shock at the local yard today :

dont do much metal scrap any more except for e scrap perifials took a small bit to the local yard today for some quick cash.

#2 copper $2.30 down from $3.28

cast alu .30 down from .51

they are total rip off artists to begin with but this is total B.S.



I had about 50 lbs of server heat sinks that could only be extruded not cast, complete with extrusion lines on the side, they refused to give me any thing but cast price, so I didn't bother to tell them I will have 4 or 5000 lbs of them in about 2 months.

prices have took a hit over the last several weeks, we have been hoarding what we can and just selling our car bodies and extinguishers bodies enough to keep the cars coming in

Prices have taken a hit but extruded is still extruded. You don't like the prices go somewhere else or hoard but they should pay you for what you are selling. Good yards are honest and consistent. Good luck olddude. Extruded .60 by me lets talk shipping?

I go with duece2000, if you don't need to sell then hoard, it won't be long till it goes up again.
and if it's in the way you have bite the bullet and let it go.

This next week i'm switching gears to "hoard" mode at the shop. Going to set up the shop so i can easily and efficiently hoard, and keep my sell stuff going out.

since my space is rather limited i'm only hoarding circut boards made in USA and intel ceramic chips. but my local yard is really good about consistincy when your on the dealer price schedule.

No one is listening.

its the similar threads section at the bottom of the page, it got me again...

can we stop hoarding yet ?

I wish I could hoard some stuff but I need to keep the cash flow going. Seems like it goes out faster than it comes in. LOL

Originally Posted by Bear

can we stop hoarding yet ?

No, Bear! There's only enough episodes until the end of next month! Hoard faster!

Hoard with caution,I don't know how many of you guy's where scraping in 2008,Tin/shread went from $325.00 to $30.00 a ton most yards would not buy copper,or aluminum for any price because they could not find any buyers, containers that were shiped were rejucted in china and the shippers had to pay to ship the material back to the states it was a mess i bought a load of wire from gov Liq wire #2 ins was 1.10 in the same time fram that wire went to .18 it was a dump trailer full load,sold the wire for a big big loss after holding it for eight weeks so from that devastating loss i have learned to sell what you have and buy from the market conditions at hand not what you Think it is worth

myself included 1956, I can't afford to hoard, when I get a load, it's headed for a yard somewhere