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    Talking Zore's Metal Recycling - New to Site!

    Zore’s Recycling is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our scrap yard offers a wide range of recycling services, such as metal processing, junk car buying, and all types of recycling! On top of our recycling program, Zore’s takes part in local community services as well. We offer our compound for police training, first response unit training, and fire department exercises and training. We also sponsor multiple high school sports teams and donate our trucks for town parades, proms, homecoming games, and more. As a recycling business, we believe it is important to express your gratitude to the community you care about. Here at Zore’s Recycling in Indianapolis, Indiana, we care about our community and the preservation of our Earth’s environment too.

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    Welcome to the forum ZoresIndy. Enjoy your stay.


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    Welcome! It sounds like your company is run by a smart businessman. I also believe in business giving back as much as possible to the local community while also giving them as much free info. It creates this local demand for your product or services that competitors just can't come close to touching. As long as you deliver on the product or service then you got a successful business.

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    Called zores the other day and asked for a scrap price on pewter (when I thought I had some)stock price on tin at that time was 9.21lb. The buyer said .50 cents a lb. now I know I wouldnt get near 9.21 but really 50 cents???

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    Quote Originally Posted by griff5693 View Post
    Called zores the other day and asked for a scrap price on pewter (when I thought I had some)stock price on tin at that time was 9.21lb. The buyer said .50 cents a lb. now I know I wouldnt get near 9.21 but really 50 cents???
    Most buyers are like that. It is all about profit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GeorgeB View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by griff5693 View Post
    Called zores the other day and asked for a scrap price on pewter (when I thought I had some)stock price on tin at that time was 9.21lb. The buyer said .50 cents a lb. now I know I wouldnt get near 9.21 but really 50 cents???
    Most buyers are like that. It is all about profit.
    That low of a price just made me know where not to call for my other items

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    Quote Originally Posted by griff5693 View Post
    That low of a price just made me know where not to call for my other items
    If you want a higher price, it is simple. Either be directly connected to the end buyer of the product, or as close to it as possible.

    For all anyone knows, whoever they sell to, sell to someone else, who sells to someone else, etc. Which would explain why they only offer 50lb

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    Orrrrrrrr.....

    A bigger reason is because without proof you can't prove its not lead. You will have a hard finding anyone to pay for good pewter because without working knowledge it's all lead. Until you touch the 20 or so different kinds of "pewter" it's hard to understand.

    I know I sound like a broken record on this, and I'm probably pissing off a lot of people. But I've been studying pewter for the last two or three years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gangel View Post
    A bigger reason is because without proof you can't prove its not lead. You will have a hard finding anyone to pay for good pewter because without working knowledge it's all lead. Until you touch the 20 or so different kinds of "pewter" it's hard to understand.

    I know I sound like a broken record on this, and I'm probably pissing off a lot of people. But I've been studying pewter for the last two or three years.
    Wouldn't an XRF solve this? No yards near me have one but that just seems wreckless/a loss of business.

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    Why don't you have a gun? It isn't reckless if they offer less for unknowns. The amount of stuff that comes through that needs to be gunned is pretty small. There is another reason about a gun but I gotta read up on them.

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    XRF Guns don't come cheap costing tens of thousands...I'm fortunate that my yard has one and doesn't mind breaking it out. Last Pewter like material I brought in a couple of years ago went for $3ish # and they used the gun to help with the ID.
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    You were also lucky they had a market. Most won't pay pewter price because they don't get enough to justify it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by griff5693 View Post
    That low of a price just made me know where not to call for my other items
    IMO, one pricing call on an oddball, very limited market material, is not a good basis to judge a yard on. Again, just my opinion. Try them/get prices on the usual materials like tin/shred, prepared steel, the various grades of copper and aluminum, etc., or whatever you commonly haul, and -then- rate or compare them. I mean, that particular yard may only deal with a tiny amount of similar material over the course of business, so they may have to sit on it for a long time before they have enough to sell. So they'll buy it at a price that they know they'll make money and sell it eventually.

    A good example is 400 series stainless steel, which is magnetic. I end up with a fair bit of it, but it's not that common, and not very well known. I had a pretty tough time finding -anyone- who would give me anything for it above tin price. I tried one yard, that I didn't normally deal with. The boss wasn't there, so the office staff sent me out to talk to the guy who ran their non-ferrous shed. Not the buyer/pricing guy, just the guy who normally unloads/grades the stuff. He told me that; "Yeah, this metal here, the stainless steel molecules have actually been driven out of this steel by the heat.", after hitting it with a magnet. /boggle. I s**t you not, that's what he actually said.

    So going by your advice, I would never have been seen at this yard again. However, they seemed pretty decent on some other prices, and so I started hauling them stuff. Now they get a big chunk of my business. They even buy my 400 stainless. I'm not saying that's going to definitely be your experience as well, I'm just saying don't discount them because of that particular material.

    Oh yeah, and welcome ZoresIndy!
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    Zito you make a good point.ill give them a try with a few other items.it was kinda hypacritical (spelled right ?) Of me.i always tell my daughter to not judge someone on first experience and they always have been a good junk yard.

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    I had a look at their website, quite impressive!

    They tend towards car recycling & offer a price over the phone & with free pickup. But thats only a part of their operation....

    Since they have been around since 1927.......1927! I don't even know anybody who's been around that long.
    They have aquired other standalone buisnesses to add to their work and varity.


    No current prices (who has? the prices have shifted around so much in the last month it'd be hard to quote a fixed price) on the website but they have a current 'up to date' list you can call/email for, easy.

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    Since this thread began, I have done business with Zore's. Haven't sold any ferrous, but in the non-ferrous building the buyers were pleasant, fair, professional, and efficient. I sold computer power supplies for a very competitive price...they beat the local competition by almost a dime. Looking forward to bringing them more, unfortunately for me I am in the Eastside and they are West of Speedway so I will generally do business with closer yards for ferrous.


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