took in scrap

i took in scrap and this is what i got for it

counted my radiator tubes as copper #1 1.60lbs got 4.80 is this a good price for #1?

copper #2 1.50lbs got 4.50

motor .06lbs no copper in it got .18 shred i think

brass 1.00lbs got 5.00

had a die cast handle and a stainless steel bowl he gave me stainless price .20lbs got .20

now here is the weird part he put all my aluminum as old sheet even the cans .25lbs got 28.25

did he rip me on the ali price? i know i lost out on the extrusion but that was on me i forgot to put it in a seperate container=(

he said all the ali was the same price. got 42.97 total

Al may be the same price at that yard. It may also be that in small quantities they may just toss it in one pile and give one price. If you had 100lbs of extruded and 100 lbs of cans then you may have gotten better pricing for each.

The yard I go to its all one price for Al and I've showed up with hundreds of pounds at a time. Other places it paid to separate it.

Keep reading the old threads and you will continue to gain knowledge. 73, Mike

$5 a pound for brass, $3 a pound for copper?

I would drive the 7~8hr to cash in my hoard for those prices.

And $28.25 for .25lbs of aluminum? That's $113 a pound!!!! I am all in.

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Originally Posted by mike1

now here is the weird part he put all my aluminum as old sheet even the cans .25lbs got 28.25

did he rip me on the ali price? i know i lost out on the extrusion but that was on me i forgot to put it in a seperate container=(

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I wish i could get those prices for aluminum. It's $0.37/lb here.

All your prices look good.

You'll never know for sure until you check the prices at other yards in your area.

I tend to collect my different metals in different sacks and when I want to sell something, I sell the sacks with the most metal in it.

We get paid by the Kg here, so if I was to take in 11lbs of metal, I would only get paid for 9 of them...
That's a extreme case, but in reality I could just expect that every sale I make is a average of 500gms over the Kg mark.
So I loose 1/2 a Kg in $ for every sale.
You could say you loose 1/2 a Lb for every sale too.
The more metal you sell in one go, the less you loose. Which also makes it important to get the best $/Lb/Kg for your metal.

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Originally Posted by kbl

$5 a pound for brass, $3 a pound for copper?

I would drive the 7~8hr to cash in my hoard for those prices.

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You are translating it wrong. $1/lb of brass got $5, so had 5 pounds of brass. $1.50/lb of CU#1 got $4.50, so had 3 pounds of CU#1.

Around me the al cans generally go for a few cents more than sheet al, but not always as it depends on which yard I go to.

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Originally Posted by Caveman

You are translating it wrong. $1/lb of brass got $5, so had 5 pounds of brass. $1.50/lb of CU#1 got $4.50, so had 3 pounds of CU#1.

Around me the al cans generally go for a few cents more than sheet al, but not always as it depends on which yard I go to.

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oops my mistake your right=)

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Originally Posted by Caveman

You are translating it wrong. $1/lb of brass got $5, so had 5 pounds of brass. $1.50/lb of CU#1 got $4.50, so had 3 pounds of CU#1.

Around me the al cans generally go for a few cents more than sheet al, but not always as it depends on which yard I go to.

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It's not that we're translating it wrong, OP wrote it wrong. OP should have said price per pound or price / pound