Quote Originally Posted by JJinLV View Post
Set your margin by your sales price minus your costs. So how much is a 43000lb load in a container going to cost you to ship from the DMV to Pakistan? What price is your brother buying it at? If the container is going to cost $3000 to ship? That means for a full 43000lb container load it's going to cost you $.07/lb just for the sea freight. So if you can buy that $.15/lb for $.22/lb, you'll need to sell it for .29/lb at least just to cover the sea freight (which varies in price). You make an offer based upon your sales price minus costs. Really if you're gonna be buying and selling anything you should know that already.
Yeah it seems that alot of these question are kinda amateur......Possibly start small and see how the scrap industry actually operates.....I've been doing this 10 years and watching/learning and I still really have very little knowledge about the top of the food chain in this industry....seems to be some well guarded secrets