Warning* before you start a scrap metal business consider this - Page 6

Let me say this to the OP, not only have you p o'ed a good portion of this forum, you also lost the interest of the one person that could have helped you. I will say this for Noblemetalworks, when he says he is interested in your business and how you started it he is not bull****ting you. I have had dealings with Scott and have sought out advice from him in the past, which he has freely given to me. He is very knowledgeable and genuine in his responses and is willing to share information with anyone he can help.
So in closing I would like to say this to the OP and quote a favorite movie line--- Sir, in a battle of wits you have come unarmed.

Originally Posted by Tcgs

SO you guys can hate on me even more,

I started my first greentruck store in Nov. 2012.

Built it completely organically, or should I say with no initial investment other than my time.

We scrap over 50 tons a month. Contracts guaranteed.

I run a blue truck and also a green truck, but still not a corprate ***** ! I guess whatever floats your boat is fine with me but I fly by the seat of my pants scrapping and love every minute of it ! I am just a "part timer" for now, hey a family mans gotta have insurance! Don't get it twisted tcgs you might as well be punching a time clock ever morning ! How much scrillar you toss out every year just to keep "your" franchise ? They make all the rules and you know that, might as well be working in a scrap yard that charges you for the fuel and oxygen you burn each day, it's the same thing. And btw who are you exactly To say what "level" I'm on ?

Originally Posted by Youareallidiots

Noble... pm me... Think Mirror Recovery Silver...

There's a section in here called introduce yourself, it will please many to put in a post there like the rest of us have. Thanks

Originally Posted by Youareallidiots

Won't be here long enough to worry about it. But thanks anyways.

Interesting how one logs off, this guy comes on and wants noble to pm him......maybe the admin can compare ip addreses?

Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER

Interesting how one logs off, this guy comes on and wants noble to pm him......maybe the admin can compare ip addreses?

Well, with a username like that, I can see your thinkin. Hmmmmmm.

Originally Posted by Youareallidiots

Noble... pm me... Think Mirror Recovery Silver...

You can PM me if you would like, I don't block anyone, you don't have to friend me, I'm very public and out in the open.

If you are going to message me about mirrors however, I don't recover silver from mirrors. Most of the new mirrors don't use silver, and the ones that have been made with silver are expensive to start with and usually very ornate, and hold their value.

Now if you wanted to talk about x-ray film, that's a totally different story and a much better avenue for generating silver from scrap.

If you lost my email, and would like to email me directly, you can do so at scottbrown@noble-metalworks.com

Scott

Originally Posted by Youareallidiots

Yes, you've justed busted a big Spy Ring involving mirrors. We can't afford the smoke part yet, we're working out that.... So we're just calling ourselves "Mirrors". When we can afford smoke, we'll call ourselves "Smoke and Mirrors". Don't worry too much, I just lost his email and this is the only way for me to get a hold of him.

Thanks for the laugh.

Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER

Let me say this to the OP, not only have you p o'ed a good portion of this forum, you also lost the interest of the one person that could have helped you. I will say this for Noblemetalworks, when he says he is interested in your business and how you started it he is not bull****ting you. I have had dealings with Scott and have sought out advice from him in the past, which he has freely given to me. He is very knowledgeable and genuine in his responses and is willing to share information with anyone he can help.
So in closing I would like to say this to the OP and quote a favorite movie line--- Sir, in a battle of wits you have come unarmed.

Thank you for saying this, I feel funny whenever someone says something about me, but I also feel I should thank you. When someone says something about me like this, it makes me want to come back and try to help a lot more. So truly thank you. And while I'm thanking, you have done a fair bit to help me as well, and according to how other people talk about you, you have helped many people yourself. So while giving me thanks, take some yourself.

Scott

I'm lucky, where I live I used to own a grocery store. Whenever I caught shoplifters, no matter what their age being that they were kids, or adults, I made them call their mothers, then I would talk to their mothers for a few minutes, and turn the phone back over to the shoplifter and watch them explain to their mother how they just got caught for shoplifting. You see I would give them the choice of either calling their mother, or I could call the police. When I did call the police I usually had already made the shoplifter admit that they came into my store with the intent of stealing, and it was usually over $400 worth of stuff, which is a felony in California, so by making sure I had them on a felony shop lifting, and a felony intent to steal, I made it worth the police officers time and effort to come down to the store and arrest the offender, the way they saw it was that they were sure to get a conviction instead of the usual ticket, release for a petty crime and later have it reduced to something that just required probably or community service. Police don't like being harassed for no good reason, or for what is a waste of time when they could be doing something more useful. So I got to know them, and they appreciate the fact I didn't call them on every little thing.

So far as the harassment thing is concerned, I don't think the OP realizes what he was saying, nor what he was doing. When I was looking up his business I came across another by the same name.

Green Truck - Organic Food Truck, Catering, Weddings, Private Parties

The OP would be far more likely to be sued for using their company name, and then posting what he has on this thread, than I would be for harassing. I am not sure how many different laws he could be entangled with, but with all the negative attention I have to wonder if someone will not get one confused with the other, ending up with one of the others customers coming here and reading what he wrote and potentially harming their business and/or credibility.

Just saying...

Scott

Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER

Interesting how one logs off, this guy comes on and wants noble to pm him......maybe the admin can compare ip addreses?

Thank you for looking out, it's appreciated.

I ended up knowing who he is, he's good people, he just doesn't want to be involved with some of the things that happen on this forum and I can't blame him for that.

Just wanted to clear that up, and thank you for looking out.

Scott

Originally Posted by happyscraper

WOW!! I smell BS, dose anyone else smell BS, I smell BS. (BS= bad scrapper)

BS = Bad Scrapper... Lol.. Now that is funny...

Scott

Wow.

I was going to say that this thread had turned into a morass of stupid... but upon reflection, I'd have to say it pretty much started there.