help with getting paid right

[glorycloud]

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Is there an adult anywhere to be found in this ridiculous thread??
Let it go!!!!!!! Man up and just choose to quit the "*** for tat" garbage.

Geez!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[Palladium]

I like his resolve. 8)

 

[Harold_V]

Chris has done an admirable job of putting readers on notice in this thread. As a result, I've chosen to stay out----but my patience is running thin with people that think it's a requirement to justify bad behavior, and especially to insist on getting in the last word.

Name calling is not acceptable on this forum, Neither is ignoring an admonition to behave when it comes from a moderator or the administrator. Both are grounds for banishment.

The next one to post a comment is going to get banned, and that's a promise.

As you've been advised by one of our better readers, step up to the plate and get on with life. Otherwise you won't be spending any more of your time on this forum.

We are a gathering of respectable individuals here, a gathering that demands respect. If any reader finds that price too much to pay, please leave. I have no use for clever people that think they're still in junior high. Childish and boorish behavior is not going to be tolerated.

Harold

 

[Chumbawamba]

Harold, not sure if you meant that no one can add to this thread any longer on threat of being banished, but since comments were directed at me I feel I have a justified right to respond (in a civil manner).

This is ridiculous. First of all, the only photo I saw was in the first post of this thread, and to me it looked like a typical backplane with what look liked gold-plated pins. I don't know if that's supposed to be considered "high grade" but I wouldn't consider it to be. I run an electronics recycling business so I know a little bit of what I speak. Most of the guys I deal with are meatheads that don't know much about electronic scrap other than what the downstream guy is willing to pay them. I usually end up having to correct the guys I bring my material to and educate them about electronics and scrap values. They don't care. It's all based on what the downstream guy tells them they will pay for what I bring them.

But at any rate, considering the costs involved in extracting any values out of such a board, I think $1/lbs as scrap is reasonable for that board, certainly in my market. The excerpt from the E-Scrap Newsletter that glorycloud posted is probably the best price indicator for typical circuit board scrap. As he posted in his message, the nearly $5/lbs figure is explained as follows:

"This data represents the full metallic values of boards over time and are not the recycling values, as those values do not include the costs involved in actually extracting metal from boards, including freight, sampling charges, assay assessments, smelting, refining, process loss, return on investment, and penalties for various elements, including beryllium, bismuth and nickel."

So as others have indicated, if sh3030 is getting $5/lbs for his circuit boards then I want to know who your buyer is as well, and I would offer you TWO dollars a pound for every pound I sell, as that would still give me a dollar over what I typically get for the "high grade" circuit boards I sell (or used to, I plan to process them myself from now on).

This whole thing got blown way out of proportion, and others have succinctly said what I would have about hope and expectation, so I'll just end my late contribution here.

 

[Harold_V]

Harold, not sure if you meant that no one can add to this thread any longer on threat of being banished, but since comments were directed at me I feel I have a justified right to respond (in a civil manner).

I have no problems with a perfectly acceptable informational reply. What I have a problem with is anyone calling you, or others, names, them justifying it as if they are right, and you are wrong.

Readers need to understand that the only way a forum like this can keep its viability is to not allow goons to make unwarranted comments. Before anyone jumps to conclusions and asks about my choice of words (goons), understand I am not directing this comment at anyone in particular, just readership in general.

If, at any time, a reader feels they have been unjustly accused, their wisest choice of action is to contact one of the moderators. Starting a match of wits isn't the solution.

I have always offered myself as a sacrificial person here, knowing that my presence isn't a requirement for me, or my future. I have no axe to grind, and don't care if I make enemies of those that refuse to behave. Feel free to make me your man if you choose, to keep readers that may result from a mixed camp from copping an attitude towards Lou, Chris and Steve. I'll gladly handle any problems, including banning a reader that doesn't comply with the rules we've set forth.

This is a damned good forum, one on which a complete idiot can spend time and learn to process precious metals and expect acceptable results. I know of no other place on the internet where that is true. I have no intentions of allowing a few morons to ruin it for the masses. That includes my policing of misinformation, or misleading comments.

As my sig line says, "fools talk because they have to say something".

Harold

 

[Chumbawamba]

Well, I was away (from the forum) for the past week and missed the fireworks, which is probably for the better, but either way I don't think I would've gotten upset. The whole argument was silly. Someone asked for an opinion and I gave one based on my true experience. I don't really care to get in a pissing match if someone doesn't agree. That would be their problem.

Anywhoo...