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I just hauled in a trailer load of iron (shred) in Houston. $0.03 a pound. 3,540 # = $106.20. That is the lowest I have seen since I have been hauling in scrap metal (started in 2006).

"As is where is". They are supposed to afford you an opportunity to view merchandise before bidding. If you do not take advantage of the inspection times, its on you.

I deal with commercial roofing. For several years we just tossed the old metal flashings and any old equipment in the dumpster with the rest of the tear off. In 2006, my son was born and the wife...

I'm in Houston and the flood didn't really impact my scrapping too much. Sure there was plenty of things to be picked up the first couple weeks after the flood. Everyone got their demo done...

Found $150 in change from a clean out once.

Thank you to everyone. I thought they might be something but I had no idea if I had $1 or $20. Sounds like they have a value between $3.50 and $10.00. There are boxes of disassembled computer...

I have been scrapping since 2006 but I almost exclusively deal with construction debris (I work in commercial roofing); lots of shred, HVAC units, etc. I know very little to nothing about electronic...

Sorry you got the wrong end of this deal. I hire several vendors for various trades. Before I can even assign a project to them, I have to have them set up as a vendor which requires all the items...

Are you sure they were not just trolling you?

$0.03 per pound here in Houston.....not good.

I'd love to metal detect around some of those old houses.

Yep. I would be afraid of getting shot or jumped by homeless people.

I normally operate out of Houston however I am wrapping up a project in Memphis this week. I took first load of shred type scrap from site. 1300# at $0.0275 = $36. Last load I hauled in down in...

I just sold some shred yesterday for $0.0325 a pound at a yard down here in Houston, Texas called Texas Port Recycling which is owned by DJJ and Nucor. It seemed to be bustling along just fine but...

Here is a picture of some that I had previously hoarded. I had 2 buckets of this stuff salvaged from the heater portion of HVAC package units. I took it to a specialty yard that tested it with a gun...

I had a little bit of stuff I cleaned up this last weekend and took in this week. Just thought I would share the prices we are getting here in Houston, TX....

Just thought I would share. Took in a load of random aluminum. It included clean sheet, extruded, and aluminum coils yesterday.

Clean sheet: $0.35#
Extruded: $0.50#
Aluminum coils (Clean): ...

Took in a load yesterday of 1600# of shred. Holding at $0.0375 a pound. The yard was pretty slow as the pile was kind of small and only 2 other scrappers there. I am just hoping it does not go...

I hope this is the bottom or near it. Only up from here. Shred is my main type of scrap so any optimism is good news.

Today I dropped off 2100# and the yard was paying $0.0375 a pound. I have been a regular scrapper since 2006 and this is the lowest I have ever seen it. All during the economy recession of 2008, it...

I'm getting $0.0675 a pound here in Houston for shred.

I have a project going right now that was large enough to warrant having some roll off dumpsters delivered from the scrap yard. Anyway we are constantly chasing people off that are trying to dig in...

We have lots of flying things that bite you here on the gulf coast but glad I don't deal with those. Right now the Mosquitos are terrible.

As long as I'm getting $.05 a pound, I'm good. Of coarse I want the higher prices but I'm in the green at $.05 for shred. Currently my yard is paying $.06 a pound so it's all good. I have a...