boardsort, Chris, has been very open to testing and evaluating the boards I send them. Often things most people will never see let alone scrap.
They have worked with me to properly sort all sorts of stuff. And, I believe any ego stroke aside, I’ve had a minor play in the ever-expanding expanding classes over time.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2026 11:03 pm 
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It was enough to follow up my post with a situation resolved note, but I refuse to ever promote them.i have no proof.
But I truely believe they simply tossed it into the standard for blocks they get and called it a day despite being told and confirmed I was sending in a highly qualified bar.

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