Quote { mike1 - last time i went to the yard the guy gave me #1 copper price and it was not the size of a number 2 pencil is there a reason for this and also what i thought was #1 it was romex and he said it was bare bright?
is it strange that they go back and forth like that? i just wanna get things straight so its not confusing.}
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I'd guess that he thought there was no insulation (in this case varnish) on the Copper wire because the varnish was very thin and/or clear, or Copper coloured.
So, he gave you a extra good price for it and you gained from it.
It also may have been a incentive for you to come back to the same yard next time.
Its really hard to understand what's going thru the buyers head at the time you sell, a frown might mean that you hadn't cleaned the metal 100%, but they still gave you that price.
It also might mean that if you had brought in that 220lbs of #2 Copper three days ago...they could have given you a better price because they were filling in a order/contract and would have paid extra for it if they knew you had it,
but now its going to sit in their inventory for the next 6 weeks..…
In your case, it also could mean they were filling in a order for #1 Copper, while knowing your Copper was #2, it had low insulation and could be 'slid across' into their #1 pile taking into account a extreme lack of contamination in the #1 Copper that they had.
I have found that 'big name yards' have no incentive to 'rip you off', its messes with their numbers and they loose customers, on the other hand, small sales of metal don't mean as much as they spend the same amount of time on most sales, but they still know that all of those sales add up at the end of the day.
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