The Recycling Entrepreneur Newsletter

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(c) Scott D. Andrews 2004 January - February, 2004

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1. Announcements & Commentary Welcome, if you're a new subscriber to our publication. Welcome back, if you've been a faithful reader for some time. Regardless, this is just a reminder to let you know all the back issues are archived for your reading enjoyment at: http://recyclebiz.com/the_recycling_entrepreneur_newsletter.html Well, it has (again) been too long since I last sent you this newsletter.

So much is happening in the world of metals and recycling that it is hard to try to stay on top of it, much less relay it to you in a timely manner. Unfortunately, (or perhaps, fortunately), adverse news tends to have a positive effect on the value of the metals, especially the precious metals.

Having studied the precious metals for the better part of 30 years now (about the same amount of time I've been involved in recycling), I tend to look at events in a macro-economic sense, and see far-reaching implications in everyday stories. If you spend ANY time looking at the front page of your daily newspaper, you know what I mean by adverse news. But sometimes you must read between the lines, and sometimes you realize there aren't any lines to read between, and that can be even more relevant and ominous.

One example: The Federal Reserve chairman comes out publicly stating we will print as many dollars as is necessary to support the economy. Reaction? Ho-hum. Who cares? "Stock market rebounds!" Now is the time to reinvest in stocks... Market undervalued!

The most powerful economic figure in the world (for the time being, at least) as much as states his (and the administration's) blatant intent to destroy the currency of the US, and the press sucks up to them and feeds us the usual tripe about how good everything is economically and job-wise.

The house of cards remains standing  ...for this week, at least.

Example two: Precious metals reach their 24-year high. Platinum over $900, silver up to $7( up from $4.37 11 months ago), gold solidly in the high-300 range. Yawn.... The typical press treats it as a non-story. The war against real money is stronger than the war against manipulation, by far.

Example three: As metals (commodities such as zinc and copper) continue to skyrocket, and the dollars becomes weaker, it will soon (this calendar year) be more expensive for the government to mint (manufacture) pennies and nickels than the value of the coin! In 2001 it cost Uncle Sam 0.80 cents to mint a penny (pennies are 97.5% zinc) and it cost 0.98 cents in 2003.

This year it WILL cost more than a cent to make a cent. Even our government will eventually see that its a losing proposition to continue to make pennies out of something with intrinsic value.

Nickels? They're mainly copper! Let's see... one year ago is cost the government (that's US, supposedly) 3.78 cents to manufacture a nickel. Between the crash of the US Dollar, and a 62% increase in the price of copper, even a government employee (like a senator or congressman) will eventually realize there's something wrong with this picture.

I remember as a young kid when those ugly plain silver coins were replaced by those neat copper-sandwich coins. How cool we thought that was - getting "new, more attractive" coins. I'll tell you, there is little more attractive to me today than pre-1965 silver coins - the last real money we had.

The basic theorem of Austrian Economics - that bad money will ALWAYS drive out good money - is being proven for the SECOND time in my lifetime. Shortly, we will be making the statement that the last "real money" we had was pennies and nickels - money with real intrinsic value, and not the empty promises of elected officials. The government WILL eventually make new "money" from something even cheaper - like plastic. I'm willing to bet a roll of "real money" nickels that it will happen sooner rather than later.

Know what I find most interesting? It is all so predictable! The old maxim about those not aware of history are doomed to repeat is nowhere more true than in economics. Some things are absolutely predictable - not the short-term actions, but the long-term results and implications. This is why, to be successful and secure, one must act immediately but for long-term results. By nature, we as humans think and act for the short term, looking for the fast return and to make a quick killing.

The good news?

You do not have to play the game by "their" rules. You can educate yourself, evaluate where sound opportunities exist, invest in yourself and your abilities, and take action which will lead you in your own direction, and not the one that others wish for you. Yes, you may fail short-term, but over the long run you are sure to succeed, IF you learn from your failures.

The one thing you must realize and engrain in your thinking, is that there is no real freedom without having economic freedom. Economic freedom is the result of acting in one's own interest for the long run. It is the result of investments in one's self, one's family, one's God and belief systems, and organizations which you support religiously and/or philosophically.

In other words, there is no economic freedom without charity becoming an integral part of your being. This, in my mind, is not an either/or proposition. I am talking specifically about making an ongoing investment in ALL these things, not just yourself and your family. Without being an active benefactor and giving back to your community, you're not a contributing member of society.

And if all you are giving to the most important individuals in your life - your family - is financial support, you are no better than the chronic welfare recipient, as far as building and strengthening society.

What your family needs more than money is your TIME - which is really the ultimate form of financial freedom. You can make lots of money doing almost anything and spending enough time doing it, but to provide the most important things to your family - your time and undivided attention - requires a great deal more self-control and wisdom than does making a lot of money.

I suggest making that a primary goal in your life, rather than the accumulation of assets. Financial freedom is also the ability to live within one's means while still being able to make these investments in the things which matter. You will find the rewards in doing so are much longer lasting and infinitely more satisfying.

Just my two (soon to be three) cents worth....... I will climb down off my soapbox now and tell you of some other stuff we're working on. I'm currently evaluating a revolutionary new SPAM filtering system at a very modest price. I suspect that you, like myself, are just plain tired of going through dozens, if not hundreds, of junk emails daily. Even having over 150 rules set up to filter my daily deluge of email, I spend at least half an hour scanning everything to be sure I haven't deleted some thing of value.

Should this system prove more effective and as efficient as it looks, you'll be among the first to know, so you can make that decision yourself.

If you have not bought from us before, but are still interested in recycling, cell phones are currently the biggest, least competitive opportunity today. Getting these devices and turning them into income is like shooting fish in a barrel - it'll never be this easy again! 

By the end of this week we'll have a major update to the Catalytic Converter chapter. The new "steel mantle", or "wrap", or "foil" converters are becoming more and more common, and present both a danger and an opportunity for profit.

They are a danger if you don't know what they are, what they are worth, and how they differ from traditional 'cats'. Fortunately, we have found the premier company dealing in these units, and will give you full details including, for your education, how the refining of these units is carried out. This is a completely different process than with the ceramic substrates. The PGM values are also substantially different - we'll tell you how different. As always, the updates are available FREE online to current manual owners.

And, later in this issue, a brand new opportunity. With the price increases in PGM's, some marginal items are now worth processing. I'll tell you about an item which is even more ubiquitous than converters, and which have been thrown away for years because nobody had the technology to recover their values profitably.

So keep reading... By the way, here are some links you might want to follow to familiarize yourself with the site:

http://recyclebiz.com/discus - open to all to read/view; posting can be done by owners (and those already registered) of the "High-Profit Recycling" manuals (or any of the individual chapters) only

http://recyclebiz.com/weblog/blogger.html - Stay up to date with the latest news in the world of recycling as well as my own thoughts and ruminations

http://recyclebiz.com/the_recycling_entrepreneur_newsletter.html - the past issues of this newsletter - good reading for real recyclers

http://recyclebiz.com/frequently_asked_questions.html - Our FAQ - if your question isn't answered, ASK US!

http://recyclebiz.com/metals_and_alloys.html - a number of rare BoM reports, articles on recycling, and stuff you're not likely to find anywhere else, including "Recycle Thermonuclear Devices for Fun & Profit"

And, of course, PLEASE visit here: http://recyclebiz.com/online%20order%20form.html

2. Your Success - My Reward 
I am thankful I am in a business that just keeps getting better for myself and everybody I am able to reach with my message. At least everybody I am able to successfully reach with my message. OK, you say, what is my version of "successfully reaching my readers"?

Naturally, I am profit-driven, being an entrepreneur, and every sale of my product rewards me financially. Frankly, I am not so altruistic that I would do what I do without that reward. And I do not expect you to purchase my product without gaining full value for your investment, and then some.

But "successfully reaching my customer" is more than receiving money for services provided. Once in a while a "one-per-center" takes some time out of their busy (and profitable) day to express gratitude for what they have received in return for their investment. I am always deeply touched when this happens, as I am always impressed when people go out into the marketplace and prove what I've taught them is true.

I want to share with you verbatim, an email I received just last week from Richard, who lives in a small community in the Southeast United States. If you own the manual, you'll perhaps remember the story in the Introduction about a gentleman who located and was given a truckload of old copper cable by his then-employer, and profited to the tune of a few thousand dollars in less than one week's time.

This is the same individual:

"Scott, I just wanted to stop for a moment and say thank you for giving me the opportunity to be my own boss. This is the best feeling. You see, I am an electrician by trade and I have been traveling around the country working different construction projects for over 10 years now. At first as a young man it was kind of neat to get to see different places and get paid for it. But after my first child was born it became very hard to leave my wife and child for 3/6 mo. at a time. WE live in a rural community and opportunity is very limited to say the least. Many attempts to work for myself as an electrician never lasted for very long due to the competition of 3 other contractors in a town of less than 7000 residents. To earn the income we needed I seemed destined to live on the road away from my family. After selling some copper that I had collected I was impressed with the money I received for it, and a light bulb came on in my head. I started contacting different contractors about buying their scrap metals. I also started searching the internet for information on industrial contracts. What I found was a wealth of information on recycling called RECYCLEBIZ.COM. You just don’t know how much we needed this. From the first of this year until now I have taken in over $8000. With no end in sight! I have a couple of sources for scrap base metals and that’s great but thanks to you I now have other sources of income. Including 52 personal accounts for empty ink/toner cartridges, one scout troop collecting used cell phones and cartridges, and I am taking in about 50 cats. A week. And the best thing is business is now calling me! I can’t thank you enough. We have sent one box of phones to cellforcash. My wife sent them in and did not send them thru your affiliate. SORRY that will not happen again. I do need some info. On your other affiliates, Well thanks again for all your help and if there is anything I can ever do to help you, just let me know. Thanks, Richard "

And from another participant in our Discussion Forum:

"This is why i love doing this so much. Unlike other things, i can, like flexyman said, sit in front of the tv and just cut away. And so much of this stuff is just being thrown away. Where i live, there's two recyclers. Me and some other family that only does cats and the scrap metal from the car frames. They don't bother with the spark plugs, or much of anything else. O2 sensors, after a quick call yesterday, are all going to me now, so are plugs, what few airbag sensors they get, and a variety of other stuff. The computer scrap in my city is basically up for grabs, since i don't have enough time to get too all of it."

My friend, this is one of the easiest businesses in the world! Regardless of where you are located, people are throwing away valuable scrap every single day - stuff which YOU could be making a good income from.

Even the things that aren't being thrown away are items which they have no idea as to how to get decent money for them - things like scrap gold jewelry, dental gold, platinum items, etc, etc. The main thing I want to point out is that, once you have spent the requisite time establishing yourself as the subject expert in your area, customers will start calling YOU!

I'll tell you, there is nothing like having people ask you to take their money. And when they are calling you, how easy is it to tell them you'll give them more cash for their old, unwanted jewelry and other karat gold items than they can get elsewhere in your community? And how easy is it to ask them to advise their neighbors, and their civic and fraternal organizations, and their co-workers, or even their employees, to take advantage of your services? This can be a business, if you work it intelligently (the way I teach you) with ZERO sales resistance!

3. "O2 Sensors" - A NEW Opportunity
Oxygen sensors (O2 sensors) have been around almost as long as catalytic converters and are an integral part of every gas-powered automobiles emissions system. As a matter of fact, every car with OBDII (On-Board Diagnostics - System II) has a total of three or four O2 sensors which read data on fuel and oxygen ratios in different parts of the intake and exhaust streams. This data is fed to one or more processors (computers) and these ratios are adjusted accordingly. What make these sensors effective is platinum - pure platinum in the form of a tiny electrode at the tip of the sensor.

Until now, the amount of platinum used in a sensor was too small, and the processing costs too high, to justify recycling these units. However, through the confluence of new technology and substantially higher platinum prices (the highest in over twenty years), a new recycling business is about to be born. By the end of this summer a well-established platinum refining company will have started production in its new O2 sensor recovery system - and you will be getting access to the complete details on this new business before anyone else has an opportunity to profit.

Bear in mind that these units have NEVER been recycled, and anyone working with them has been paying someone to dispose of them along with their other waste products. Anything you can offer them for them is infinitely more than they have ever been able to get for them before! How difficult do you think it would be to simply get them to start saving them for you until they have a five gallon bucket full of them? All you have to do is ASK.

If, once you know how much you can pay for them, they no longer feel it is worth it to save them, they'll stop doing it. The chances of this happening are about nil if they can't get anything for them from anyone else. The reason I am telling you this is so you can get a jump on the market NOW, and have garages, auto dealer service departments, service stations, and other auto repair facilities start saving them for you. You'll find that you might only pick up a 5-gallon bucket of them from an account every 6 months or so - they are not a high volume item.

And, in answer to your inevitable question, no, I cannot tell you, or even give a hint as to their ultimate value per unit or per pound. I will NOT be the company buying them, and I do not have the entire story on this opportunity yet. Once I do, I'll be putting it into a report which will NOT be an update to the manual. Hence, it will NOT be a free upgrade.

It will, however, be sold at half-price to current owners of the manual at the time it is published. If you've never bought from us, expect to pay $50 for this new report, or $25 if you've already invested in our materials before.

We will be introducing other new and little-known scrap recycling opportunities in the next year or so as well - so there has really never been a better or more profitable time to get your home-based recycling business established. Not only do we have more opp's coming on line, but this precious metals boom has only just begun.

I was recycling gold, silver, and platinum in the 1979-1981 era when the last boom took place - so I have seen it firsthand before. And I can assure you, this is not technically a boom period. It is only the beginning of a long-term and substantial rise in the precious metals markets. They will go down, and then up, and probably down again before they take off.

The sure sign that we're in a real BOOM is that "everybody and their brother" is going to be out there trying to make a killing off scrap precious metals in whatever form they can find it. Are you going to be there first, or will you be an "also-ran"?

4. What? Don't Tell Me You're Getting a Tax Refund!
You hear it all the time this time of year: Congratulations! You're getting a tax refund! People look at this as if you had come some stroke of good fortune, instead of what it REALLY is: sloppy and irresponsible economics and lack of financial acumen.

Most people look at a tax refund as a windfall, and for many it is the ONLY form of savings they have. But that is even a misnomer, because when they get it they already have plans to spend every cent of it and then some. If this describes you, I've only got one thing to say to you: "Get an education!"

I'm amazed at the number of people who are getting $2,000 or more BACK from the government and look at it as if they were actually getting a gift from Uncle Sam. Wake up! If this is YOU, all it means is that you've loaned some politicians YOUR money, interest-free, for the better part of the year. Boy, you're REALLY smart.

Want to turn your life around? Take that $150 -$200 per MONTH you're loaning the government for free and start buying scrap with it. Buy $200 of scrap stuff each month and sell it for double (or more) what you paid for it. Can you add? Multiply?

Get out your trusty calculator and figure it out - don't (for the sake of simplicity) even consider compounding it by investing the profits you made each month - just multiply $2,000 by TWO.

Hey, genius, as a reward for turning your financial life around, take the $2,000 you actually earned the first year and spend it like you would have if the government gifted it back to you - like you always believed they were doing.

But take that first $2,000 - you know, the money you refused to lend to the government interest-free, and use it AND the next year's gift from the politicians and (guess what?) BUY MORE SCRAP!

Hmmm... now you've got $8,000 to blow on a new wide-screen TV or waste in 'Vegas.

But wait, Scott, I HAVE to give this money to the government. If I don't, the IRS is going to hassle me, and I don't want to go through THAT! Let me set you straight: the only thing the IRS is going to hassle you about is underpaying your taxes by a substantial amount. As a matter of fact, if you do it the right way, the government is going to allow you to make the first few years income from this scenario completely TAX-FREE!

They are going to allow you to write off thousands in car expenses (even more if you use two cars in your home business), office and business equipment, insurance for yourself and your spouse and/or children, a part of your mortgage or rent, utilities, travel (yes, even vacations if you do it the right way), dining, entertainment, and many other things. This is what people with financial savvy call a no-brainer.

Unfortunately, it is what people who get thousands of dollars "back" every year from the government call "work" - and that is what keeps you from doing it. The other thing that keeps people from doing this is not knowing where to start. Obviously, I can tell you in no uncertain terms and without fail, how to find and "invest" in the scrap - doubling your money easily within a year (or a day, or a week, or a month...). That should be worth a measly hundred bucks, easily, wouldn't you say?

As this is your lucky day (since you've read this far), I can tell you how to get started keeping your money from Uncle Sam - and it won't cost you a cent to put this tactic in place. Jeez, I ought to charge you at least a hundred bucks just out of principle! Then you'd at least realize the value in what I'm telling you.

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This is the most intelligent way to turn your financial life around. Painless, risk-free, and fast - you'll be on your way to actually making progress instead of thinking and dreaming about "someday" when you have enough money to get started. All it takes is a small change in mindset and the realization that without doing something just a little different from what you've always done, you're always going to get the same results you have today. Are you really happy with that?

5. Economic Warfare - One Reason America Is Becoming a Second-Rate Power
It is no secret that America, and the rest of the industrialized world, is under attack. 9/11 only underscored this - it has been going on for some time, even though certain countries are still in a state of denial, trying to believe that negotiation and capitulation are the way to deal with these attacks.

However, the paramilitary siege we find ourselves under is but the tip of the iceberg. We increasingly become more and more dependent upon regimes and societies which are blatantly hostile towards us as a society and those things we cherish - things we take for granted such as the right and ability to determine for ourselves what we should do.

Frankly, we have been selling our rights, our security, and our children's future for cheap oil and cheap products for too long to reverse the trend. Our well-being and survival as a society is in more danger from economic forces which very few people are aware of, than from the danger and fear of terrorist activities.

To paraphrase Marx - he who controls a country's currency ultimately controls the country. We are increasingly coming under the control of nations and even religions hostile to us through our economic institutions.

The average person on the street (or in the unemployment line) has no inkling as to the forces being used against us, as they are doing it with our blessings. Read the articles attached to these two links. I do not relate these to you to endorse the products being sold - I simply believe they reveal things the average citizen has no idea are going on -nor how they will affect our societies as a whole in the very near future.

You don't have to believe everything being said. Just read them and then look for the signs and indications that even a small part of these scenarios is accurate. If this isn't a wake-up call to get started TODAY in developing a sideline or a whole new profession, changing what you've always done in favor of a more rewarding, productive, and secure lifestyle, please take advantage of the unsubscribe link at the bottom of this newsletter. We're just not on the same wavelength.

Here's the links: http://www.agora-inc.com/reports/DRI/china339/ ;
http://www.agora-inc.com/reports/OST/DRguest/

Well, I think we'll wind it up for this version of "The Recycling Entrepreneur". Let me know if you have questions, concerns, or would simply like to see a topic covered or an interest addressed in the next issue. And please visit the forum to take advantage of the variety of experience and knowledge exhibited there - this is YOUR resource.

If you ever think you MIGHT want to get input from other experienced recyclers through this support system, and have never bought from us before, register NOW!

You will be "grandfathered in" and able to participate and ask and answer questions. After April 1 you will have to be a paid customer to take advantage of the ongoing support and advice the Forum provides.

The ability to actively participate in the Forum will then be what it was always planned to be- a benefit to those with the determination to act on the knowledge we provide. Hope you'll be one of those select few. With Warm Regards - Scott Andrews

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