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Old September 27th 17, 06:02 PM posted to rec.autos.tech
Molly Brown
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I live in Southern California. I replaced the catalytic converters on my truck and have been looking for a place to sell the old ones to compensate my cost of $800.00 I paid for the new one. If I can’t find a place willing to give me some money for it I will be trashing it. Can anyone give me some advice?
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Old September 27th 17, 06:21 PM posted to rec.autos.tech
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On 9/27/17 1:02 PM, Molly Brown wrote:
> I live in Southern California. I replaced the catalytic converters on my truck and have been looking for a place to sell the old ones to compensate my cost of $800.00 I paid for the new one. If I can’t find a place willing to give me some money for it I will be trashing it. Can anyone give me some advice?
>


Read article on issue here. It's long but you need to know the ins and
outs of how to get best price. It says the average is about $100, but
could be more depending on specifics.

http://www.scrapsalesusa.com/what-yo...-scrap-prices/

Some specific pricing ranges he

https://catalyticcontrol.rockawayrec...-scrap-prices/

Good Luck.......
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Old September 27th 17, 06:56 PM posted to rec.autos.tech
Molly Brown
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Thank you for the information.
Unfortunately Rockaway Recycling is located in New Jersey.
In order to sell it to them I would have to cut out my catalytic converters from the rest of the tubing, package them, and then ship them to New Jersey in order to get paid. After the time spent and the postage paid, it would not be worth it to me to sell it to them. I find it hard to believe that there isn’t a similar place here in the South West but I have called dozens of places including:

http://search.earth911.com/

but have failed to find anyplace that is willing to buy them.
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Old September 27th 17, 07:41 PM posted to rec.autos.tech
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On 9/27/2017 12:02 PM, Molly Brown wrote:
> I live in Southern California. I replaced the catalytic converters on my truck and have been looking for a place to sell the old ones to compensate my cost of $800.00 I paid for the new one. If I can’t find a place willing to give me some money for it I will be trashing it. Can anyone give me some advice?
>



quick web search results:

http://www.davisconverters.com/catal...lifornia.shtml

"WE BUY USED CONVERTERS ! Call 423-926-3699 Today ! "


I do not know this guy but we have similar metal recyclers
in WI so I know it's an actual industry.

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Old September 27th 17, 07:48 PM posted to rec.autos.tech
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Default Catalytic converter

On 9/27/17 1:56 PM, Molly Brown wrote:
> Thank you for the information.
> Unfortunately Rockaway Recycling is located in New Jersey.
> In order to sell it to them I would have to cut out my catalytic converters from the rest of the tubing, package them, and then ship them to New Jersey in order to get paid. After the time spent and the postage paid, it would not be worth it to me to sell it to them. I find it hard to believe that there isn’t a similar place here in the South West but I have called dozens of places including:
>
> http://search.earth911.com/
>
> but have failed to find anyplace that is willing to buy them.
>


Sorry. Rockaway was only meant as an example of value difference by model

RE SW Cali, have you tried this outfit ?

http://s3recycling.com/
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Old September 27th 17, 09:12 PM posted to rec.autos.tech
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Molly Brown wrote:
> I live in Southern California. I replaced the catalytic converters on my truck and have been looking for a place to sell the old ones to compensate my cost of $800.00 I paid for the new one. If I can’t find a place willing to give me some money for it I will be trashing it. Can anyone give me some advice?


Maybe call a few muffler places and ask them who comes and gets their old ones.
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Old October 5th 17, 07:14 PM posted to rec.autos.tech
Molly Brown
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I just called them and they said that I have to have some kind of special business license to sell it to them.
So much for my effort to protect the environment and getting back some of the money that I paid for the new ones I bought. In to the trash it will go.
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Old October 16th 17, 01:59 AM posted to rec.autos.tech
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In rec.autos.tech, on Thu, 5 Oct 2017 11:14:07 -0700 (PDT), Molly Brown
> wrote:

>I just called them and they said that I have to have some kind of special business license to sell it to them.
>So much for my effort to protect the environment and getting back some of the money that I paid for the new ones I bought. In to the trash it will go.


You might not be able to sell it to them, but you could give it to them.

That would fulfill one of your two goals.

My uncle and my cousin have a junk yard, that is a scrap metal business.
For a while 30 years ago my cousin was collecting converters, waiting
for someone who would buy them, to recycle the platinum, to arise. He
showed me a pile of converters, but I don't know what happened after
that.
 




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