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hobo finds
Tare weight is also your bucket or container that you bring your stuff in with. At one yard they were screwing around with tare weight I felt they were cheating me on the weight as they did not reweigh the empty container so next time I dumped out all my buckets on the scale, guy was not too happy as the buckets make it easier to unload. Now I have the weight marked on most of my buckets and totes and not much of a problem anymore. I know if they are trying to screw me.
I had the same situation. I don't care if they are off by a few pounds with my
e-waste (.08/lb) or motors or transformers (.15-.25/lb) but when i was short 2 lbs of copper on my receipt one time because they screwed up the tare weight, I dumped my next load of copper on the scale and got a "why did you do that, now the guys have to pick it all up?" (it was a lot of little pieces too, hehehe) I replied "it's better than me losing a pound of copper" Now I usually just use shopping bags and make sure I glance at the scale.
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