Taking Boards to my E-Waste Buyer

Took in a good haul of motherboards, hard drives and other stuff to my buyer today to clear out 3-4 months of board accumulation.
Ended up having 548 kg's of motherboards, 686 kg hard drives and a good pile of mid grade boards that added up to quite a good earn, although I do buy motherboards so it's certainly not all profit.
Now to set up my space with cages and reduce how many times I need to handle commodities.

[@vincentjay6286]

For those wondering: 106kg Laptops $159 55 Screens $55 79kg PSUs $35 686kg Hard Drives $1029 54kg High Grade $270 548kg Mobos $3630 223kg Mid $440 64kg Low $20 52kg Laptop Mobo $300

[@vale7716]

Whats mobos

[@lincolncent7]

@@vale7716 Motherboards

[@vale7716]

Oh ty

[@danielpersson7483]

Cant even find a buyer in Sweden,we have to pay to get rid of elektronics

[@TvConfusionn]

@@vale7716 you’re welcome

[@gortnewton4765]

All those PCs you picked up. Some swapping and changing of boards and drives around should see some working machines which you can sell for $50 each, far more than that scrap value and takes up the same time!!

[@lt.punchdrunkington7123]

Awesome videos man. Watching your videos is my new hobby!

[@914Catfish]

Good work. it is great to see a scrapper that is organized and neat. Wish I was one!

[@EuroRecycling]

I like to be like that too! Oh ye I like to organize my scrap!!

[@shaneyork300]

You just sold enough to make some U.S. recycling companies jealous! I'm talking about some of the ones that move 20 to 30 tons of steel per hour. Because it's so new to them, most just have 2 grades of boards, low and high, that's it. I won't sell, I depopulate everything!!!

[@Jan3Sobieski5]

This breaks my heart :(

[@americasfavoritehoarder]

Breaks your heart? I wanna cry.

[@bazzy75]

It should break your heart how people throw things in the trash

[@MegaZidzid]

it's Australia, not some poor country. People there don't bother with trash, it's headache.

[@gateke1]

RIP motherboards we enjoyed your company ;)

[@americasfavoritehoarder]

You got the right attitude. If you do it for money its not allways worth it. But if you do it as a hobby anything you get is a bonus!! Keep on hoarding. Or as you say...Strategic Stockpiling!

[@bantalee2002]

That was a good haul Ben!. Not bad for a days labor,all from collecting what someone else thinks as trash.

[@asurans34]

Nice vid. Loved some of that equipment at your buyer’s location!

[@uberism81]

Wow awesome video. Great job!

[@ITSTIMETOSTOP]

Nice one Ben.

[@rednose900]

another great video ben! what a stack....

[@vincentbloomfield5776]

pricing with your weights would be great, please give us an update!

[@gateke1]

14:54 that motherchicken is watching out for your motherboards!, good chicken :D

[@tharealsteven]

Good work mate!👌👍

[@jakestewart7301]

Jake Stewart E Waste Riisyling free pickup trailer Brinkley sage Murray bridge Thank you

[@philrusciano115]

remember those collapsing shopping carts you passed up cut the basket off put lip under your wheel less tubs and your moving is made easier old timer.

[@gortnewton4765]

$1000 per tonne for motherboards (PCs not notebooks) and you got $200 over the usual. That's about 330 grams per motherboard, 3 per kilogram, 3000 motherboards collected for $1200 (approximately) and that is $4 each. Is that about correct Benny? Scrap dealer buys from you (collector), sells to Sims Metal,

[@eWasteBen]

no motherboards are $4500 tonne

[@gortnewton4765]

Wow! That is a good price. When are you going to set up your own foundry to process the boards into metals. I personally think you are capable of it. That wouldn't be a backyard thing of course. Or, you could even pre-process the boards then take to a foundry (just a thought).

[@davidhauschild5584]

Ben the IBM tape drive units will blow your mind . look at some of the pics on my Instagram account. I picked up three units at almost 3000 lbs each payed $550 for all three plus plus $430 for trans made over $3200 in Scrap. $550 for the cables I sold to one of my customers. I still have very high grade boards in my collection.

[@goldrecovery]

Nice.

[@douglaswarren5876]

I got just as exited looking at the e waste buyers place as you . I wouldlove to do what you do for a living

[@CooperCarr]

I wonder if the hard drives are so valuable cause people try to mine data from them for nefarious uses?

[@shannonbowers4130]

cast alloy and aluminium are paying good money at the moment to been getting $1 80 a kilo

[@ivsongold322]

hello my friend deposes me the name of this tool that you use to remove the connectors from the electronics boards

[@farooqzaheer6124]

Normally motherboard sells for 2 dollers each in india

[@cladqueen8054]

What do you do about the hard drives possible having illegal info on them and them being in your possession. It has been something that has kept me from scrapping computers.

[@mattploij2673]

Ben if you ever get a broken black MacBook in, i'll buy it off you. I need parts to fix mine.

[@richardoconnor7162]

You need a nice trailer to maximize your loads in.

[@martylp3004]

do Q&A

[@ContraVerseCity]

Does leaving all the motherboards and other stuff exposed to the elements create a problem when selling. Cheers

[@snoozinghipo]

In Sweden they only pay low grade price for any type of board or CPU, chips etc. It's just terrible!!

[@Zephieish]

snoozinghipo Change it then.. start your own business and pay more for boards and give your competition a bad day ;)

[@snoozinghipo]

Well it would be do-able but very tough. There is one main company that collects all electronic scrap and has most of the contracts to collect the scrap. It would need a big outlay including vans and scrap cages where people would deposit the waste, and a company official set-up to do. The other problem is volume as Sweden people don't understand about the value of electronic scrap so you would need to educate them also. Having said that I have been tempted to try :)

[@Dan01554]

Hi snoozinghipo. how long have you been e-Waste recycling. we could help each other. Danny.

[@EuroRecycling]

I see he didn't responded.. or maybe other way! I am also a e waste recycler. I have been doing this for approx 3 years. How about you? (check out my channel and maybe get in touch)

[@999DusanGoldrecovery]

You have a perfectly developed job, buddy. I have tried something similar in Serbia, but there is no way to achieve this beside our laws :(

[@999DusanGoldrecovery]

Ps - hdd plate have platin on isfelf - REALY!

[@belatoth6247]

nice Ben

[@snoozinghipo]

Can you tell us what your prices are like there in Aus?

[@davespeedee]

"Pay some bills" haha

[@213brenton]

thats amazing all them laptops going to recycle prob nothing wrong with most of them. but software issues

[@gsmgsa]

So how much was the fish? :)

[@hot_dog_water2437]

Why doesn’t Ben ever heart comments or reply to any?

[@eWasteBen]

I do a little

[@neversleepagain173]

Do the Hard Drives work?

[@jcd2403]

Nice video ben, what does your buyer do with those laptops they had in their warehouse?

[@eWasteBen]

they will be shipped to a refiner

[@jcd2403]

Wouldn't it be worth it to buy the laptops off them for scrap prices and then retail them out? They look to be pretty new.

[@ifeanyiokorie8757]

That is good

[@repo2678]

who in Adelaide South Australia buys motherboards and e wast scrap

[@parvezalam-nz3mq]

I want to buy

[@dawnrazornephilim]

Who is the buyer? I live in Melbourne.

nice....grat.

[@ernestpetzrick7741]

Did you say you were backing off your recycling effort?

[@eWasteBen]

I've been servicing regular clients but have slowed down advertising for new customers. I'm getting as much scrap as I want to handle so it's been good, but unless I got a factory and staff, I wouldn't be able to keep up as 4 years of going hard starts to creep up on the old back.

[@ernestpetzrick7741]

Yes - this can be a little hard on the body. You've done well setting up a good stream with regulars. All the best.

[@Dan01554]

Hi Ben. I really like your not shy of work. but I thought you always depopulate all your boards. But I see all those chips "gold silver tantulum" and others still on your board which you are selling with them all on. Danny.

[@shannonbowers4130]

hi mate how you doing quick question are you located in the Brisbane area

[@eWasteBen]

melb'

[@shannonbowers4130]

I've been scrapping for a while now you've showed me a whole new world mate you would not believe how much of this stuff I throwing out I will stop pilot and from now on and if you are interested in it we will exchange details

[@shannonbowers4130]

I've learnt a lot from you thank you mate I tried to win the 5G gold bar I was way off I said 1825

[@Dan01554]

Hi Shannon, yes your right, the price is roughly $6,700 US. Feb 2018.

[@MrKnuckles8978]

Guard chicken...

[@jjinternationaljjinternati3688]

Bro where are you from country and town if possible I want to meet you

[@garzaglass]

what was the dollar amount you made?

[@MetallicEnderman]

I also would like to know this. Plenty of scrap!

[@vincentjay6286]

106kg Laptops $159 55 Screens $55 79kg PSUs $35 686kg Hard Drives $1029 54kg High Grade $270 548kg Mobos $3630 223kg Mid $440 64kg Low $20 52kg Laptop Mobo $300

[@geoffupton]

Vincent Jay really? 😳😱

[@ifeanyiokorie8757]

I have dead laptop motherboard fr sale

[@nateallen1769]

First do I win some gold?

[@LatheWerks]

CHICKEN

[@Imblyatman]

You need to quit smoking mate you don't sound too good

[@pressplay1703]

The business seems so destructive, all about making some money, nothing compared to the money made using a brain to create and make the stuff being thrown away. If only their were some videos teaching how you could be more constructive with it, all that stuff was millions worth of technology and it will be turned into a few hundred quid for an individual.