Is this a setup?

[pronghorn]

What's your opinion, are scrap yard owners honest when picking up iron
and telling you the weight without you actually seeing the weight tickets?

My scrap iron buyer picks up his dumpster full of iron
from my property and I don't hear from him for two weeks.
I left messages and finally he calls me this morning.
I ask him for a weight and he says it was around
3 tons. I know this is a load of crap right away.
I proclaim "Bull*%#$ loud into the phone and he starts in to stuttering.
He says I'll get the ticket and call you back, he calls back and then says it was
11,200. I have been working with iron most of my life and estimated my
load at between 8 and 10 ton. I should have said if that is all you are going
to say it is, bring the whole {)@M load back, right down to the last nail, I
know what was in that load!

I am going to weigh out the next load a trailer at a time, pile it in one
pile, and when I load it into his container I will have an accurate weight and
catch this crook red handed. Might even video the whole set up. Means I
will have to handle the iron a little more and burn up some gas to and from
the scale but I don't care. Scrap buyers beware.

Has anyone ever caught their scrap buyer trying to $<rew them?

 

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[2muchstuff]

Has anyone ever caught their scrap buyer trying to $<rew them?

When haven't they tried, youv'e got to know your stuff.

 

[BCR]

Yup I have had 2 yards try to screw me over, but I refuse to take things laying down..both places pay by cheque. One place I drove nearly 3 hrs with valuable stuff only to be told on the phone next, the stuff was worthless. I said bull**** you can send it back to me by post, the guy on the phone coughed like he hadn't heard me right.

I sold the stuff elsewhere and got a hell of a lot more than what he said it was worth... $0 lol

 

[stoney56]

A friend of mine almost got cheated out of $600 worth of copper because of underweight scales.

 

[2muchstuff]

I wonder just how many scales are inspected by your states Department of Agriculture weights and measures. There should be a small colored sticker on the scale somewhere indicating that the scale has been inspected. Since the scale is used for legal trade, I would assume that the scale should be inspected anually. If in doubt then a phone call to the Department of Agriculture is in order.

 

[sniffer]

here in Ks. all methods of weighing or measuring for commerce is required to be tested yearly and have a validation sticker on the item being tested.
however last year, the Wichita PD conducted an investigation into this sort of problem, which was called in by the public. 3 scrapyards in town were falsifying weigh tickets. they got busted when the PD started bringing in scrap to them. they had already weighed it a verified scale, and the yards were deducting 30% in weight. then it came to light that all the yards involved were owned by the same family, 2 people went to jail for theft, conspiracy to commit fraud, falsifying state records, in short a whole list of charges.

If in doubt, investigate and report it to the local police