. Last week they were paying £25 a ton round me, I know because I to am one of those people, everyone loves to hate because I drive round in a 1996 transit tipper with massive greedy boards up the sides and rummage through skips, the loose metal just covers the cost of my diesel, it's all the electric motors, wiring looms and bits of copper and brass inside the stuff that makes the money plus all the good stuff I flog on eBay, I,m also a plasterer so I get loads of stuff from the houses I refurb and just pick stuff up outside of houses on my way to and from work it's a win win for me, whatever