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    Took in 600 LBs of futon beds broke down, did i mess up?

    day before i took the stuff in i seen an iron board.so i put it with the pile and the scrap yard ended up giving me all tin prices. 12 dollars i may have screwed my self. what type metal would be futon beds anyway i thought maybe steel at least orlight iron maybe?



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    ohhh man.... that sucks dude.. you should have gotten iron and you really got screwed over buddy... sorry....

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    well sure was happy last time when iwent in the cans are up 70 cents a pound. i had a gut feeling that was gonna happen. i wonder about those guys at standard in okc somtimes. but just so easy to get in an out.

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    yeaa i never get a whole "tin" or whatever my yard either oes iron clean light iron, heavy steel, light steel, and so on

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    What is an "Iron Board"? Or do you mean ironing board? If so, then tin price is right.
    People may laugh at me, but that's ok. I laugh all the way to the bank.

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    yes, but he should have seperated the tin out of the rest of the beds and the frame and whatnot.

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    im not sure about this one but arent futon frames just like really thin metal pipe, if so then wouldnt that be considered tin or light iron? i mean if its a regular bed frame they are a little thicker and heavier, but i think futon frames are just really light. basically what im trying to say is that the futon frames and the ironing board would have been classified the same at my yard, but all yards have different names for classification.

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    yes ironing board and i had taken time to break those frames down and stage them too, so bad idea placing that one tin piece in the back with the rest

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    you could be right guess ill have to ask them another thing i should of done, well im starting out getting all this down now

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    Bed frames are Light Iron (tin) around here, anyway. Light Iron and Tin are the same thing.

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    thanks a lot for the help on here

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    you only got 12 bucks? you would have got $57 at my local yard

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    i was thinking that should of been at least $40 we are little lower then up north on everything about.

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    Did you get a receipt? That is awfully low.

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    i calculated it out and thats 2 cents a pound. its 0.0950 a pound for light iron up here right now. where are you at?

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    oklahoma city, reciept said all tin

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    All that would have been counted as a small load of tin here, but it would have been 45 bucks.

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    Would have been $57 here. I would have to wonder why they are screwing you over.

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    Take the receipt back and ARGUE.

    Seriously. They screwed you HARD, or made a SERIOUS mistake.

    The futon frames are tin, simply because they are so thin. But for that much you should gotten somewhere between $50-$60.

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    thanks and i hope to get better at this. last time was in took in 6 bags of cans and got 70 cents a pound so it was prob my fault. made 32 bucs


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