What Are These Worth?

perry

four inch red bricks....

A guy I'm doing some work for wants to get rid of about five hundred of the newer red bricks. He either wants to sel them to me or trade for work. They've been in the dirt for a couple of years but are pretty clean... I just checked the price of new ones where I live and they are 89 cents apiece.

(I can maybe use them on my own property, so I wouldn't be making money on them...)

Thanks -p

dakzaag

Probably need to post a picture. Common brick for a wall that have sat around are worth $.10 to $.15 each, less if you have to round them up versus having them stacked on a pallet.

4 X 4 pavers are only $.30 new, I think you should offer to dispose of them for no cost to the owner.

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Snow Man

20.00 a ton

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Tscarborough

They are worth exactly what you are willing to pay for them.

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stacker

unless you are the seller and its all you can get.

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Tscarborough

Well, if you are the seller, they are worth exactly what you are willing to take for them.

<shrug> In reality, 500 ground used old brick are not worth digging up.

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perry

They're 2X4X8" and they are in a pile and fairly clean... 20 cents apiece?

dakzaag

A friend of mine once said " its only a good deal if you can use them."

That little tidbit has saved me quite a few times from buying something I really didn't need but was tempted to buy because I knew the price was good.

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perry

I hear that, Dakzaag. I will use them for sure. I just want to give the guy a fair exchange, and he has no idea what they're worth either-

Tscarborough

Cleaned and stacked on pallets, I pay no more than $170 per thousand for used brick, and only then if they are solids (and they have quantities of 10,000 or more). So a quarter a brick is probably fair to both of you.

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HgWhiz

Some people collect old bricks. The solid ones that have names stamped in them instead of holes. A former customer of mine(I hate that I lost his phone#) said he pays $5 per brick and would buy as many as he possibly could.

Tscarborough

If you find his number, give me a call, I will break him.

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stacker

alot has to do with what brick it is.if i remember right joasis is a brick collector and i owe him an OSP brick(which i have in my truck).my dad was a brick collector and after he passed we donated his collection to the museum here in town.
an OSP(oklahoma state penn)is a rare brick and therefore worth more than a coffeville brick.my dad a few bricks he paid 100.00 for.
so it just depends on the brick.

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