Fair price for sorted WWs?

[OneBagNomad]

Thinking of liquidating my small stockpile of WW. I'm getting ready to move and the idea of not having to drag lead with me is sounding pretty nice right now. What do you guys consider a fair price (flat rate shipping included) for 50lb boxes of sorted (no valve stems or other debris, no zinc or steel left to the best of my knowledge) clip-on WWs?

[Roger Ronas]

You'll get prices kinda all over the place. For me I'd pay about 1/2 what buying smelted lead on this site goes for. So that's about 25.00-30.00 for your 50 lb box of COWW shipped.
But that's all I can afford also.
Roger

[bowfin]

You can always run a reverse auction: Start it at a high price and then drop the price a dollar each day until they start selling.

Tell people up front that is what you are doing, so they know what you are doing.

[OneBagNomad]

You can always run a reverse auction: Start it at a high price and then drop the price a dollar each day until they start selling.

Tell people up front that is what you are doing, so they know what you are doing.

That's a good idea, thanks. I'm kind of torn between keeping them for a rainy day and just selling them off to someone who will put them to use. Really worried about that structural integrity of these flat rate boxes too.

[Defcon-One]

I would sell mine for $0.65 per pound sorted and unsmelted. Any less and I'd smelt into ingots, then sell for $1.00 per pound, or just keep it!

That would be $44.50 shipped in your scenario above, 50 lb. medium FRB with delivery confirmation..

[runfiverun]

just set a price they'll buy them or not.
but the 45 or so sounds fair.

[220swiftfn]

Or you could mail them to yourself.......

Dan

[fredj338]

How much are we talking about? You could move 330#+ in (3) 3 gal buckets.

[Tedly]

Got an opportunity to buy WW from truck tires...any different ? Guy wants a $1.00 per pound...seems high but with the way its headed...how long before I regret not taking them ?

[birdadly]

Got an opportunity to buy WW from truck tires...any different ? Guy wants a $1.00 per pound...seems high but with the way its headed...how long before I regret not taking them ?

You do get more lead and less clips because (I think I'm right in saying this) they're usually larger than normal car weights. But, you can buy them already in ingots for just over, if not exactly, $1.00 per pound so I would tend to say no on this venture. Just my opinion! -Brad

[bowfin]

Tedly, a buck a pound for wheelweights is too much, as birdadly says. You can buy cleaned and fluxed lead here from several different sources at that price...

...unless you figure you are paying for the entertainment of melting them down yourself.

Copy a post of one of the vendors selling clean ingots and their prices to take back down to "the Guy" who wants a buck a pound so you have something with which to negotiate.

[bslim]

I ran into a repair shop that also handled tires and asked for WW's. The owner let me know he had 2 5 gal buckets for sale. I should have picked up on the "for sale" comment. Anyway, I asked him how much and he let me know he had a guy who paid him $90 / pail. I thanked him, told him to have a nice day and left. If we start paying $1.00 / lb for unsorted, unsmelted WW's, we'll shoot ourselves in the foot and drive up the prices. It won't take a rocket scientist for them to realize that a severe shortage of lead WW's will demand higher prices. I know we will have to pay more in the near future, but I wouldn't jump the gun too quickly.

[Moonman]

I had one tell me he has a guy that pays him .95 RAW, I just bid him good day.

[Jim]

If I have to pay close to a dollar a pound for WWs and taking into account my gas expense, time and the trouble of sorting, cleaning, smelting and pigging.....

I'll just buy it from people right here and have it delivered to my door. Open the box and it's ready to go in the pot.

[LUCKYDAWG13]

i would think that $35. for 50# raw W/W would be a fair price
well thats what i would like to pay

[Black Powder Bill]

I'm in the same boat you're in. Want to retire and move and don't care to take the excess with me. I've been selling WW for $45.00 50# flat rate box shipped.
I sort out as much garbage as my patience allows and fill the box up. They get stick-on and anything that resembles a WW.
What some folks do not understand IS, the lead WW is not used any longer. As in not green.

[GSCSA]

I pay .39/lb here.

[Stephen Cohen]

This is one area where we on this side of the world are lucky, I was offered, 48 KG for $25 last week. Passed it up as that is way more than I usually get it for.

[GT27]

Market value at the time of purchase,anything other than that,leave it!! .27 cents a lb. 2 days ago!!Downward trend... =Yeah!!

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