Been down the scrapyard today to get ripped off

jonnyburgo

I collect scrap aluminium and weigh it in about 4 or 5 times a year, the money goes to covering petrol for our yearly Wales holiday, on average I end up with around £100 which easily covers petrol

Anyhoo, last time I went I took 56 kilos of aluminium and got £18, today I went with 33 kilos and got £15. The guy makes it up as he goes along.

I'm too scared to complain because they are big angry looking fuckers and might throw me in to the crusher.

Bent bastards taking advantage of a good little womble like me.

richardhomer

Is it you who keeps nicking all the road signs?

fatherjack

jonnyburgo said:

Anyhoo, last time I went I took 56 kilos of aluminium and got £18, today I went with 33 kilos and got £15. The guy makes it up as he goes along.

Or maybe the retail price for scrap aluminium varies over time.

Col_Decker

copper is where the money is at.

randomhandclaps

Col_Decker said:

copper is where the money is at.

Dead true.  You can get a great ransom for a high ranking copper.

digitalscream

jonnyburgo said:

Anyhoo, last time I went I took 56 kilos of aluminium and got £18, today I went with 33 kilos and got £15. The guy makes it up as he goes along.

Hang on...you turned up with about 40% less metal that you had last time, but took home only 17% less money?

How is that being ripped off, exactly? Seems to me that you did quite well out of it.

ESBlonde

Still your £15 will buy you more petrol this year than last so it's not all bad news.

jonnyburgo

digitalscream said:

jonnyburgo said:

Anyhoo, last time I went I took 56 kilos of aluminium and got £18, today I went with 33 kilos and got £15. The guy makes it up as he goes along.

Hang on...you turned up with about 40% less metal that you had last time, but took home only 17% less money?

How is that being ripped off, exactly? Seems to me that you did quite well out of it.

well yes thats true but I should have got more for the 56 kilos, i check the values each time and they haven't changed that much, like I say I think he just pays what he fancies paying knowing that I'm not going to load the car back up and piss about going elsewhere, the next nearest one is the other side of manchester

fatherjack

Manchester?  This chap's in Middleton and puts his prices up online so you should know what you'd get.

boogieman

We had a refit of the power supply in a building I worked in years ago. Some contractors turn up and craned in a load of huge copper bus bars, which turned out to be just too short for the job. Another lot turned up later, but the originals sat waiting to be collected.

Scroll on a few years. We'd decided that they're never going to collect them so cut a couple of foot off one of them to pay for our works Xmas do. They actually lasted quite a long time. Would have been worth a fortune nowadays I guess.

xmrchi

Lol womble!

d8m

Lead roofing.

That's where the money is!

Fortheloveofguitar

Scrap metal is on its arse again at the moment.

My local scrap car dealer is now only paying £70-80 per tonne its got that bad. Not seen any of the usual Gypsy scrap dealers roaming the streets for months now!

Sambostar

56 kilos of aluminium lol.  The price of scrap is down, the price of oil is down, the whole world economy is down.

Around 50p a kilo is about right for aluminium.

Pure aluminium shavings were getting almost a quid in October or £1000 a tonne, now they are 50p.  It is just the nature of the market.

Is your other alias Swifty by any chance?  Don't go messing with those HT underground cables in the manholes with concrete blocks on top.

Remember before the banks crashed scrap peaked at around £220 a tonne.  Nothing you could do to nail things down.  Everything just disappeared.

chillidoggy

Fortheloveofguitar said:

Scrap metal is on its arse again at the moment.

My local scrap car dealer is now only paying £70-80 per tonne its got that bad. Not seen any of the usual Gypsy scrap dealers roaming the streets in their Transit tippersfor months now!

Fixed that slight mistake for you.

xHymnal

To be fair the price of scrap dropped dramatically last monday. We weigh in fairly regularly and it's well worth keeping an eye on the current prices online, also and forgive me if this sounds dumb but try a few other scrappies; we avoid the one in our local town but drive 10 miles to the next one and it's always without fail a fairer price. I can't see prices going up for a long while now though, the price on lead is currently laughable

Fortheloveofguitar

chillidoggy;484904" said:

Fortheloveofguitar said:

Scrap metal is on its arse again at the moment.

My local scrap car dealer is now only paying £70-80 per tonne its got that bad. Not seen any of the usual Gypsy scrap dealers roaming the streets in their Transit tippersfor months now!












Fixed that slight mistake for you.

Lol. I miss those thieving shites