Scammed

**Haztech5** · 10-21-2014, 12:26 AM

I took 2300 lbs in two weeks ago got 0.0675/lb in Provo.

**MattyNoNeck** · 10-21-2014, 08:58 AM

I’m guessing this is why most yards don’t post their prices online or via iScrap. They figure if you don’t call ahead and you show up, then you might just say screw it and take whatever they’re paying. I know the main yard I go to pretty much always has the best tin/steel prices (best hours too) so I rarely bother to call. I only ask when I’m calling around for the non-ferrous prices because I already have them on the phone. It’s the non-ferrous stuff that fluctuates and varies widely from yard to yard. When I got copper and aluminum and motors and whatnot, I always call before I haul!

**davidarlen** · 10-21-2014, 11:06 AM

In San Diego CA I have been getting 8 1/2 Cents to 9 1/2 cents I usually go to the same yard a few times a month if I am lucky a few times a week. Sometimes when the scale operator fills out my ticket I comment on the price and he will raise it up 1 cent sometimes he does not I can not hurt to ask. I have been going there for years so I feel I am treated pretty fair. In a yard you do not use that often always ask for prices before you give away your scrap. One yard does not pay anything for scrap but as a favor they will let me drop it off, I do not use there service. If you do not like the way a yard treats you use another one, but do not burn your bridges with them you may want to go back in the future.