Great family owned business! These folks run a great recycling center. Staff are friendly and helpful. They’ve donated several times to local non-profits as well. Grateful they’re in Santa Barbara!
Does not give fair market value for metal basically rips you off. I took 6 Lbs of copper in and got $6.50 for it when the market is $4.58 per Lb they are taking advantage of people
sb iron and metal wont pat you what your scrap is really worth, people say if its worth it ,to go to ventura or oxnard, ...or a ''load'' to go to long beach , when ive gone to recycle aluminum, copper, brass as "clean" at sb iron& metal they'll call it dirty no matter what, ive cleaned stuff as much as poss. ,they'll only give a nickel a pound (alum) which doesnt add up to anything, far as i know there the only place in s.b. , so they got you...
ive been a 30 year customer at sb iron& metal ...today i was going to recycle a single cart of iron, was directed to the rear area to be weighed, i asked ray jr a question, and his response was maximum rude, went to office to tell them that guy was super rude for no reason, he ran up and told me he is the boss and put both hands on me and shoved me hard...thats assalt .apparantly the nice older man has retired and ray jr is doing things differently...i cant support any buisness thats rude to people for NO REASON, and especially one that the boss assalts customers with a hare trigger
I have been dealing with Santa Barbara Iron and Metal for eight years. They know their stuff. They do try to get you in and out as quickly as possible.
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