Took some metal in to my yard from all these CRTs I've been scrapping. 400 lbs of nice clean metal and 55 lbs of #1 copper just to get it out of my shop. The price they wanted to give me for the metal was .04 lb. They wouldn't give me #1 for my bright wire and downgraded it to #2. They said it doesn't matter if it's bright or not as they base #1 on the gauge of the metal. So apparently I can never get #1 from any of my escrap. Is this common around the country? I didn't sell and brought my stuff back and called around a couple other yards and the metal prices were the same. Can't make any money at .04.