Originally Posted by
Metalbestos
Have you done business with them prior to this ? If they were in hot water in 2012 why would you use them as opposed to the many qualified buyers on this forum ? Something doesn't sound right about this to me .
Rant time...
This post is something else. I agree that the OP should have done his due diligence and conducted better research before sending a load but why pus the dependence on the forum's buyers? While SMF is truly blessed to have a few really good buyers on the forum, buyers don't work for free. The desire to side-step a middleman to go straight to a smelter/refiner/end user is the reason capitalism works in this country. Who wants their hard earned product to be taxed by a middle man? It's so inflammatory to suggest that because someone is industrious enough to attempt to climb to the next level of the game that "something doesn't sound right." Being scared to rise your business up and grown screams lack of ambition.
A man will NEVER get rich selling to a middle man because that person HAS to take some for himself. Of course I have used one myself, just like every other person on this forum has, but the desire to grow past that is the american dream man! Every move I make for Electrowaste Recycling is an attempt to grow. My first shop was 2,300 sq ft., my next one was 6,800 which seemed like overkill. June 15th we move into a building that is over 70,000sq feet. I went from no
forklift, to a lift but no dock, to 5 lifts and 8 docks. ALL IN AN ATTEMPT to cut out the middle man! I want to be able to negotiate full truckloads of EVERYTHING! I started shipping small boxes and now I'll have 5 docks exclusively to stage trucks. I'm not bragging I'm just saying that I am all in and when I have a chance to bypass the middle man I am going to take it. No need to begrudge a man for taking a chance and falling flat; at least he took a chance.
Jeremy
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