I had been bringing my scrap copper and brass to Bob for about 4 years now, maybe more.
Bob has been paying me what I deem as close to fair price for my scrap, here and there coming a few pounds short, but hey who am I to judge right. Let Bob make his few extra dollars from unfair scales right? That Stuff I didn't mind all that much...
However today; today was different than any of the other days. I had accumulated quite a bit of brass (around 150lbs) and copper 1 & 2, I've been so busy with no time to pay Bob a visit.
I arrived at the establishment early morning, 8ish, gave Bob my license as we usually do and began unloading my rather heavy load of metals. It is the same type of brass, the same type of copper I always bring Bob, plumbing brass and copper. As the attendant weight in the brass I heard a female voice sternly ask him "clean or unclean?!!", "unclean" the attendant replied with an almost inaudible tone of voice.
Out of the 150lbs of brass I brought to Bob his scales later registered on the receipt ticket 137, 20 plus of copper 1, only 8 were paid and same went for copper 2 which weight in at around 50 or so. As I looked at the receipt and the payout I couldn't figure out what was going on... I felt the pressure from other customers waiting in line, my employee was also waiting on me to get to a job. I kept saying to myself, something is not right, the math does not compute.
Wasn't until later that I was out of there and all was said and done in my mind that I realized; I had been taken advantage of. National scrap brass prices are around $1.30 a pound as I write this review, 0.60 cents a pound I was paid for my 150 pounds of brass, that's less than half! Only because that woman whom I've never seen said it was "unclean it had some plastic on it".
Well guess what Bob, from now on I will be taking my copper and brass somewhere else, because that's all it takes to loose a customer, that's all it takes for a once green tree to wither and die. To wither and die. read more