Quote Originally Posted by greytruck View Post
I learned from a guy that the bigger yards dont always pay the most. i use to think they did. He also said that yards in the "cities" pay less for stuff because of the poverty levels and can get away with it cause the people are ganna sell it at what ever the price cause they need the cash.

Like i sold my S. units the other week, Smaller yard was at .15/lb and the bigger yard that has 4 locations in the area was paying .08/lb
Also, inner cities yards are more expensive to run (land, wages, taxes, fuel used to move everything out of town...) and it is reflected on the prices. Up here, that's true for smaller downtown yards. On the other hand, major yards in the city are located off expressways in large industrial parks and generally pay more, because they want the volume and there's more competition between them. I don't like to go there, because they're always very busy, they're located far from me and traffic/road construction/bridge/tunnel is too time consuming. If I have an exceptional large quantity of extrusion aluminum or copper, I can go there, but it needs to definitely cover the difference in gas and time.



In my case, I was in the suburbs and in the area I usually operate in/from. IHMO, their price was just pure corporate greed. Anyway, as I previously said, it was an one-shot deal and it is done. I will s*ck it up and move on to something else.