Pick-N-Pull is a butt rape.

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I don't have a problem with the price, but a core on a sway bar?
 
I don't have a problem with the price, but a core on a sway bar?
THey want the old bent up one back. It's steel weight to them. If you don't have one to return you have to pay the price. Just like a alternator at the parts store. I bought a rebuilt and wanted to keep my original single pulley. I had to pay the core charge to do that. Rebuilt is different but the same. They want your old one back. You pay the core charge and get it back when you return your old bad part. It's a wash. It doesn't cost you anything unless you decide to keep the old part.
 
THey want the old bent up one back. It's steel weight to them. If you don't have one to return you have to pay the price. Just like a alternator at the parts store. I bought a rebuilt and wanted to keep my original single pulley. I had to pay the core charge to do that. Rebuilt is different but the same. They want your old one back. You pay the core charge and get it back when you return your old bad part. It's a wash. It doesn't cost you anything unless you decide to keep the old part.

Well, it must be a location thing. I've never in my life paid a core charge at a salvage yard.
 
Still cheaper then buying a new one. :)

Would you feel better if they just put the price on the wall at $50 and didn't tell you about the extra fees??


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You're a little slow, huh? You love to argue even when the point you're pushing isn't your own opinion.
Go back and read the original post.
 
So, you saved like $200+ versus buying a new sway bar, and you’re throwing a full on toddler tantrum over it?

And really, you’re complaining because you thought you were going to pay $25 and you paid $41.50? So, all this whining is about $16.50?

Yeah, you’re just cheap.
No, genius....The issue is that the business model is a bait and switch. They lure you in with a low price, then tack on stupid fees. Set a fair price and be done with it. I suppose you think that adding 40% to a price is reasonable?
Have you ever bought a house? Same thing happens there. Everyone has their hand out. The list of open palms in that purchase is sickening.
 
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You think that’s bad deal with Desert Valley down here. Bunch of tools
 
Hey, I'm not cheap. I don't mind spending a few bucks to get the right stuff.
I love going to junkyards and finding a good used part for my projects. Our stuff has really thinned out but sometimes a classic car shows up.
I have noticed that some guys will look to later model cars and trucks for parts that they can modify to work on their old cars.
In 2001, I noticed that the front sway bar on my '70 Charger had similar contours to the one in my Chevy truck. I went to a "Pick-N-Pull" yard and got one from a 1 ton 2wd 73-1987 Chevy GMC truck.
With a little work, you get a 1 1/4" bar for a fraction of the cost of a new one. I've modified 5 or 6 of them since for Dusters, Darts, and a '71 Challenger.
Today I went to a PNP yard to grab another one.
Here is where I get annoyed.
For years, these clowns have added in an environmental fee to each sale.
They also have core charges for many parts.
The base price on the wall seems cheap but once you add in the core charges, environmental fees and state sales tax, the deal is no deal.
This is some stupid bullshit. Core charge.... like these idiots are really going to rebuild a sway bar. This is their way to screw customers out of a few more bucks. Yeah, they refund it when you bring one back but what the ****....If I HAD one, I wouldn't be buying one. They know that most people won't bring one back so they make extra money because of that. If they are just trying to offset what they lose in scrap value, why is it $10 for a fender? No fender is worth $10 in scrap, not even one from an Imperial.
The environmental fees is another bullshit pick-pocket move.
JUST set the prices and don't have any tack-on fees. The way they do it now, it looks like they are being petty and trying to shake down their customers.
That sway bar is listed at $25 but with all the fees, it came in at $41.50. **** that.
But you are cheap. Because $41.50 is cheap. Owning a scrap yard has become very expensive. Primarily because of property tax due to the size. But also environmental penalties many now have to pay due to ground contamination a scrap yard creates. Unfortunately I don't see this trend getting better for the future. I have pulled my share of parts. (And yes, there is something cool about a scrap yard and discoveries.) And just dumping the contents of the radiator I wanted right there on the ground. It turns out? That practice has accumulative environmental consequences?

We had a newer scrap yard attempt to strip its wrecks in a more responsible manner. Clean, test and sell parts from the shelf as used parts. Then scrap remains there on premise. Thus lowering insurance by not having public wandering their grounds. They are no longer in business.
 
It amazes me how many people have so little comprehension!
They miss the whole point of the post !
It is like click bait !
We live in a society of mostly smoke and mirrors!
What happened to transparent truth !
Reminds me of a cellphone bill !
 
No, genius....The issue is that the business model is a bait and switch. They lure you in with a low price, then tack on stupid fees. Set a fair price and be done with it. I suppose you think that adding 40% to a price is reasonable?
Have you ever bought a house? Same thing happens there. Everyone has their hand out. The list of open palms in that purchase is sickening.

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If you’ve been to a salvage yard more than once, then you already know there will be additional charges. This isn’t new.

What’s “fair” has nothing to do with it, life isn’t fair. Plenty of businesses do this, airlines charge baggage fees, any business that deals with chemicals or disposal has an environmental charge. Bottom line is $41.50 for a sway bar is still a good deal, and all your outrage is over less than $16.50. Because you definitely knew you were paying tax on that $25.
 
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Other people do too!
I think it is great being able to go into a yard and pull the part yourself. I remember the old days when it was near impossible to get past the counter at the junk yard. For my hot rod stuff I appreciate the opportunity to walk around the yard and find that part that just may fit in with what I want to do.
It’s all a mater of perspective, if I feel I don’t get positive value from what I buy, I don’t buy it and move on.
 
I think it is great being able to go into a yard and pull the part yourself. I remember the old days when it was near impossible to get past the counter at the junk yard. For my hot rod stuff I appreciate the opportunity to walk around the yard and find that part that just may fit in with what I want to do.
It’s all a mater of perspective, if I feel I don’t get positive value from what I buy, I don’t buy it and move on.
Yep. We have quite a few yards here. Some will let you wander and others you can't get past the front gate. Another one is very professional and has scads of parts pulled, cleaned, tested and warehoused. That place is where you want to buy a used late model engine. Crated, computer terminals disconnected, run tested, sometimes new oil and filter. Oh and a warranty as well.
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It amazes me how many people have so little comprehension!
They miss the whole point of the post !
It is like click bait !
We live in a society of mostly smoke and mirrors!
What happened to transparent truth !
Reminds me of a cellphone bill !
Thank you. You get the point. Some didn't, they focused on the total price.
$40 for the part was not a bad price. The added fees that they tack on is an insult. I don't like it when people just screw with others thinking that they will not do anything about it, not even complain. If YOU are willing to bend over and get boned by a business, go right ahead.
 
boo ******* hoo...
You can always start your own thread tuff guy !
It is absolutely ok to disagree.
I don't see what you gain from insulting the original poster ?
I understood his point well !
It is about principal!
We live in a society of hidden fees and partial truths !
But I should not assume you have the capacity to understand the truth based on many of your comments!
 
Yeah, I don't understand all the insults myself. A guy gave his opinion. I agree with all the extra charges bein bullshit. We got a salvage yard right down the road. You cannot go on the lot. Known the owner approaching 40 years. He's always whined about "how hard" it is making a living in the salvage business. Guy drives a new Powerstroke truck every two years, he lives in a million dollar home, his wife drives a late Mercedes. You get the picture. So I get where guy here is comin from.....but there's no need for all the hate.
 
OK, I understand, get the "out the door" price, and buy it or don't.
What pisses me off is they remove all cat converters.
Ok fine, they're big bucks as scrap. But instead of cutting the flange on the converter, they ruin the head pipe and downstream pipe. The two pipes I needed!!!
 
I get the point !
In the early 80's I drove a 2dr 63 Dart with a worn out slant 3 on the tree with a perfect body to the local junk yard.
We didn't even pull out the battery. About a month later I needed a drivers side door for the 71 Charger.
When I went to the yard to see about a door, they told me they had one for 80 bucks.
They were using my old Dart as a yard car, they took the trunk lid off and had all the tools and cutting torches in the trunk.
I never bought a single part from those guy's again, told them to stick the door up their ***.
 
The harsh reality is that the "good ol days" are gone.

This world is changing again and I don't like most of the changes I see, but I'm still grateful I got to do what I did when I did.

I had my glory days with salvage yard around the 2010 era, I was well known as "that weird chick who buys old mopar ****" and could do whatever the hell I wanted in almost every local yard. I even bought a lot deal of a bunch of cars from a yard once, good cars.

Slowly, a few local yard owners passed away and a few yards closed and got torn down to make way for new condos and more covenant people to move in.

I'm glad fabo is still here to fulfill the high I need from looking at and thinking about old mopars daily.
 
Another thing that is sort of a mixed bag....
A part that is pristine costs the same as a worn or a heavily damaged part.
Sometimes the cars in the junkyard are mechanics liens. The car was in for repairs, the work is done and the owner flakes. The junkyard dogs like us come along and can get a fresh transmission, new rotors, radiator or whatever was replaced...at a much cheaper price than from a store.
It is the deceptive practices that piss me off.
 
My favorite is the "convenience fee" that Ticketmaster charges you for tickets. As if you're inconveniencing them by giving them your money.
 
The good ol' days are gone. The good ones meaning the time when people didn't care one inch about calling a wrecker to come haul their junk.... Where you can smash mouth these yards is finding hidden gems and selling the items.. Otherwise you still get a good deal for most things but you don't rob the bank any longer.

People can make a living by having friends at the counters talking about what just hit the yard. I did a beta test for myself years back. I would go to one on any given day, pick any particular discipline that tickled my fancy and have someone in front of a Laptop reviewing prices. We made a little money at it but in the end it wasn't for me. But people do it everyday. For the rest of us it's getting a decent deal unless you happen upon some killer part just because you got lucky....

JW
 
around here we screw the gub every chance we get , everything short of a full car is a cash deal out the door no paper work no questions asked . if you want a reciept you can get one but you pay the stupid tax .
 
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