Checking Out My Scrapyard Receipt

Originally Posted by NinjaGal

I'm not sure where to post this question but I feel as if my scrapyard has been ripping me off. A little quick background is that our yard pays out ferrous & non ferrous on the same ticket when you go to cash it out and first you go over the scale get weighed and then drop off your shred feed then get weighed for your tare weight and what's missing obviously is what you dropped off. Then you go inside to a different area and turn in whatever you have for ferrous items & the weight of each type of metal is called in and then you go to the office to get your receipt and get paid. Fairly simple.. Ok so here is how my receipt displays.

Gross Weight (Upon Entering The Yard) - 8240 lbs
Tare Weight (Upon Leaving The Ferrous Side) - 6192 lbs
Net Weight (Total Ferrous Sold/Dropped Off) - 2048 lbs

Then I went to the other side of the yard and received:

Clean Brass - 70 lbs @ 1.50 per lb, #2 Copper - 24 lbs @ 2.00 per lb, 139 lbs Extruded Aluminum @ .2518 per lb, #2 Wire @ .64 per lb,
And Misc Shred Feed 1800 lbs @ .04 per lb

For a grand total of 269.60



Is anyone else seeing an issue with this?

Please someone help! I brought the issue up with the scrapyard and was told that if I felt like they were ripping me off then I didn't have to go there anymore. They tried to give me an explanation for why they do this the way they do and to me it just does not make any sense whatsoever. Who would one call or go to??

Thank you so much in advance!
NinjaGal

I think they deducted the weight of your non ferrous off you ferrous load.

Excluding the .6 off you non ferrous ( for rounding sake) and working backwards

269 non ferrous + 2048 ferrous + 6192 truck / car weight = 8509
8509 - 8240 gross weight = 269 difference

there is an error but on lunch at work and cant quite work out where it is... to avoid drama usually go over weigh bridge get gross weight, drop of non ferrous
go back over weighbridge get tare weight then work out net weight. then weight non ferrous individually. easy and no mistakes.. dont think they are intentionally ripping you off
maybe their just idiots..