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    This is why I work alone. It's very difficult to find anyone honest. I'm been burned too trying to help others. Taking your ideas and clients.


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    As long as you haven't signed anything. I would part ways. If you signed anything I would call my attorney first.
    Hang in there and learn from your mistake/s. Everybody has their price. I know what mine is, but thank God it has never been offered. Not sure I am strong enough to refuse it.
    When someone sells their integrity that cheap they will sell anything cheap.
    Get away from this partner quick.
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    I had my brother as my partner when we started scrapping and all was going smoothly for a while. The only thing I asked was for him to get on here and read and learn like I did. He liked the money aspect but never learned about different metals or put any time into networking or trying to find sources of scrap. It was at the point where in addition to the labor I was also making the contacts, placing the cl ads, watching and bidding on auctions and still splitting profits down the middle. As things progressed and I started exploring the refining aspect of ewaste he was still not committed to learning. So long story short is we ended the partnership on good terms before there were any problems that would affect out family relationship.
    A true partner has to be someone that is willing to do equal work for equal pay or someone that can contribute an aspect that the other may not be strong in.
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    You can equate partnerships to teams in many respects. Take hockey for instance...You can't have 20 goal scorers, you need someone willing to go in the corners and dig the puck out, you need the unselfish player that just want the point on the board, you need the player that can finish the play, when things go south you need your back-checkers to get things back on track and you need that guy to keep the puck out of your net.

    Coach figures out who is who and the roles they play...may not always make as much as the stars but has control, final say and knows how to keep the players focused.
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    Sorry guys didn't mean to abandon the thread have been busy working since this is a full time gig for me well actually scrapping is part time the other half is my ebay selling.
    Anyways been trying to save up to get a pickup.
    Long story short I suffer some anxiety and thus the reason I went partnership route was I always worried anxiety would flare up while driving so I didn't want to cause an accident
    and since he was happy with getting the metal and shares of the other goodies and gas money it was more or less a hand shake deal win win for all.
    Since he relied on word of the mouth and didn't want to have anything to do with computers I would do the advertising and when gigs came up that was all metal I would call him and give him the number and he took it from there.

    I dont do well with people who try to screw me over as im sure mike will attest im a straight shooter and expect the same in return and unfortunately in this case has taught me im better off going solo and maybe do a future limited one time deal type partnership only. Its pretty **** hard to trust people now days well live and learn I always say.


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