the yard raped me yesterday!

Yesterday I went to my local scrap yard and they were closed all week and don't open till next week. I always go around 4. There are two other yards close by. The first i I try is already closed Cuz they close at at 4. The last chance we got is this place called metal recycling and they close at 4:30. my girlfriend called them and kept them on the phone so they wouldnt close on us. It's 4:20 and we got a 20 min ride to get there. I have my truck loaded up and my friends truck loaded up. All the employees were ready to go. They rushed us, mixed all my separate aluminum piles in one bin. I had a ton of number 1 copper and they poured it into my number two pile. I had about 1000lbs of tin. Knobody speaks English and I'm getting pissed. To make a long story short they payed me for 75lbs of tin. dirty aluminum, and number 2 copper. They rushed me out of there to close and when they pay me 129 dollars I knew something wasn't right. I'm looking at the ticket trying to figure out what was wrong. It was a cluster ****! They made us leave because of closing. I didn't figure out where they screwed me other then my aluminum and copper untill we were down the road and i had a chance to study the tickit they gave me. I think i lost about 300 bucks yesterday. I worked my ass off just to get burnt. Its not like i can call hey you didnt pay me for all my stuff. Idk had to vent. Im still pissed off at this place

Lesson learned next time don't leave until you are satisfied. I know they were rushing you out but the fact is that they will keep doing it until you push back. Hope it goes better next time for you. At least it narrows down what yards you will use.

Yeah no kidding! I used them along time ago but stopped and couldn't remember why. Now I remember......

Hopefully this gets out around yalls community of scrappers and they will all boycott them.

I go to my yard between 9:30am or 11:00am and its usually pertty slow. I learned after those times is when the tweekers come in and the place is a mad house. And going on saturdays, Forget it. I waited in line for about 45 mins once just to get paid and about 20 mins to get to the shred pile.

The last chance we got is this place called metal recycling and they close at 4:30. my girlfriend called them and kept them on the phone so they wouldnt close on us. It's 4:20 and we got a 20 min ride to get there.

So, if I'm reading this right, you got there after closing time?

They shouldn't have cheated you, they should've told you what time they open the next morning.

Make sure you avoid lunchtime too. Hauled in a load of shred one day, not paying attention to the time. Get there its noon. Trucks are lined up at the scale (one on the scale) and we can see the workers inside eating sandwiches. There was a waste of 45 mins

Originally Posted by lastchance

Yesterday I went to my local scrap yard and they were closed all week and don't open till next week. I always go around 4. There are two other yards close by. The first i I try is already closed Cuz they close at at 4. The last chance we got is this place called metal recycling and they close at 4:30. my girlfriend called them and kept them on the phone so they wouldnt close on us. It's 4:20 and we got a 20 min ride to get there. I have my truck loaded up and my friends truck loaded up. All the employees were ready to go. They rushed us, mixed all my separate aluminum piles in one bin. I had a ton of number 1 copper and they poured it into my number two pile. I had about 1000lbs of tin. Knobody speaks English and I'm getting pissed. To make a long story short they payed me for 75lbs of tin. dirty aluminum, and number 2 copper. They rushed me out of there to close and when they pay me 129 dollars I knew something wasn't right. I'm looking at the ticket trying to figure out what was wrong. It was a cluster ****! They made us leave because of closing. I didn't figure out where they screwed me other then my aluminum and copper untill we were down the road and i had a chance to study the tickit they gave me. I think i lost about 300 bucks yesterday. I worked my ass off just to get burnt. Its not like i can call hey you didnt pay me for all my stuff. Idk had to vent. Im still pissed off at this place

Hate to say this you deserved the treatment you got and have no right to feel pissed because you tried to manipulate the yard by that telephone call now they have to pay thier employees overtime for your stunt.

Manipulate????? Explain how they were manipulated! I had 2 truckloads and everything sorted in tubs. we got to the yard and the workers were cool with it. We asked if we should come back? They said no back on in! I don't ever go at closing time. The yard I go to closes at 5. The place I ended up having to go to closed at 430 and we go there 10 mind late. They let us in. Noone was manipulated just robbed!

If they told you to come in then closing time is no excuse for poor service. The yard wasn't forced to take his load. If anything go to your regular yard.

Oh yeah and don't be late.

Manipulate????? Explain how they were manipulated!

my girlfriend called them and kept them on the phone so they wouldnt close on us.

That's kinda the meaning I took too...

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When she was on the phone with them we let them know where we were at and asked if we should come and they said yes......... they said they couldn't gurrente they would still be open however we never close on time. So we went...... I knew better but did it anyway cuz I wanted to see what they pay, etc...... plus I didn't wana unload both trucks and reload it on Monday. If I knew they were gonna just bunch my stuff together and pay me for 75 lbs of tin when I had over 900 I would of just waited.