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Gambles

Gambles

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The title may have got your attention, but there's no such thing as a free lunch, is there? I normally don't drop any cash off at this auto chain, but I have done this in the past. A lot of people here may know this, perhaps some of you don't. I'm sure a few people on this site have a slew of old automotive batteries lying around. Take an old auto battery to O'Reilly auto parts and they'll give you a $10 store credit on it, good for anything they sell in the store. I've taken 60-year old six volt batteries and everything newer. I've taken batteries in that somebody left out in the pasture for decades and the plates were showing. They took it. The details is that you bring in an old battery, they give you store credit on a card and then you can use that card to purchase parts. Limit four batteries per day. There was a post several months ago about the high cost of oil filters on tractors that haven't been produced for decades and are expensive. O'Reilly sells Wix filters and this may be your chance to pick some up for no cost out of your pocket.
If any other part chains do this, please post details.
 
Makes a guy wonder how much they are getting paid for those old batteries? I definitely know they ain't doing it for free!
 
My scrap yard buys batteries by the pound. I was able to get rid of small motorcycle
batteries. It's been a while since I sold any. I think they paid $0.44/#

The Zone and O'Rielly's give you a $10 in store credit.
I think a core charge at RK is more than $10.

A tenant just left me a dead battery.

When I get a dump trailer load of scrap metal, I'll be making a trip to the recycle
place.
 
Well, its a not that bad of a deal completely. But stores have either charged an extra core charge onto battery price, or wanted a battery returned as a core for years. I don't have an O'Reilly's close, so I use other similar chain stores. But I'll bet if you walked into an O'Reilly's today to purchase a new battery, they would either 1. want a core battery in exchange, or 2. charge an extra core fee that would be refunded to you when you bring your old battery in.
So, this is apparently something extra they are doing to acquire even more batteries. The core thing alone would catch most people of thier old batteries. The others I guess have already paid for their battery cores sitting around at home and just didn't know it.
Why are they doing this?? Well obviously to promote business within the store, since this money is put on a card and can only be spent in thier stores. And a RED FLAG fir me is, I'll bet batteries for re-cycle are worth more than $10. Last time I checked my local salvage yard, they were paying $15, but that's been awhile back and not a current price.
All they want out of the old batteries is the lead for melt down. You can run over a battery with a bull-dozer and pick up the pieces and still sell them as an old battery.
 
(quoted from post at 07:03:32 11/01/21) Makes a guy wonder how much they are getting paid for those old batteries? I definitely know they ain't doing it for free!
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Doesn't matter! They are entitled to whatever profit they can get. Without corporate profits we would have nothing nothing but homemade crap.
 
Yes most places want a core or get charged for one. I take one for core and Texas has a battery fee thats supposed to cleanup cutter sites, so take one for that. Get credit over battery fee and have taken off price.
 
I turned one in this morning. As much time as it took to active the card, minus my purchase, I wish that I had just brought the battery back home. But then again, who needs to store a worthless battery.
 
NY state law requires any place that sells lead acid batteries to charge a core of $5 to encourage the customer to bring back the old battery. They also must accept any lead acid battery brought in by the customer, though they are not required by law to pay for them (and I have never heard of any doing so in NY state).

I don't think there are any O'Reilly's in NY, at least not Western NY.
 
Empire Tractor has been requiring a like exchange so if you buy a group 31 then you must trade a group 31 battery in. I think
that Monroe Tractor is the same policy. A positive is the allowance for a core has typically been higher than 5 dollars.
 
Not quite true. In my days as a trucker, I delivered many loads to Exide in Reading, PA. They had a smelter at the time. I brought loads of dead batteries that came from a collection of places like NAPA, Auto Zone, Wal-Mart, and others. They had quite a procedure for recycling them, and not a scrap went to waste.

They had special forklifts that would dump the batteries a few at a time into a grinder. As they were ground up, the acid drained out the bottom and was captured for recycle. The plastic housings were ground up and recycled into new cases for their production line. And, of course, the lead was recycled into new batteries. I saw most of that process while I was waiting to get unloaded. Quite a process.
 
Back couple years ago I was doing better then that. A gal I knew worked at a parts store and if I gave her a core battery she would bring me in a battery they got in as a core but it was still good. I still have 2 or 3 of them that are still good
 
Are scrap yard pays so much a pound and they write a good
check to cash . Bomgaars gives a store gift card which is fine
Im in there about every other day anyway
 
The bigger thing with the acid is, doing something with it, is less of an expense than discarding it as a hazardous material. Avoiding cost of discarding it, is a bigger money saver than actually recycling it. The plastic being recycled, is more less a, oh heck while we're at it type of thing.
 
I'll save them I might need them for shot later. I've got 20 years worth still setting here. About a pallet one layer deep. Mostly bigger batteries.
 
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