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    griff5693 is offline Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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    Yeah ok you may think your winning but your a few laps behind
    A few laps behind first place is dozen laps past you. Keep it coming griff. You know what happens, this keeps going.

    Never claimed to be winning however I have and always will claim to be a winner. I know noone on this forum and would never try to put them in catagories....until now...you have your own little catagory you may very well be a #3 scrapper but your #1 I'm my book.I could (and probably will) go on but for now I'll stop to keep from being banned. We all know what opinions are like....we all have one


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    Quote Originally Posted by griff5693 View Post
    Never claimed to be winning however I have and always will claim to be a winner. I know noone on this forum and would never try to put them in catagories....until now...you have your own little catagory you may very well be a #3 scrapper but your #1 I'm my book.I could (and probably will) go on but for now I'll stop to keep from being banned. We all know what opinions are like....we all have one
    This is not a post about franchise help. There is not franchise opportunity available.
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    COMMON MAN, don't use the term Level 1 as a derogatory thing, cant you see thats whats caused this whole rant. Lets see if mob calls you out on it.
    I want you to read what you wrote, so you understand exactly how you sound, I'm going to comment so there is no doubt what I mean.

    First you stated:

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    Level 1 Scrapper = I get my scrap from the streets, its almost always free. I make about $50-500 a week.
    "get my scrap from the streets" sounds derogatory in of itself. And to assume that people who do only make between $50-500 a week is also offensive. I know people who canvas with flyers and pick up on specific days who make far more.

    But this is what qualifies the feeling that you are demeaning people of this level you have labelled them to be:

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    The only way I see it possible is to start at level 3 and progress to 4 and beyond. This means a substantial investment into the business
    What you are saying is that anyone who doesn't start at level 3 or 4 and investing a substantial amount of money, is a failure in your opinion, after all it's "The only way I see it possible" as you state.\

    Can you not see why reasonable people would take offense to what you have said? Just apologize and move on so we can discuss things of more value. Stop trying to defend something so easily fixed.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Tcgs View Post
    COMMON MAN, don't use the term Level 1 as a derogatory thing, cant you see thats whats caused this whole rant. Lets see if mob calls you out on it.
    No, these words from your initial post "What we have is a flood of bad scrappers" is what has caused this rant. JMHO.

    There are so many scrappers here on so many different levels, I don't think you see that with the wording of your original post.

    Starting with the guy that works a full time job and makes some money on the side by picking and tearing down on the weekend, moving on to the guy that wants to better his scrapping to a higher level, but still be a street scrapper. I'll bet we even have people on here that don't care a lick about bringing in any scrap from other sources at all, but just want to properly recycle their own waste and maybe make a few dollars at it while saving it from the landfill. None of these guys are "wantrapeneurs" (your word), These are guys that have no desire to make a business out of it, but it helps them all in different ways. It does not make them a "bad scrapper" (your words again).

    I can see some reason to your post, but those points are what has caused a stir.

    And for the record, not as a moderator, but as a member, the mob is calling you out, not the other way around.
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