I've not had much experience dealing with these mass collections, but the time I did, my work was DONATING to the boy scouts and I was only thinking about scrapping at the time so I asked a couple questions. He was rude and outright lied to me (as I now know from SMF) and I have now realized he was just a scrapper doing all the collections for the troop and would donate to them based on what he brought in. The man I met did not seem like the type to be upfront and honest with anyone. He tried to push me away from what is now my second income.
That makes him my competition.
So as long as I don't break the law trying to get ahead of him, that's just business and capitalism. I get why he doesn't want another scrapper in the mix but I feel he should have been vague instead of lying to me about the profitability of scrapping. "I don't know" is a lot more polite than quoting prices that are ridiculously low to discourage someone.
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