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What sets the price of a used gaylord?
Footprint and height, wall count (thicker walls carry more), whether flaps and bottom are intact, and how clean and dry the box is. The bid form uses these conditions: like new, used (clean and sound), fair (marks, minor damage) and damaged.
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Box buy-back or bale?
A sound gaylord sold for reuse usually earns more than its weight as cardboard. A damaged one does not. Agree that rejected boxes are baled with your OCC rather than charged for, and that the buyer tells you how many were rejected.
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How should boxes be prepared?
Flattened and stacked on a pallet in counted bundles, dry, empty and free of tape-on liners if the buyer asks. Agree the count per bundle and per pickup.
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The clauses that matter most here
- § 1Material and specificationWhich grade you are selling, and the quality limits the buyer can hold you to.
- § 7Load minimumsThe minimum weight or count per pickup, and the charge for a light load.
- § 8Contamination and rejectionWhat happens when a load misses the specification: downgrade, claim or rejection.
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Questions
- Are damaged gaylord boxes worth anything?
- As baled cardboard, by weight. Agree that rejects are added to your OCC rather than charged for.