Darrel
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Sorry read this on another thread. Has it dropped by much? Anyone know the reason why?
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its half what it was 4 months ago, cos supply is currently exceeding demand  All the scrapyards have huge teetering piles of cars at the moment, waiting for the price to rise again. |
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in |
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Those crazy chinese dictating the price of scrap really.... seems that a lot of metal was required for the buildup to the olympics (building work, goodies for the visitors etc) so that was pushing prices up, now it's just steadied off and thanks to so many 'helpful' hiab owners doing their 'duty' there's quite a lot of metal heading eastwards.
My spanner man, who legitimately made quite a profit from shifting wrecks from gardens to the scrapper (and to be honest, kept more than he scrapped which infuriated the wife!) is telling me it's down from about £150/tonne to £100, for stuff dumped straight off the trailer (minus alloys, natch).
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purplevanman
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Just like lots of supplies it is a volotile commodity, up and down all the time. It was very high due to demand from china and india, they have enough now we have weighed in just about everything, it will rise again..
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£60 a ton a month ago here. for frag.
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Scrap value dropped?BenzBoy
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I hope it sinks lower to be honest - high scrap prices are a nightmare for us I think. So many half decent cars have been fragged because it's not profitable to sell them on  . If we could get back to the prices it was a few years ago (£50 for a car) that would be nice! |
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My neighbour weight in his K-Reg carlton CDi last weekend, Got £90, he was told, last month he would of got £150, so yes it has dropped.
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IDY
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Credit crunch = economic slow down = people buy less goods = factories need less materials = price of metals (and other materials) drops ..... its basic supply and demand
If the world economy tanks due to the banking crisis price of scrap could get a lot lower
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I will get round to finishing it at some point
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Definatly a good thing IMO.
Less likely someone is going to hiab/tow/steal your car to scrap.
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Si
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Scrap prices have fallen - roughly around 25%, depending on what metal you got..
As someone's mentioned, since teh Olympics it's slowed right down.
*Works in a scrap metal yard, sadly we don't take cars - steel worth f.a. by the time it's been shipped to the UK, we only deal with non-ferrous stuff
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Just when i have an old shell and other bits to weighe in the damm price drops.Any body in Southampton want to pick up a 205 shell with doors bonnet and some small bits of scrap.Take the lot away £20.Saves me cutting it up and loading it in my small van.
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Just when I have an old shell and other bits to weighe in the damm price drops.Any body in Southampton want to pick up a 205 shell with doors bonnet and some small bits of scrap.Take the lot away £20.Saves me cutting it up and loading it in my small van. i would small matter of getting it bk.. scrap value wher live is £50 a car and £100 a ton |
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Scrap value dropped?BenzBoy
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I must admit, I have cashed in on the high value of non-ferrous, despite whinging about it ;D.
Like Minidan says, low scrap price means less chance of cars getting hi-ab'd and weighed. Which has got to be good.
I just hope that the recent frag-fest hasn't depleted the stock of retros (current and future) too much.
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I would small matter of getting it bk.. scrap value wher live is £50 a car and £100 a ton How does that work then? Is it something to do with gravity or something... the further north you go the less a car 'weighs', despite having the same mass? So in theory scrap at the equator is the most valuable.... Damn I wish I had paid more attention at school. |
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dunno bud but tht is what the scrap man tells me
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Funnily enough, I was going to start a topic on this very same subject.
I hope it has dropped - right through the floor.
How many half decent motors were put to the sword out of pure greed.
Much more of that and we'd all be driving round in mundane euro boxes.
That Carlton CDi was a good case in point.
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rob0r
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Scrap value dropped?rob0r
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On the one hand I love buying sub £100 cars, but on the other I have 4-5 shells waiting to be scrapped! I'm waiting until the price rises again, if it does.
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scrap value has dropped the last few weeks...I weighed in a Corsa last week, 1100kgs, and I got £60...
Thing is a lot of yards are closing there gates on the public, mainly for health and safety laws, so getting spares for older cars is getting harder..
Mind you, ebay has its uses
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i was wieghing in some stuff the other day & it has gone through the floor its at about £90 per ton it was at £200+ a bit back  i spoke to one of the main blokes there & he told me it could be as late as feb 09 before it starts going back up  then he told me about a bloke that has at least 70 cars he collected & stored while the price was up & now he was going to wiegh them in & they told him the price then told him if he can hold on to them till feb  |
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I'm pleased i scrapped most of my shells when i did. Done 3 or 4 this year & got nearly £200 for every one of them, scrap prices varied between £150 & £200 per tonne for cars weighed in.
Took my last remaining bits of scrap yesterday, price was £80 per tone for frag feed. Only got £7 each for my cats too!
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All the scrapyards have huge teetering piles of cars at the moment, waiting for the price to rise again.
. If we could get back to the prices it was a few years ago (£50 for a car) that would be nice!
i spoke to one of the main blokes there & he told me it could be as late as feb 09 before it starts going back up 
then he told me about a bloke that has at least 70 cars he collected & stored while the price was up & now he was going to wiegh them in & they told him the price 