3FireWoodGuy- Welcome to our world out here on the industrial periphery. I hobby scrap so in the end the swing of prices doesn't affect me all that much but I still have a threshold where I won't take in certain items. Most of my light steel comes from electronic recycling so I don't have bunches but it still needs to get moved out of the garage once an while. I took a "load" in during July (we only have 1 steel buyer in my metro) and it was $70 a ton. Had another load to take in and called at the end of August and it had dropped to $50 a ton. I actually took it that Friday which was Sept 2 and the price had sagged to $30 a ton. I won't be taking in any more steel until probably next spring. Plan on buying another big trash can or two to keep it tidy while it piles up...