Originally Posted by
griff5693
That low of a price just made me know where not to call for my other items
IMO, one pricing call on an oddball, very limited market material, is not a good basis to judge a yard on. Again, just my opinion. Try them/get prices on the usual materials like tin/shred, prepared steel, the various grades of copper and aluminum, etc., or whatever you commonly haul, and -then- rate or compare them. I mean, that particular yard may only deal with a tiny amount of similar material over the course of business, so they may have to sit on it for a long time before they have enough to sell. So they'll buy it at a price that they know they'll make money and sell it eventually.
A good example is 400 series stainless steel, which is magnetic. I end up with a fair bit of it, but it's not that common, and not very well known. I had a pretty tough time finding -anyone- who would give me anything for it above tin price. I tried one yard, that I didn't normally deal with. The boss wasn't there, so the office staff sent me out to talk to the guy who ran their non-ferrous shed. Not the buyer/pricing guy, just the guy who normally unloads/grades the stuff. He told me that; "Yeah, this metal here, the stainless steel molecules have actually been driven out of this steel by the heat.", after hitting it with a magnet. /boggle. I s**t you not, that's what he actually said.
So going by your advice, I would never have been seen at this yard again. However, they seemed pretty decent on some other prices, and so I started hauling them stuff. Now they get a big chunk of my business. They even buy my 400 stainless. I'm not saying that's going to definitely be your experience as well, I'm just saying don't discount them because of that particular material.
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