Who buy's stolen metal?
 

Over the years I have had friends in the scrap metal business.
Lol Eddleston from Ossy, Frank Barnes from Darwen, Ted Lethbridge from Blackburn and Len Nield, also from Blackburn.
All registered with the council as legitimate scrap dealers.
Every transaction, buying or selling of scrap has to be recorded.
None of these lads would accept any scrap from anyone who they did not know, or could not give an authentic place of residence or place of business.
Dedicated police officers would visit their yards 2 or sometimes 3 times a week to check the register to see that the procedures were carried out and that no renegade buyers or sellers were bucking the system.
Someone, somewhere, seems to have found a solution to get round the system and appear to be 'travelling' the UK on smash and grab asignments, probably 'weighing in' in a field or caravan somewhere?
I feel Customs must be on the case............watch this space.

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They are always round here asking for " Scrap metals " ........ :rolleyes:

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Who are?........I am not being clever......they are not allowed to collect scrap metal unless they are a registered dealer and that is my point.

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thought you were trying to sell some lol
thought i would check it wasnt my maiden! :D:D

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Well there are only certain people round here that drive up and down back alleys asking for " scrap metal " ;) .... and I don't think their right bothered about the law either.

Actually, i haven't heard them for about 2 weeks, maybe they have given up.

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If you were a maiden and I was younger I might steal it ;)

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Seen the police staging as metal thieves in programmes on the telly and seems SOME scrap dealers aren't to fussy these days and will buy off anyone

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Every day I get a visit from young men usually in flat bed transit vans, they are usually head down in the skip outside my factory. They remove anything of value usually metal objects, they visit every skip on our industrial estate and then disapear to the local scrap yards for their days graft.
I have no objection because it keeps my waste costs down !

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If they can make a living out of the skip.....why dont you?
If I'ts of value put it in a box and weigh it in yourself?

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I've got a leaflet in front of me which was pushed through the door offering to "clean your house from all types of scrap metal for free". There is a mobile phone number on it and they say they'll collect from 8am to 9pm.

As long as they don't return after 9pm for my boiler....:D

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Hahahaha ya never know ;)

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And they probably will.............Register a complaint.

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The only quick link to scrap metal dealers is this one from Southampton.
This applies to the whole of the UK.

http://www.southampton.gov.uk/licens...rapdealers.asp

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Who to Roy?