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I answered a craigslist ad last night and got a call back this morning, the only catch is that its a half hour away from me and my ford ranger is terrible on gas. Im including the ad so you guys can see what im talking about, apparently its a commercial "soda stand"
****FREE Metal Commercial Soda Stand ***
I have to be there by 10:30 if i want it so please give me a yes or no! thank you gentleman.
Wouldn't be worth it to me, but that is me.
Just depends on what your time is worth to you.
My time isnt worth anything at this point i just need money, Im just looking at my profit compared to my gas expense.
not worth 30 min drive
In my opinion I would go get it and hand out a biz card, flyer etc.....If he has this lying around mabye he has other stuff........To make money in this biz you have to spend money
Thats what i was figuring it looked like it wouldnt even be 100 pounds. Should i call back and say i cant make it? Or be a bit unprofessional and just not show?
Call back for sure!
or call back and ask if there is anythng else he may have that you could pick up since its so far away. You never know.
Since the pumps have to be food grade, they might be stainless. Worth a shot in the dark and he might have other stuff laying around.
Same thing really, in this business.Quote:
Originally Posted by matt018
even if you break even on the scrap... you may have a chance to network and explain what you can offer. tell him about what you take and talk about ewaste and other stuff.. he may have things lying around he didnt think you could scrap. if you're not doing anything else, why not go for it.
it also may have brass valves. just to push the margin a little
The other thing to think about is the more than scrap value. Thats called a syrup rack, and depending on lots of factors they are over 300 bucks new since that one looks like it has the pumps on it also. You might be able to sell it to someone that has a gas station, restaurant or anything else where they have fountain drinks.
WAIT THIS MIGHT BE WORTH MONEY. I work a crappy part time job at a Steak house and we have two of these, what you put on them is Boxes full of Soda starch or what ever you add water too to make the soda, but you put almost like 50 pound boxes of soda liquid on it and plug it in and it connect to a soda dispenser to dispense soda, like at McDonalds those when you fill the drink up yourself, one of those. It might be more then Scrap value.
Yes, this is worth money. Anywhere with fountain drinks uses these like Kochy said. All the pumps and lines look good. We have a bigger one at the chain restaurant I work at that holds 600 lbs. of concentrates. We get our equipment from a national account but "mom and pop" type smaller places might be looking for stuff locally. If he's got something like this, he might have more commercial grade stuff worth way over scrap value.
If you plan to go for it call him and ask to take the ad down. It secures it as yours that way. He could be telling 10 guys to show up at that time, and first guy gets it
If you told him you'd take it, you better get your ass over there! Don't be one of those Craigslist people who says "Yeah, I'll be there tomorrow" and then tomorrow rolls around and this guy waits all day for you only to be stood up. I can't stand that and if you are serious about scrapping, you've just made a bad name for yourself. Word spreads quickly.
Well i did go to pick it up, Unfortunately the pictures made it look allot better, The lines were cut and it made a hell of a sticky mess in my truck, I used way more gas then i should have to get it, Whatever you learn as you go.