Wire is one of the biggest profit margins a yard works on, there are many grades and many different recovery percentages, the higher the recovery(the amount of copper recovered after the insulation is removed) determines its true value, many yards when buying wire have two grades number one, and number two, there are big differences in the two that's where they make there high margins if they know there grading, ok I forgot about Christmas lights number three, so it would be very possible to buy from one yard and sell to another for a profit. To expand on this a little about margins yards work on, when you sell your electric motors depending on how many attachments they have, will determine if they are clean motors or FE motors (dirty) so as a example clean motors are .30@lb and dirty are .20. When the yard sells there motors they all are loaded in the same container and sold for the same price hence there margins. Other examples are altanators, starters, those are blind items yards make nice margins on them, opposed to say UBC'S where aluminum cans are aluminum cans every body's got them margins are low.
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