What a load of rubbish.....or is it?

[Sean Kelly]

Have no work on at the moment so I rounded up all the metal rubbish from behind the sheds & trees in the garden. Bags of old copper pipe and bits of lead etc. I took it down to the scrap metal merchant and they gave me £87.

To try and make some money I've been looking at buying stuff at wholesale and selling it on ebay. I found some Gucci sunglasses for £46 wholesale, but upon investigation I think they are fakes, as I came across a Chinese site selling the same glasses for £25 (with authentic certificates etc). Plus the ebay selling fees are extortionate.

I'm now dabbling with the stock market (and have been badly burned in the past, but what else can I do?).

I've been working on my web page too. I'm trying to make it look professional looking (using free software), but it looks rubbish! I've just seen Ali'G's Facebook page and that looks pretty smart so I might look down the Facebook route.

I'm also trying to get into natural stone repair and cleaning. Marble Tony had a course scheduled for today and tomorrow, but I think it has been cancelled due to lack of interest. Shame, as I have nothing planned for these 2 days.

FYI 16kg of copper = £56

Cheers
Sean

 

[MSB Tiling]

Im in the same boat at the min, ive got nothing on this week and only bits booked in for new couple of weeks.

Heres hoping it doesnt go on too long!

 

[White Room]

Thats why theres an abundance of guys picking up scrap....and it's cash.

 

[Dan]

And they always have a van full when I see them in my road so there is scrap about somewhere!

 

[Peter]

Plenty of money to be made in scrap. Got £136 for 50kg copper a few weeks ago that I had been gathering up quietly for about a year. Money to be made in anything if you think outside the box. Can't understand people who say they can't get a job, there's any amount of ways to make decent money if you just take a look around.

 

[kilty55]

loads of guys in vans atm.......find out the schedule for the council pick up service and your quids in thats what theyre doind picking it all up before the council vans get to it super early in the morning

also skips are constantly raided here and all metal taken

if you have a van worth a go

 

[John Benton]

Swapped out my central heating last year, weighed in, tank, boiler, rads and lead. £173 thanks very much.

 

[peteablard]

There was some armoured cable nicked last night outside a car showroom I've just done. They obviously weren't the brightest of people though as they cut through it and took about 5 metres however the other end wasn't connected, if they'd pulled it thy would of had about 35!

 

[Topshop]

You cannot leave your older home alone here in the US because it is usually the crackheads break in and steal your pipes and electrical wires. Some of the older brass memorials have been stolen from parks and destroyed here as well.

 

[Alan M]

iv heard that there are lads going around in vans with the bottom cut out of it stealing manhole covers.
they steal phone wires off the poles here too.