These battery prices low?

Originally Posted by Bryson

Bout an hour from both san antonio and austin. Only thing is i only have 5 batteries, wouldnt really be worth the trip now i guess.

Save em up til you have 2 dozen or so and it'll be worth the trip ! I have to drive bout an hour to get decent money out of my mine so I just stockpile til I have at least 1000# or so.

That's ridiculous. I've never, in the ten years I've been buying batteries, heard ANYONE paying that low. At the lowest, I paid half again that and I'd sell to any scrap yard for a profit.

In San Antonio it's not uncommon for them to be 12-16 cents per #. BEST I've seen lately was 20 cents. Just a crappy market around here. There was a guy paying 10 bucks per battery a while back, but you had to have more than 10 and meet him waaaay down on the southside. Too far for me to make it profitable.

Holy CRAP.. .08 cents? That is robbery without a gun.. I get .38 on a low period and .42/lb on the high side. Keep shopping mate! I'd rather sit on em than give em to them for .08/lb!
Start looking around for "CORE BUYERS" in your area.. not scrap yards. You'll never get what you do from a Core buyer at a scrap yard!

Its a double edged sword living in a city. You get great pricing and dont have to go far to sell, but you have a lot more competition... I guess it evens out In the end.

Jon, I am the battery king. Id to think so. You sound like many of my friends, howfar you really from Leominster. lol.=

Id tell you all the secrets but Ill stick to loads. Yes you sell them in truck loads like every other high end seller would. Direct to a smelter,theres a few on East coast and Right below Montreal.

Its like any load. 43k 18 pallets and you guys getting .25 thats my door price. Guy doing .35 you just go that price today or you sell 8k lbs a day or more cus your buyer who is slamming out 40 t0 80 a week to get a price above .40 Thats the scrap end. Yes you guys pulling a quater a pound are getting over 10 a batt. 36 pound average. Cost a seller for pallets times 18 four carboard. at 3 bucks each per pallet thats 12 bucks and lots of thick wrap.

I use to sell direct and some months pull a 250,ooo lbs. Then weeks that I dont buy any. Since I got sick a few years ago my volume is ****ty for me. But most guys would be too weak to move this many a day. Come try it.

Drive a truck load 4 pallets by and stack and remove then go through them again then weight wrap and go drop. Why am I dropping Im capital short. Its been a tough two years for volume and $ Keeping it together though.

After doing 1200 batts you moved three times im luck to make what a walmart guy or gal does. LOL but many people eat off that. Batteries is heavy lifting volume and lucky now to make .05 Some one come to my shop and fund my load so I dont have to do all this work to sell each day just to flip money. Im doing truck load volume now just sell ltl.

Im free to say this even though it took me years to learn. It all out there now. Look at scrap monster. Cool you can see the LME and just take thrity something percent off it.

I know a way to make money in batts that you get paid 2 dollars a pound and have done it easy. All about having the $$.

I love batteries.

Starting to love electronics. That is paying the bills to. You can do my volume with a 33k gvw trucka nd out a warehouse but never sell truck load. And save all your money instead of overhead. etc. etc. I made more in an toyota pick up paying 3 bucks a batt. Now thats my high margin as scrap. lol.

If you love batteries and in new England come call and see me. More than we all can buy. Every car and electronic device that needs current for more than a few minutes needs lead. 100 year old tech and still the best and same. Above ground supply a batt is equal to 12,000 lbs of ore. I was told by a person in the know. Interesting. So getting them back is wicked important. Think 25 dollar core is what interstate or jci thinks a batt is worth. Thats it to them but us scrappers it 13 to 15 most. I remember a dollar or take it.

Aaron. Oh I learned it all from others. Im dropped out hs. You guys are smarter than me. Just work and the country and Karma will bless you. Be jerk or screw around you get your ass kicked. I know. I made mistakes.