This is something that really PO's me with yards. If you try to talk to them business to business, they wont give you the time of day. "Oh we don't sell, we buy", "You need to talk to head office - a million miles away", "We're not interested in dealing locally".
All responses I've had. Buy some stuff off the other scrappers while waiting 30 trucks deep at the scale, and you're an outcast. I stick to handing out cards now, and sometimes a price list. I understand they want to protect their monopoly, but just don't get why they refuse to deal with a local processor and make more money. I attribute a lot of this to the demise of the small independent yards.
Don't give up Dunemaul. Like you said the demand is there. And as you know scrappers like to talk and word will get out you buy for more money.
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