Sims Metal - San Jose, California in
South San Jose Hills (CA)

What clients say about Sims Metal - San Jose, California in South San Jose Hills (CA)

• Antonio Avila

  Dry van deivers do not load "CUSTOM ALLOY LIGHT METAL "is ground metal drop on the floor stayed in gaps .brokers dnt pay for cleaning.

  Oct 13, 2025
• Jon Herranen

  Haven’t had any issues… Only had to deal with Good People that have a busy hard job

  Sep 06, 2025
• Mark B.

  Best place to take your scrap metals

  Aug 25, 2025
• Michah Drakes

  Among all the recycling centers in San Jose, this is the only one that has never given me any problems.

  Jun 30, 2025
• Rigo Beltran

  Great place. Now, Joel, both staff friendly staff willing to help and give you the best price for your product. Willing to sort it out on the cart to help you.Wow can't say enough

  Mar 16, 2025
• Stephen Black

  Excellent place for hms easy in and out

  Nov 10, 2024
• Kurt Kiesow

  Unfortunately, when you sell them scrap you have to wait 3 days to collect your money if you're not a regular customer.

  Aug 12, 2024
• Sick Villain

  DRY VAN DELIVERIES I have added a few photos to help you with the process. If I confuse you, just call the office and click #4 to speak to SCALE HOUSE. They will direct you.

  May 17, 2024
• sid parakh

  worst service ever tried calling operator she just hangs up your call on your face no answers and she would not pick it up again. Seriously like what was that, if this is gonna continue I am not going to do business with you guys ever!

  Sep 28, 2023
• Mark M

  A good place to make some money from your unwanted metals (aluminum, brass, copper, & stainless steel). It helps to have everything sorted prior to weigh-in, which makes the process that much quicker.

  Jul 03, 2022
• Steven Sharp

  Quick and efficient . But not worth the low return on recycling to go there again. But I guess it's better that having to pay to dump stuff that is recyclable. Employees are great.

  Jun 24, 2022
• Optimal Auto

  We have been going to Sims metal for decades and scrapping cars here. However today we had the worst experience EVER! We went to scrap a car today, and they told us they cant take it. Even though the car was completely stripped and did not have any battery, or gas. I asked for a manager and when he came he spoke very rudely. And told me get this junk out of here.I was astonished by the way they treated such a long time customer!

  Apr 01, 2022
• Omar V

  Been a customer for years. Steel is super high right now yet they keep paying me a pittance eventhough i have an account. What a rip off, no wonder so many people are going to other places lately.

  Jan 18, 2022
• K Piper

  What an abysmal business! I HAD to wait in a line of(4) customers without huge amounts of metal for 65 minutes. They only had one person to take metal. The payment takes 3 days. The place is FILTHY!!! The carts are not sanitized and there aren't many of them. DIRECTIONS to enter the facility are not clearly marked and Monterey Rd is busy so there's a danger of getting hit by fast moving ongoing traffic as you're trying to enter the appropriate gate. Its clearly not a customer friendly place. The only saving grace is the front office people are amicable. Don't go there unless you have a LOT of non steel metal to recycle.

  Nov 22, 2021
• Sonny Nguyen

  Excellent metal recycling center: accessible even for a first-rime novice like me, convenient carts for transport and surprisingly helpful staff. I had a lot of heavy auto parts (brake, steering) and other remodeling house stuffs that weight a ton (almost!) and were relieved to find a place to recycle them rather having confine them to the polluting landfills. Finally, you get serious money helping mother nature!

  Sep 17, 2021
• Gabriel Ceasar Ramirez

  got hip to secret to getting rid of the undesirable people. by no longer accepting cans and bottles! lol! Morgan Hill been doing it for years!

  Aug 06, 2021
• Akshay Sridharan

  Great place close to the DMV to weigh your trucks! The staff is very friendly highly recommend.

  Apr 02, 2021
• Knight Old Code

  Going to gate one Pull up onto the scales get out of your vehicle and over your ID to the person at the window they will give it back to you you drive in drop off your metal go back through to the other scale the outgoing scale show them your ID they take your picture they give you the receipt to take over to the cashier and you drive over the cashier park walk in get your money go back to your vehicle and depart very easy very simple no hassle.

  Mar 12, 2021
• Ruben

  Very slow to get material through scale and wasted time because according to worker theirs weight limit for certain metals about 500lbs minimum. Don't recommend at all better places other locations in San Jose.

  Aug 13, 2020
• Thomas Vernon

  Their organization is kind of not too good for people that are new go hard to find my way around the place people didn't give me very good information but the pay is good

  May 29, 2020
• Salvador Ortiz

  They have no customer service over the phone tried 5 times 2 different extensions nobody's answering the phone .

  Feb 18, 2020
• Violet Wren

  My boyfriend has been going to Sims for years, bringing scrap metal. They stopped taking cans and bottles and now have very low scrap prices.. However there customer Service is outstanding!! Very Friendly . A very safe place. as well as fun to watch the giant CLAW at work !!!

  Dec 24, 2019
• David Ribbs

  Perfect place to go if you want to take a full truckload of metal and only get nine dollars. Best part is you’ll get a couple nails in your tires and it will cost you more than the money you got from the metal.

  Oct 16, 2019
• Sandra Rosas Olden

  One of the larger recycle spots that I've been to. They are well organized and the line wait is usually 15 to 20 minutes. UPDATE! I just found out last week Aug. 2018 they no longer recycle CRV. :(

  Sep 03, 2018
• Bradley Galloway

  For anyone willing to build a relationship around respect with the employees, this is an excellent yard with quite decent prices.

  Apr 21, 2018
• Jessie Willyard

  Having to run around for paperwork I didn't even need to recycle a scraped boat. Wasted my time going here

  Feb 15, 2018
• Scott Ebersole

  I used this place to buy scrap items for repurposing. After I figured out where I needed to go, I had waited in the wrong line for about ten minutes, but a friendly employee pointed me in the right direction. For future reference gate six for scrap purchase. I found the scrap yard to be the cleanest and most well organized of Any I have been to. The employees were all friendly and offered assistance to load my stuff. Prices for purchase were extremely fair, and the selection was good. There does seem to be a lack of signage to point you in the right direction, but the employees were helpful in guiding you through the process. To the others mentioning rude employees or the requirement for identification, I did not experience that at all. The ID requirement is governed by the state, and the facility can be fined if they can’t prove that they checked. You can thank the tweekers for that requirement. I have spoken to managers at other facilities and frankly I’m surprised that they still operate with amount of restrictions that the state has imposed.

  Jan 16, 2018
• Danny Todd

  They watched me unload my copper into a cart and push it up to the scale. Then they interrogated me about where i got my copper and one guy even told me they were calling the cops! I said "good! get them here rite now." Extremely rude and uncivilized behavior. I thought i was in the Twilight zone. After about 5 to 10 minutes of waiting at the scale the manager (who was doing nothing and had watched me unload and witnessed this whole incident) walked over and told me i need a note from my mom saying i have permission to recycle my copper. This place is a joke.

  Dec 17, 2016
• Frank G.

  i am trying to type this as reference for the first timers and who would read reviews before going to a scrap shop: Rates payed to me: copper: 1.67/pounds - this is better than another place i called and get a quote of $1.2 to $1.4 Aluminum: .44 this is extruded Al and not cans Iron : $.01/pounds so dont go there for iron drop off. Impressions----------------------------------------------------------------------- - working blue collar environment, noise smell a little + but surprisingly workers are on the nice side - be aware of nails and small metal parts on the parking lot, i saw some. you may get a flat tire - They will pay you 3 days later cash or mail you a check - They wont tell you how much they are buying + a detailed receipt was provided Big Minus -> they will need your fingerprint, picture, ID, and license plate. I understand people steal and sell stuff but come on do you need to really take a picture of my ID?

  Jul 30, 2016
• Agustin Castillo

  This place sucks! I was paid very low for clean copper and brass, I'm Very disappointed! What a rip off...never going back again.

  Oct 24, 2015