It only occured to me yesterday that the main reason why people are getting bigger loads from people giving away scrapmetal, than they were originally quoted in the first phone call.
Is that the people giving away the scrap are 'quoting low' because they don't want you to think that what they have is possibly worth stealing, or etc. They don't want to be a target for scrapmetal thieves.
ie,
They are saying "Its only a old oven & a broken fridge". Then when you turn up, they see you are honest & not going to harm, steal or cheat them, so they then pull out whatever else scrapmetal that they have.
And then, they are so relieved that yah honest, that they go looking for any other metal they could possibly even consider as scrapmetal.
Its possibly a huge weight off their shoulders (sic) and the relief that all has gone right in the end.
Makes chasing up those little deals worth it, I guess.
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