Our local yard does not list their prices. I asked about this and they told me it was because customers would look at the price list and come up with all kinds of crazy things about what this and that actually was.

Their solution was for people to bring it in and they would tell them what they pay for that particular thing.

For example. I was there a while back and a guy brought in a Gaylord box of transformers. He was selling them as copper transformers. They were large transformers and he had bumped one with a grinder to show the copper. As it turned out the yard sampled the other half of the transformer and it had aluminum windings in the bottom larger half.

Another time a guy said he seen they were paying $2.85 for green computer boards. This guy had green boards, but they were out of monitors. Some companies used green boards in monitors, but they were a different color of green and obviously out of monitors. He ended up taking them to court for false advertising. The yard won the case, but took down the price list because they were fighting a legal battle that was not necessary. There is no law here requiring you to post prices.

Another thing is that I have had people ask me what I got for this or that and what I was paid was far more than what they got. They do not understand that scrap yards by their very nature deal in volume. The more volume and better sorted your stuff is the less they have to handle it.