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BigSteve, I have encountered a lot of used car salesmen in my hometown who were skilled at playing with the numbers, and suddenly an old clunker running on rims suddenly overnight became grandmas sunday chariot with only 13 actual miles (all that smoke from the tailpipe was just a mosquito fogging feature).
I don't spend a lot of time looking for a buyer who will offer more for e-scrap. I do get more for the other metals, ferrous and non ferrous at my local yards, who do not buy e-scrap except as shred, for 8 or 9 cents per pound. So, I only take the boards and items with precious metal content to Boardsort...not worth hauling the material that I can sell locally, and I'm sure Boardsort would be just as happy not to have to deal with the junk.
I have seen "higher prices" claimed in certain sections of the country, and ridiculously low in other remote sections. Frankly, I don't believe their claims . I did check out one who offered $8 per pound for capacitors, but realized it was not an invitation for a Saturday Scrapper like me to come see them. I just didn't have the 40,000 pound minimum they required.
About thiry years ago, ( I had to think three times to remember it was so long ago...nah, it was only twenty years ago, a local yard gave me a tractor trailer load of old crt monitors and the Apple of the type used in school, with the pretty colored monitors and the goodies inside. I broke those down and saved the boards, also from the apple lle. A local independent scrapper came by and paid me 30 cents a pound for the boards, 500 pounds total. He took them to a business in another city that paid a good price. But, this place that paid well did not advertise or accept from the general public.
In order to sell to them, one had to make an appointment for an interview. I don't know what type of questions were asked, but either they agreed to buy from you or you were rejected. My buyer said he had to pay $3000 to another scrapper to even find out about this company, and he offered to sell me the contact information for only $1500, but since I had no prospects of getting more e scrap, I declined. However, the company who paid the good prices (actually the only one who bought e scrap back then) kept a close eye and banned sellers who tried to slip garbage by them like throwing a few pounds of miscellaneous garbage in a gaylord of boards...say a couple pounds of lead shot .
I guess to sum up what I would have said in a more cognizant manner later in the day, is, even though the money pool looks inviting, don't jump in headfirst with both feet before testing the water rolling off a ducks back for actual greenback dollars.
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