Interesting phone call offering scrap batteries

**Mick** · 03-21-2013, 02:41 PM

Just hung up from a phone call. Caller wanted to know what I paid for batteries. Caller ID said it was from California. Figured maybe it was a cell phone and he'd just moved here. Told him "$4 for car and light truck". He asked "What if I said I had 60 tons?". I'd gotten a similar call awhile ago about a large shipment of batteries at the naval shipyard here in Maine so I asked him where the batteries are located. They're in his backyard in Wisconsin. Told him he'd need a licensed broker familiar with overseas shipment.

How do people get this stuff without knowing how to move it?

**parrothead** · 03-21-2013, 03:25 PM

odd to say the least.

**ron22** · 03-21-2013, 04:29 PM

So he has about 120000lbs of batteries if they average 35lbs each that is 3429 batteries.
If you pay him $4 each that is $13,716
My yard pays $0.28 for batteries so $33,600
You would profit almot $20K
Now does this guy really have 60tons of batteries in his back yard? Does he have a clue what 60tons of batteries really is?

**ron22** · 03-21-2013, 04:30 PM

Maybe I sould call him it would only take me about 40 trips to bring this this in.

**sledge** · 03-21-2013, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by ron22

Now does this guy really have 60tons of batteries in his back yard? Does he have a clue what 60tons of batteries really is?

Like you took the words right out of my mouth!!

**Libertytow** · 03-21-2013, 04:42 PM

i get calls like this all the time they are a scam usually the next line is please go to western union so we can start the transaction

yeah i"ll get right on that

**IdahoScrapper** · 03-21-2013, 06:20 PM

Google the phone number.

**ryanw** · 03-21-2013, 06:24 PM

It was probably not the person's number. You can spoof the caller ID.

**ron22** · 03-21-2013, 06:47 PM

Originally Posted by Libertytow

i get calls like this all the time they are a scam usually the next line is please go to western union so we can start the transaction

yeah i"ll get right on that

Are you telling me I will not get the 5million from my dead Nigerian uncle that I never knew I had

Better keep scrapping.

**Sirscrapalot** · 03-21-2013, 07:58 PM

Wait..you got a Nigerian uncle to? Man thats freaky, we could be like related! I must have been the favorite though, cause he left me $10,000,000.

Sirscrapalot - In the 13th century, Europeans baptized their children with beer.

**Immulmen** · 03-22-2013, 07:01 AM

"Sirscrapalot - In the 13th century, Europeans baptized their children with beer."

Because water could make you sick!
Beer.......the oldest written recipe!

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