Old post but still going, love it ....
Well lead car batteries is where I'm making my re-entry back into the scrap world.
I buy batteries for cash and I also sell the ones I can recondition and I scrap the rest.
Those I sell batteries to provide a trade in battery or they pay a $10 core fee which has not yet happened.
Right now my local interstate dealer buys my scrap batteries for $8 each or .27lb when I have a truck load. (so I try to wait).
I sell my reconditioned batteries to consumers for $40 with a 12 month warranty (prorated towards another battery) plus I get back the battery.
I have a small stash of batteries right now for sale and initially I was only selling one or two here and there but in the past few weeks, some good local flyer placement, craigslist ads daily and reaching out to a few key local and lateral business types has made this a business :-) worth working.
The other big thing I started doing was delivery and install within a local range this has almost doubled my sales @ $50.
For now I am working out of a storage unit but as soon as I can find a safe spot in a bad neighborhood (you hear me right) I am moving.
Aside from more buyers the thing I am on the hunt for is better lead scrap pricing......
Anyway there's a few more things involved but that's where I am at.
Geaux Scrap
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