I put all my scrap steel, mostly lightgauge, into washing machine casings & computer & microwave cases & stack them up.
Once theres enough, i organise somebody with a towing vehicle and a trailer & we take it to the scrap buyers & split the $.
Last time, two loads of ~650Kgs got us NZ$30 each load, a few days apart, i gave them the $.
Today, i had a bigger load & the guy had a mesh sided trailer & the 3 of us filled it, we estimated over 700Kgs & $30-$40. One load, all of it gone.
Sweet.
Not.
One guy comes back for a visit, says they didnt even get $$ for it.
They had weighed up on the scale, went where directed, unloaded it all, went over the scales again, went to the payout booth, uh
"Sorry, we dont pay out for lightgauge anymore, oh, it was 860Kgs".
So they got NZ$0.00 for it. Thats US$0.00
**** ! I will check with the scrap yard & if thats correct, will give the guy with the trailer $20 & the helper $10.
Since in reality they did take my 'rubbish' away for me.
Thats bad. Its went from getting paid for scrapmetal, to having to pay to get rid of it.
And it was all good clean lightgauge, near to no plastic, no more than 1 Kg.
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