My first visi at the yard and the missing price lists

Hi everyone,

Today was my first visit at the yard, one of the main ones in Toronto, Ontario, where I brought a couple of fridges and other bits of ferrous metals.

The first impression was of a complete chaos and disorientation. After weighting the load I entered the office to take the money and I asked for the price list of all the metals that they take. The lady at the counter and here manager coldly told me that they don't have such a list. I insisted to have an orientation for the prices to know what to do the next time and after some refusals, the lady in front of the computer prepared me a handwritten list with 6-7 prices. When I checked, i saw for example aluminum cans .035/pound. When I told here that in US the price for pop can is double she said that she doesn't know very well the prices. Is the manager who decides every day what to pay???!!!
First of all, is this situation normal where you get not a price list to check and compare?
In the yard I saw 3-4 other "scrapper colleagues" downloading their stuff and among them one full truck of computer parts throwing them in the same pail of simple ferrous stuff???!!! How can they be so blind?? To get for all those hard drives and motherboards the same price of tin???
Did anyone of you have the same experience in your yards? Any advice for the price lists?



Happy scrapping and leave the hammer for the last moment! Don't destroy everything right away even though sometimes can be therapeutic and stress relieving...

The yard I sell at I can call any day they are open and get the price for anything, no problem.

Find a new yard to sell to even if you have to make bigger loads or ones just for non-iron items. Also make friends with the guys selling their hard drives, etc and maybe make a deal with them. You could do well. My impression of your yard is they need a competitor. Best to you, Mike.