I had this happen to me in Spring of 2010, and thought I would pass it along so others can be aware.
I had a lot of commercial mailboxes, 30 some boxes and each box had between 15 and 35 mailboxes.
Anyways they were mostly aluminum, with rivets and steel rods, springs, etc holding them and the doors together. So to get top dollar I spent a week tearing them all apart.
Separated the steel which I think maybe amounted to 50 lbs, into a box. Then I separated the heavier aluminum bars/doors into a few other boxes, and then the remainder of the trailer load was all alum sheet. I mean this was a 7x14 dump trailer with 6 foot sides and I had it 80% full of sheet, so how this got past the operator, I don't know...so anyways I take it all in. The guys start sifting through what I had sorted. They get that all done, weigh it, then have me drive onto the scale for the trailer load. I dump the alum sheet and go in to get paid.
Came in around $600 bucks which I thought was low/disappointing, and I left. Got to looking at the receipt, and they had the scale weight as steel.
I go back in and he said "I just assumed it was steel. It nearly always is if it comes across the scale".
So another $450 or something came my way.
Just a heads up to keep an eye on what's happening. I assumed they knew what I brought in and they assumed otherwise.
Speaking of keeping an eye on guys. At another yard they tried to stiff me on a few pounds of copper. (It wasn't on the ticket). Not much, but you really have to keep your eye on some of these yards.
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