Recycling Center - Austin

Recommend going somewhere else out of town. They gave me $15.60 for a truck load of 3 V8 engine cores 2 transmissions a car hood and an roof of an car 6 brake rotors 6 struts and shocks and a whole bunch of automotive metal parts. Easy over 1000 pounds loaded. Didn't even ask for an ID. Guessing it's only been in business so far due to the fact it's the only place in Austin open on Sundays and illegals.

This place feels like a Juarez scam walking up. They are in such a rush to get you through the line that you can tell you’re being disoriented on purpose… They feel like if you don’t speak Spanish you can’t feel yourself being ripped off. by the time you get to unload there are three folks rushing you in Spanish and grabbing everything you have to go “measure weight!” They keep saying “the metal here!” And somehow know just enough English to say “let’s go!” However when asked about specific metals clean metals or motor / compressor separation… “no habla English.” After they throw on everything you have in five or six wheelbarrels and it’s gone. Then they want you to run up to the window so that a lady that does speak “some” English can pay you… but you realize the receipt she gave you has no separated weights or actual numbers on it. Just a 7.4 (whatever that means) and the dollar amount of the payout. Apparently they only accept one type of metal and it is scrap tin. Because that’s all they pay for. Luckily I wasn’t really going for the money and they happened to be open on a Sunday. But I don’t enjoy being or watching people get scammed or being blatantly stolen from. This place is literally robbing you even more so if you don’t understand the “only in Spanish protocol.” if you do rely on that payout or do this for a living I would avoid this place like the plague. Hell even if you’re one of those poor souls looking for a fix it’s gonna take you about three truckloads to get $15 (it would be much easier to go get a 40 hr a wk job)…

Brought trailer loads of metal to this place several times! Seemed like I got hardly anything for all the hard work... but I was inexperienced and had no idea... then after a while I had a pretty good idea what I was going to get based on loads I had brought in the past. Anyway one day when I brought in the biggest load of all which was easily double what I usually brought (and had literally always got at least a $100-150 for those;) for this all they gave me $68! So I tried to call it to their attention and all they did was argue with me so I thought maybe because the guy didn't know me and since I'm a female he thought I was stupid. So I came back to speak to the guy who was usually there and then after that I even spoke to the owner. But all they did was back that crook up and it was total bs! I have a large trailer and it was loaded front to back with heavier stuff than i ever brought before... They tried to say that the load was only like 1100 lbs! That's the same weight as if it was like five large guys and I assure you it was much more than that! But what can you do? When they've already taken it off of the trailer how can you prove anything? They knew that and they took advantage of it! I asked them if they had cameras... that maybe they could check... and they said they didn't and they were very rude about it... Later I heard about another place; that's just literally like 4-5 blocks away and I started going there... So now I get the full extent of how bad I was being ripped off and I'm glad it happened or I may have never figured it out! My advice do anyone who doesn't know don't bother with this place! Just go to the any place else but here because you will probably get ripped off too! I can't believe they get away with being so dishonest! Iwould've given them negative stars but that option was not there...