I was in the process of building a house when some not-so-nice-scumbags made off with our money and $2 Million of others as well. I had the slab about ready to pour when our funds disappeared. I’ve now sold the acre of property but I pulled the copper water pipe in an attempt to salvage at lease a little of what I’d already spent.
I’m cutting up the copper tubing to take to the salvage yard and just wondered if anyone might have need of copper?
Salvage appears to be around $2.75 a pound as a National Average.
The guys that stole $2 million dollars or the lawyers that are absorbing it for 6 years so no one will get any of it back? They have the guys, but the lawyers keep stretching it further and further out so no one get’s retribution.
And thank you for the condolences. I put 37 trees on that acre, dug the holes by hand, built fence, put up a small storage shed built by hand. All gone now. Living with my folks, which isn’t bad as they need the help at 84 and 79 years old. Still sucks though.
I spent the afternoon chopping the copper pipe into 2’ pieces to sell for salvage. It was in the ground for almost 7 years, it’s mostly the deep dark color of an old penny but a lot of green as well, and green on the inside too. Came out to 86 pounds of copper. So I figured it’d be best to go to salvage and be done with it. I’ll take it to the salvage yard tomorrow and see how bad they wanna screw me.
Before you let them know you want to sell, first say you're looking to buy some scrap copper, ask what kind of price they have. THEN say 'hey that's a pretty good price, in fact I have some I just got at another yard, would you like to buy it?' :bigsmile:
The salvage yd closest to me told me $2.40 lb on the phone. A different salvage yard 18 miles away told me $2.75 lb. That’s a $30 difference! I have 86 lbs of copper. Guess I’m taking a drive. Will let y’all know how that goes, just so’s you’ll know.
Took the copper and some al cans to the place further away, never been there before. They quoted me $2.75 on the phone just this morning, but didn’t honor the quote. They paid $2.85 instead! I got .58 lb for the cans so there was another $15 to pay for the gas.
Funny, on this side I take pride in getting an extra $40 by going out of the way. When I had that copper put into my foundation it cost me $1100. Spent more than that on trees on the place.
Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
I have a lovely wife that loves me as much as I love her, my daughter graduates high school this Friday, and my son is “too stinking cute” at 5 years old. Compensation.
We endure the bad things in life so that the good things are that much sweeter.
On the bright side, that old copper just paid for my Solarforce S2200!
This is all old news, starting back in Nov of 2007. The guys that cause the bad karma have been in Federal prison for a couple of years now, and I get updates all the time from the Victims board telling me yet again I won’t be seeing any of my money back (oh, they don’t word it that way… they tell me about the restitution hearings being postponed, rescheduled, appealed, rescheduled yada yada yada) I think their lawyers should be in jail with em for all the time they’ve killed and milked the billing on this one.
Did get a little fed up with the whole thing and chopped all the copper into 2’ pieces, but whatever, it’s in the past and it is what it is. There’s good karma in the end, the lot next to mine was bought and had a house built by a guy that’s a total Dic*weed, so now I don’t have to live beside him. The guy across the street was a nice guy, thought I was selling the lot to him, only to find out that he was partnered up with Dic*weed who I had refused to sell to. Go figure. I asked my real estate agent if he could find some poor woman with a trailer and the desire to raise pigs, I’d sell it to her for 50 cents on the dollar if he could, just for that neighbor…but my RE guy is stand up and wouldn’t do it. Darn it!
I got .58 lb for the cans so there was another $15 to pay for the gas.
