Wth copper nearing 5 dollars a pound
 A 1 KW ballast will  have 6 to 10 pounds
 Of copper in them.  So yes it going make it
 Much harder to find ballast. 

  I can see those mercury ballast been sitting for high price for years ended up gettng scrapped out.

Yea that explain a lot sense. If rude dude already have pile of 20x of ballast 1kw its lot copper for money!

Yea that explain a lot sense. If rude dude already have pile of 20x of ballast 1kw its lot copper for money!

It would be better if they went to a good home where they would get preserved than to get scrapped.

It would be better if they went to a good home where they would get preserved than to get scrapped.

Yeah but as the owner of those ballasts, if he has the option to give them to you for free or sell them to you for a cheap price, or go and scrap them and possibly get $50 for each ballast which one do you think he is going to do? lol.
If he has 20 ballasts that's potentially $1,000 worth of copper.

Yeah it's a bit unfortunate but the scrap value of so many 1000w ballasts might be enticing. Perhaps if you initially offered to pay a fair price, say scrap value for one, they would have reacted better. They also might think you're a scrapper looking for a quick buck if you ask for all of them IMO.

In my area, 1000w MH ballasts are around $25 used so I think offering $10 for one would be somewhat fair.   

That being said, if they do end up in the dumpster and it's legal to dumpster dive in your area, then by all means grab them.

Yeah it's a bit unfortunate but the scrap value of so many 1000w ballasts might be enticing. Perhaps if you initially offered to pay a fair price, say scrap value for one, they would have reacted better. They also might think you're a scrapper looking for a quick buck if you ask for all of them IMO.

In my area, 1000w MH ballasts are around $25 used so I think offering $10 for one would be somewhat fair.

I stated to the person that I was wanting them so I could reuse them. I also stated that I collect ballasts and I was wanting these to add to my collection (there were a few MV ballasts in there) but noooooooooo, they are too "dangerous". I also said I know how to use them but that got me nowhere.

You bet I will grab them if they end up in the dumpster!

Mobile home park

That explains it.

It's at my grandma's mobile home park and nobody cares if you dig in the dumpster and besides, I am sneaky about it. 

It's probably not a good idea to talk about being sneaky, it could be interpreted the wrong way by some people. It might be ok at this location, but that's not going to be the case everywhere.

Probably time to wrap this up, folks.

It's probably not a good idea to talk about being sneaky, it could be interpreted the wrong way by some people. It might be ok at this location, but that's not going to be the case everywhere.

Probably time to wrap this up, folks.

I agreed with Ria.

I do notice there few people do get easy offend word "sneaky" similar to word trespass but for me I do not care much about dumpster and I am used to see many time one of my tenant like to dig up something inside the dumpster or garbage cans in my own home mobile park. Rare to see outsiders stranger messing around my garbage stuffs and dump illegal stuffs which I do not like it.

Just try be humble yourself and no need to tell us about your deep detail of actions. But just display interesting something things if you already got one.

Ok, I have gotten over it.