What is everyone getting for Copper?

Originally Posted by IdahoScrapper

Do you not advertise for wire any more?

Ever bought bare from someone? I would offer to buy that too, but I couldn't compete with the yards, so the seller might as well take it in themselves.

Man, to be a landfill operator, I bet one sees a ton of scrap every single day. They have a metal pile and it puzzles me. Not sure if it's stuff they pull from the general dumping, or if people really drive all the way out there to dump it..and to do so, one must drive past several scrap yards.

I've stopped advertising as much as I use to. One, I have a route of regular customers - like body shops and repair garages. Going for single pickups aren't as profitable. I also have regulars who drop stuff off at my place on an irregular basis. I'm in a fairly rural area and taking their own stuff in isn't an option. One guy actually lives right by the scrap yard, but just prefers bringing his stuff 25 miles and trading me for stuff I've picked up. Yes, I've bought bare wire. I don't need to compete with the yards (in fact, a lot of the stuff is given to me free). re: Landfill operators - both. They then haul the stuff to the scrap yard. I once bought some golf cart batteries from a guy who'd brought them to the landfill but for legal reasons, we had to drive off landfill property to make the transaction.