Buying e-waste and non-ferrous commodities in Las Vegas

While I would very much like to buy your materials, you can always email me just to get a nice PDF price sheet to use to argue up your local pricing if mine is significantly higher for non-ferrous! So....sell to me! Or at least threaten to!

Originally Posted by JJinLV

While I would very much like to buy your materials, you can always email me just to get a nice PDF price sheet to use to argue up your local pricing if mine is significantly higher for non-ferrous! So....sell to me! Or at least threaten to!

Careful with this approach, I've seen people get banned from the yard (or at least warned about getting banned from the yard) for trying to complain/compare prices. I once mentioned how the wire I had once usually get classified as a higher grade and I get $x price for it at another yard and the guy said "number one rule at scrap yards is don't complain about the price or try to haggle, if my manager heard you say that he would have kicked you out of here" .... which seems like B.S. but.... just something that happened not sure if it's actually true. Ive also seen this same place say if you don't like our prices take your stuff somewhere else and refuse to accept a load from someone after he was hemming and hawing over the price. So... idk., just saying. And both these occurances were at the largest yard in the area, so that may have had something to do with it (they have the best prices on steel and shred it onsite, but not so much best prices on non-ferrous)

Originally Posted by kss

Careful with this approach, I've seen people get banned from the yard (or at least warned about getting banned from the yard) for trying to complain/compare prices. I once mentioned how the wire I had once usually get classified as a higher grade and I get $x price for it at another yard and the guy said "number one rule at scrap yards is don't complain about the price or try to haggle, if my manager heard you say that he would have kicked you out of here" .... which seems like B.S. but.... just something that happened not sure if it's actually true. Ive also seen this same place say if you don't like our prices take your stuff somewhere else and refuse to accept a load from someone after he was hemming and hawing over the price. So... idk., just saying. And both these occurances were at the largest yard in the area, so that may have had something to do with it (they have the best prices on steel and shred it onsite, but not so much best prices on non-ferrous)

This might be a problem if you bring in small quantities. But I don't see it as likely if you have enough material that it would make sense to ship freight anyway.