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Gold from Electronic, Telecommunication & Computer Scrap Part 2: Winning the Contract Sponsors Sponsors Gold from Electronic, Telecommunication & Computer Scrap Part 2 RecyclingSecrets.com by Michael Meuser This is the 2nd in an ongoing series of articles about my experience in the electronic salvage, recycling and gold recovery business. In my last post I began the story of how I got into the electronics, telecommunications and computer recycling / gold recovery business. I'll tell you a bit more about it here. This seeming very small "tip" I got from the telecommunication workers turned out to be a virtual gold mine for me and my family. Up until the time I met these guys, all of their scrap from upgrades and repairs to telecommunication microwave repeater stations in Nevada went into the local landfills. But, because of the upgrade across the state from tube type repeater radios to solid state, the amount of scrap was just too much to handle in this manner. They told me that they thought the scrap was going up for bid and that I should contact the local office about it. I first, though, wanted to know what it was that I was bidding on. So, I went to the local office, told them of my intentions and they gave me a key to a repeater station and told me to take notes, samples, talk to workers - in short do whatever it took to make a reasonable bid that I could live with. I headed to Nevada with my very used dodge van. I brought back samples of microwave tubing (beautiful pure copper rectangular tubing with brass flanges), large batteries for their backup power, gold plated attentuators, connectors and the like and many many photos of gigantic steel racks, radios racks of extruded aluminum, etc. etc. Turns out that the company just wanted a flat per pound bid for everything but the batteries and then a separate bid for the batteries. Batteries at the time were very low in value and, in fact, becoming hard to find anyone who would take them for scrap at all. I asked if I could just bid on everything else and leave the batteries behind and was told no - it was all or nothing. Sponsors I was also told that I would probably be the only contractor to bid - they clearly were not interested in the revenue, they just wanted the stuff out of there. I bid only 1 cent per pound on the batteries and just a few cents on the rest. I was awarded the contract. I still remember the local office guy saying, "are you sure you can handle this?" and me saying, "sure, no problem at all." When I got into my van and drove back home I was in a daze. I thought, how in the world am I going to do this? The bits and pieces quickly came to me - fortunately I had grown up with a can-do attitude - a crucial part of your mental makeup if you are going to be a successful recycler / salvager. click here for part 3. Click here to learn how you can make the money that you need and want in this home-based business. <-- Recycling Secrets <-- Home Based Salvage & Recycling Business Michael Meuser bootstrapped his way into the salvage and recycling business in the early 1980s. He began with building deconstruction and scrap metals and then moved into electronics, computer and telecommunications scrap where he learned to recover gold and other precious metal. Michael tells his story, provides resources and offers his advice at his website, RecyclingSecrets.com, and his blog, Recycling Secrets Blog. Recently Mike completed the eBook How to Make Money in the Home Based Salvage and Recycling Business. It is a chronicle of his experiences, successes and failures in the business. Also, you can follow Michael on Twitter. Email Mike Return to: Recycling Secrets Sponsors

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