- People have no clue what it takes to haul their stuff
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
TMI (too much information) in your ad. Customers don't need to know what current scrap prices are unless you are competing for the aluminum can market. Better to describe your services and basic pricing. And maybe something like "call to find out if you qualify for a free pickup".
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I have an VOA Home I pick up many things Unless it is a couch or a big CRT I never charge , I just like the stories and cookies !!
Old dogs care about you even when you make mistakes;
God bless little children while they're still too young to hate
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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Sounds like a good idea. I have never charged however I have done pick ups for a fee. I hauled a 2000 gallon water tank to scrap for a lady who not only paid for my gas and time she gave me a bunch of really neat old road and advertisement signs plus about a hundred pounds of heavy aluminum angle. When I resume my ads I will re-word them using your suggestions. Might just work to help weed out the undesirables. The ones who get mad when I won't drop what I am doing and rush over to pick up their old worthless water heater. .Originally Posted by diesel1
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I run into the same "ton of stuff" people on occasion. I now ask them to text me pictures of it if they can of the stuff they have. It works for me most of the time . It also give me an idea of what equipment I need to pick up the "ton of stuff"
I still don't usually turn down anything if I have the time because I am always trying to cultivate new customers and you never know what the next load will bring.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
Sometimes the occasion yields rewards far and beyond the initial purpose. For instance, I drove 50 miles pulling an empty 20 ft. trailer yesterday to take a load of bicycles across town to a scrapyard. The guy threw on a 4 cylinder motor to add to the load. It all yielded $17.25 of which I gave him $6.00. While at the yard, I collected a nice stainless steel bucket with a handle and some huge bolts that I'll give to a customer to use on his farm for hitchpins. Also saw a Murray riding mower at the yard which I need for steering parts and will have a chance to buy that.
Oh yes, my original purpose for travelling 50 miles was to bring home a load of crushed rock for my driveway and to take the wife to the chiropractor. Multitasking makes it work. How did I unload 2.74 ton of crushed rock? Kept driving the skidsteer on the trailer and taking loads off with the bucket until I got down to the last 100 lbs or so when the shovel and broom were necessary.
Did the wife help? No..........she just got a treatment. Remember ?
Last edited by Yunkman; 10-27-2016 at 01:34 PM.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
Pulling with a Dodge Ram 1500....................traded my 2500 off to my son.
How's the business still going?
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