How much do self pull junkyards pay per vehicle at auction?

**Need4racin** · 10-20-2013, 02:05 AM

What are the self pull junkyards paying per vehicle otd at auctions, I'm guessing $200-325 per vehicle? High end being trucks and suv. Any word on what someone has seen personally?

**Mick** · 10-20-2013, 07:38 AM

Pretty good guess. When I was planning on starting a used car business, I went to a "private" auction and watched good, running cars sell for average of $500 each. Cars pulled/pushed in about $200. My mistake was trying to get a bidder number. I wasn't asked to leave - I was told to leave "right now". Couldn't even buy lunch before I left.

**KzScrapper** · 10-20-2013, 08:10 AM

Not sure about what they are paying at auction but they will come get most cars from Joe Blow and pay 300-400 bucks in most cases....need to be complete though.

**MattInTheHat** · 10-20-2013, 08:30 AM

the one by me buys them for a little over shred

**nuttingbutjunk** · 10-20-2013, 09:43 AM

Don't know what junk cars r bringing now at the auctions but several years ago I bought some nuggets for a dollar a piece... The last vehice I bought for junk I think I give 400 for it....

**scrapping4ever** · 10-20-2013, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by Mick

Pretty good guess. When I was planning on starting a used car business, I went to a "private" auction and watched good, running cars sell for average of $500 each. Cars pulled/pushed in about $200. My mistake was trying to get a bidder number. I wasn't asked to leave - I was told to leave "right now". Couldn't even buy lunch before I left.

Why did you have to leave? Was it a dealer only auction?

**Mick** · 10-20-2013, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by scrapping4ever

Why did you have to leave? Was it a dealer only auction?

Yes. A dealer friend of mine told me about it but neglected to tell me I needed a dealer license number to bid. Like everything else I've done since I "retired", I didn't know ANYTHING about the industry and was learning through research and "trial and error". Including freight brokering and scrap metal.

**IdahoScrapper** · 10-20-2013, 07:22 PM

I went to a public auto auction recently. They started with the non runners (which went for stupid money) and only got worse from there. I left about a 1/4 of the way in. Although in hindsight maybe towards the end there could have been a deal or two to be had, since everyone blew their money in the beginning.