Given the market, why are the newest scrappers even bothering?

Originally Posted by Roudeleiw

We are no paid no more for shred in france and belgium, you can unload it at the scrap-yard but you don't get paid, i think there will be a lot scrappers who will stop their hobby...

I definitely won't be dropping anything off for free! I think if that happened around here, those in the know would figure out real fast that if you leave it at the curb, someone will pick it up. What I mean is, if I took a load in and they said they weren't paying me for it I would take the hit and then start leaving gutted items at the curb and chuckle to myself about how the person that picked it up would be learning a hard lesson shortly.

Clean metal has dropped to under .06/lb here and I was to afraid to look at shred but I imagine it's down near .04/lb now.



I was looking at my receipt today and did some quick math: today $51.00 (some wire, clean metal, ewaste and Al), a year ago would have been close to, if not over, $80! FML!

Originally Posted by AdmiralAluminum

I definitely won't be dropping anything off for free! I think if that happened around here, those in the know would figure out real fast that if you leave it at the curb, someone will pick it up. What I mean is, if I took a load in and they said they weren't paying me for it I would take the hit and then start leaving gutted items at the curb and chuckle to myself about how the person that picked it up would be learning a hard lesson shortly.

Clean metal has dropped to under .06/lb here and I was to afraid to look at shred but I imagine it's down near .04/lb now.

I was looking at my receipt today and did some quick math: today $51.00 (some wire, clean metal, ewaste and Al), a year ago would have been close to, if not over, $80! FML!

I just did a quick guesstimate on my last receipt, and, using prices from one year ago, I would have had about $400 instead of $300