What kind of prices do yall get for batteries? 2 days after I cashed in 61 Batteries for $6 each, the scrap yard was taking batteries for $10 a piece.
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What kind of prices do yall get for batteries? 2 days after I cashed in 61 Batteries for $6 each, the scrap yard was taking batteries for $10 a piece.
Right now I am getting about $10.50 per car/light truck battery.(30 cents per LB.)
35 cents a pound here... heck I pay $5 per battery and flip a nice little profit on 'em..... I'd be nice and give you $6.50 each even! LOL
most yards here are at $10 for any dead car/truck/boat battery
LUCKY. Here in Idaho i get 10 C lb, or $2-$5 a battery.
The only batteries that pay per pound at my yard are small electrical batteries (emergency lights, etc) and the huge batteries from like F-550's. Small motor batteries are typically $3 each, and cars/trucks/boats etc are usually $6. But recently they shot up to $10 each.
Yesterday a guy posted a complete exhaust from a '99 dodge pickup on Clist for free so of course like you all I'm thinking "cat"...Well I got there and he had cut the "cat" out but had 3 car batteries sitting there for me to take along with a couple hundred pounds of steel. Works for me.
I'm from Upstate NY. Took a few in last week. Gave me .22 a pound.
Still angry that yall are getting 10$ for those dang things lol.
I saw a guy in Craigslist a few days ago advertising to buy batteries at $10 each.
Are you sure it didn't say UP TO $10? Or $10 for Class C (4D) or Class H (8D)? I just got a quote for volume (over 100) from Exide last week and it was less than $10. My brother (trinketdan on here) in Iowa got less than that from Exide, too. Be careful as I've seen a couple ads like that, too. VERY misleading.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadowview
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Originally Posted by Mick
Exide is at less than $10 a battery?! Glad I'm not saving them up and waiting to try and strike a deal with Exide, that's a ripoff.... We're getting $11-12 at the local core yards here. Its per pound but comes out to about 11-12 each. I wanna say 35 cents a pound?
We are getting between $11 - $12 depending on the amount you have. Picked up a junk car today and the guy had 12 batteries sitting inside his garage. Asked what he does with them and he said he gets $6.00 each. I offered him $8.00 and he was stunned! Quick $36.00 profit for asking a question!
What part of Texas you in. Found one place that was paying $7.00.
Here is what the ad said:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick
"WANTED!!!!
ANY AND ALL OLD, USED, SCRAP, DEAD, AND OR BROKEN CAR & TRUCK BATTERIES
I WILL PAY YOU $10 FOR EACH AND EVERY BATTERY YOU HAVE.
$5 EACH FOR LAWN MOVER AND JET SKI BATTERIES
$20 EACH FOR CONSTRUCTION EQUIPTMENT BATTERIES
$10 - $15 EACH FOR MARINE BATTERIES "
I never checked it out because I don't have any batteries right now.
The big question for me though, is why is that ad still there after a week when my item wanted ads get deleted after 10 minutes. grrrrrrrr
Here in CO the best price I can find at a yard is $0.16 per lb. Some of the other scrappers a paying $6.00 per car/Lt. truck battery, so I sell to them.
Looks like it would almost be worth it to get the haz. mat. endorsement on my license and take a load of batteries to IN. $0.35 per Lb, sheese.
Some just keep re-posting even if it gets flagged. They even thank the ones doing the flagging as it lets them keep their ad on top. There's really a lot about CL that doesn't make a lot of sense. If you can get $10 a battery - go for it. Might even be worth it for me to haul a load there - where are you located. The ones around here offering $10 are "bait and switch" scams.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadowview
Southwest Houston. $10/per at Cameron Recycling in Manvel.Quote:
Originally Posted by ocedy
Meadowview are you in nj?
i have the same add popping up on my nj cl, guy is a deuce i emailed him he said he wont drive 15 miles for 5 batteries i told him to show it, im getting $11 at the yard now so ill drive the 6 miles and he can go **** himself..
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Originally Posted by Meadowview
Yes. I am in South Jersey.Quote:
Originally Posted by jerseyscrapper
We're now at 38 cents a lb. for batteries.....
All you guys know you can keep editing you craigslist post and the flaf meter restarts so if it takes 10 flags to finally flag ur post and u have 9 and you edit the post it starts over and takes another 10 to flag the post
After lurking around the site for 2 days, I decided to join so I could post to this thread. Mid January I got .27 for a pile of deep cycle batteries. They came inat 947 lbs. It was a good haul.
Business really dropped off at Christmas time. I started scrapping stuff in my yard. Since then I have been splitting my time between the shop and scraping.
P.S. ....I am in Abq, NM.
Welcome to the forum, there's lots of good info available here,,, Mike
Welcome from another nub.
Here in Illinois we are paying .40/lb for batteries delivered to our location.
So what's the average weight or a single car battery?
Was wondering if it's worth paying the $5 to end users... We're getting about .30 per lb. on batts.
Industry average for an auto/light truck battery is 35.4 lbs. Motorcycle battery is 9.4 lbs.Quote:
Originally Posted by JunkyBusiness
just cashed in 3 yesterday $12.16 each
Just hauled in 9,775 lbs (yes almost 5 tons) of batteries today at $0.39/lb. I asked for a better price since I brought em a large amount. They didn't have a problem with that :-D I have about another 4,000 lbs of them to take in yet.
Now that's a NICE load of batteries!!!!!
Cha-Ching,, good job Blue. :D
NICE!!! thats nuts with i had that much battery weight!!!!!!! good jobQuote:
Originally Posted by Bigblue12v
Haha thanks guys, i'd post pics of it but I'm pretty sure I don't want DOT or state police to stumble across the pic LOL my trailer is a 22' tilt deck car hauler with two 3500# dexter axles, load range D trailer tires, brakes on both axles. We had em all directly on top of the axles. It squatted the trailer until the frame rails were resting on the axles. Trailer weighs 2500# so you should only have 4500# load on it. Can't believe it didn't bend an axle, bust a hub or rip a tire off the bead. This wasn't intentional but the trailer was off road on unlevel ground when we loaded it and didn't realize the amount of weight we were putting on it. Once I got out on level ground and started to actually move the load down the road I realized it was waaaay heavier than we might have thought... Ya'll would really crap if ya knew what we paid for the whole load hahahahahah............. ridiculous profit margin is all I can say. They weren't free but close enough!!!
Crazy thing is the total load size was 5' x 8' x 3' tall. Didn't take much deck space on the trailer considering the weight.
Dexter makes some really freakin' tough trailer axles that's all i gotta say!!!!!!
PS- worth mentioning that I hadn't been saving these up for any amount of time. Picked them up at one location, and as mentioned, there's another 4,000-5,000 lbs worth of them there yet to go. That makes it even sweeter not having to handle them more than loading them once and not sitting on them for any period of time! Woohoo!
I'm getting between $0.14 and $0.17 a pound. Needless to say, I'm jealous.
Do not know whether to laugh or cry. The one load that I hauled was close to 2 ton and the yard would only give $0.19/lb. They said if I could bring in 2 to 3 ton a week I could get up to $0.65/lb.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigblue12v
The 2 ton load was a years worth of sitting on them. LOL.
Good going Bigblue!!
Blue, you might not want to press your luck with those axles. Those sound like mobile home axles, and they'll take a load, but when you break an axle and tear off the spring hangers; what a mess they'll make. I escorted a mobile home one time that ripped the axle clear out from under the frame when the driver braked and it went up thru the floor into the back bedroom of the coach. Whew, what a mess that was, all over a 2 lane highway. :cool:
Mechanic, it wasn't intentional to have that much weight on 'em believe me! They aren't mobile home axles, they are Dexter trailer axles. Its a factory built car trailer. Again I would never overload them like that again it just happened and didn't have any choice in it by the time I realized how much weight it was. Just had to get where we were going very carefully and safely. And we did and it appears the axles have survived with no damage thank God!
I'm sorry your yard wasn't more agreeable. If I was you, I would have taken the time to drive them to another state to get a better price.Quote:
Originally Posted by Patton
The yard is the yard.
To many ports to go through without the Haz. Mat. endorsement on the license.
As I previously posted, I now just sell to the other scrappers in the area for $6.00 a batt. and go on.