Dishonest and misleading business practices -- beware before you use Clark's Scrap Metal
In September 2025, I called Clark's Scrap Metal about recycling material from a large building renovation. I was told their pricing was listed on their website (clarksscrapmetals.com/scrap-metal
), and it all looked fair. The cost to deliver and pick up a 30-yard dumpster was $350, which would simply be deducted from the proceeds of the scrap we provided.
We loaded over 5,500 pounds of valuable material -- copper plumbing, electrical wire, and cast iron -- which they picked up on September 27, 2025. After two weeks of silence, I called to check in. That's when I was told, by someone named Lacy, that the prices on their website don't apply to anything placed in a dumpster. Instead, everything -- copper, aluminum, wire, you name it -- was supposedly worth just $0.04 per pound. Four cents.
This directly contradicts what I was told when ordering the dumpster on September 23, and nowhere on their website or roll-off page does it mention such a policy. According to Lacy, "they wouldn't make any money" if they paid the listed rates for dumpster loads -- as if that excuses the deception.
We had more than 500 pounds of copper pipe alone, plus similar amounts of wire -- thousands of dollars' worth of material -- all sold off for pennies because they misrepresented their pricing.
If only they were upfront when I called, I would have hauled the metal in myself. Instead, they waited until after pickup to rewrite the deal. It's no mystery how a business grows to four locations when it operates this way -- when you mislead customers, you profit at their expense. read more