went t5o the yard yesterday, didn't know weather to laugh or cry

**auminer** · 04-23-2013, 08:02 PM

Sorry to revive such an old thread... I just did a search for the word cry & this thread popped up first.

Why that keyword, you ask?

Well pull up a chair & I'll tell you why.

I took a measly load to the yard today. Ferrous, some sheet aluminum, some wire too small to ever bother stripping, tv PCBs,... you know: bulky junk.

As I'm waiting to weigh my stuff I glance around at some of the other trucks & their loads. I presume it's socially acceptable to do so at the yard, unlike, say for example: in the restroom.

Lo & behold, next to me I spy a guy with bags& bags& bags of cabling with cat5 connectors on the end. I smirk at his laziness for not cutting them off & getting gold connector price.

Then... (man I'ma cry again...) he pulls out a HUGE.... HUGE...HUGE bag FULL of ram. THOUSANDS of sticks of it. The scale guy said he wasn't sure what to price it as, but he thought it was 2 bucks a pound. The guy said, "REALLY!!! I got lots more here, too... SWEET!!"

My lunch almost came up.

Should I have intervened? Should I have waited til he went to cash in & surreptitiously handed him my card? As it was, I was speechless.

**badkarma506** · 04-23-2013, 10:35 PM

you should have gave him your card, and told him you pay atleast 4 a lb. and then went and found the yard manager and told him that you would like to buy all the ram the other dude brought in, @ atleast 6 a lb.

**504Scrapping** · 04-24-2013, 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by auminer

Then... (man I'ma cry again...) he pulls out a HUGE.... HUGE...HUGE bag FULL of ram. THOUSANDS of sticks of it. The scale guy said he wasn't sure what to price it as, but he thought it was 2 bucks a pound. The guy said, "REALLY!!! I got lots more here, too... SWEET!!"

My lunch almost came up.

Should I have intervened? Should I have waited til he went to cash in & surreptitiously handed him my card? As it was, I was speechless.

I recently found a yard around me that purchased ewaste. I called the guy and was talking to him about prices and told him I had a bunch of TV boards and when I started naming the other boards I had, motherboards, ram etc. he cut me off and said I'll buy the TV boards for .18 and all the green ones for .25. Needless to say he just gets my TV boards, but when I went over there they had at least one box that I saw full of mixed beautiful green looking boards that I'm sure they paid a pretty quarter a pound. It is what it is I guess.