It is definitely a game (like trying to get some "action" at 5 am). It is no better selling to larger fish. I just brought 1500 lbs of copper to Denver and somehow about 5 lbs of #2 was buried in my bare bright, I must have missed a barrel toss. Man, they looked at me long and hard, I felt like s.... The rest of the load was o.k...then I watch them dump it all in the same bin!! The Chinese like to buy percentage loads and their army of unpaid ex-farmers super cleans it for like $1.20 a day. Talk about a long 24 hrs..I prepared the copper from 10 am to 9pm Sunday, then up at 5am drove 120 miles, sold material, drove back, opened the yard till 5 pm. Fell asleep with dinner in my lap. My shoulder hurts so bad it is freaking me out a bit. Tomorrow back at it, buying,sorting,preping...