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Cat Logic

I’m sure that many of you have already heard this story - especially the yards that I have been consulting since I sold my yard back in 2019.  But, I’d like to share it as an article so others can gain some knowledge from my experiences related to selling catalytic converters. When my brother and I bought our yard from our dad back in 2008, we ‘inherited’ a relationship with an older fella that would come by on the first of each month and buy our cats.  We had used him for roughly 10 years at that time, and we felt confident that he was paying us top dollar for our cats.  After all, he was a nice guy and seemed to be just scraping by.  In my mind that meant that he was not making much profit off of our cats.   Somewhere around 2009, he showed up to pick up our cats in a brand-new Dodge Crewcab Dually 4WD that was nicer than anything I had ever owned. The presence of this new truck told me that he is making good money off of our cats, and it got me thinking about ‘testing the waters’ to