That's super thinking Bo, and Shen, there's untold things still perfectly good, antique, or whatever sold as scrap. Sadly enough, much of it is often being sold by other than it's rightful owner, but who can know for sure, as much pilfering goes on all around us every day, unknown to anybody but the offender and the victim, and You just can't tell the difference between good items that were pilfered and items that were merely part of a clean-out, but that would be the loss of the seller. Whether it's a loss to the seller or a pilfering victim was actually not the point I had intended to make though.
If you're going to pull items scrapped at scrap prices, and sell them as antiques, I wouldn't recommend doing it on the same property, or under the same company name, because people will catch on to that very quickly, and soon be wanting to know why you only paid them $5 (plus or minus) for the same item you've got marked at retail for $50(plus or minus) These prices are only examples, but I guess you get the idea. Very soon they'd stop coming to the scrap yard and begin instead to taking all their scrap to sell at the retail store.
I once was browsing through a thrifty nickels miscellaneous ads and came across two ads together that both had the same phone number. They had likely been placed during the same call, by someone thinking they'd be placed randomly at different locations in the paper. One said "We Buy Junk", the next said "We Sell Antiques", side by side, same phone number ; )
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