Lakeside Auto Recyclers IA 51510

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Jake Cam

A friend of mine took a van here and was given a little over $600 and was told to go here not only suggested by my friend but, several others as well. I just got back and I felt like I just got screwed over badly. I brought in a 2003 Chevy avalanche which me and my friend that brought in the van both agree that my avalanche definitely weighs more than the van he brought in. I was given a “I’m stealing your money price”. I was only given $380! I wasn’t shooting for $600 but? I know that I should have been given way more than $380. I also feel like they stole from me and also I tried to explain but the lady inside said she couldn’t hear me and just kept saying “we go by weight” and wouldn’t let me speak. This place will steal your money. I drove an hour and 1/2 just because my friends recommended it. My friends deeply apologized for having to direct me to a place where they steal your money. my friends and many others I told this to, all agree that something isn’t right! I will share this story with others and warn them until they pay me the right amount! I will spread this info like wild fire.. i have never felt so betrayed in my entire life. Never again will I ever think about this place ever again!

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Kasey “Spazz402” Gillihan

I went to elemental the day before with the same material stainless steel clean I had a 5 gallon bucket full about 100lb. and got $35 for it. Which was more than fair. The next day I had quite a bit more and lakeside told me that they paid 8 cents more per pound I went there with well over twice the amount that I got $35 for the day before and only got $26

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William Bradley

Took my 2003 VW Passat 4motion wagon GLX into lakeside today was quoted over the phone $550 dollars for a complete car before I took it in to them. My dad and I got there and pulled up on to the scale, I went the the window and gave the lady at the window the title and my ID and was asked if I was quoted a price in which I told her yes it was $550 for the car after that she said to come back up once the car was unloaded off the trailer to get paid. We pulled up to the area for the loader to unload the car off the trailer (put the forks through the passenger side door window and the windshield to lift it off the trailer using the roof) after the car was set on the ground the guy used the loader to flip the car on its side to look to make sure the catalytic converters were still on the car. As he did this I did a thumbs up to verify the car was good or not and was we were able to head back to the scale house to get paid. The loader operator opened the window on the loader and was trying to ask me a question so I walked over to him and was asked if one of the 2 catalytic converters that were on car was an aftermarket converter... I assumed that they were both oem VW converters that came with the car as I never replaced anything on the exhaust period sense I bought the car. The loader told me one was aftermarket and the other was oem and was told by the guy that I was going to be getting paid less then what I was quoted for because of it not being an original VW catalytic converter. Not understanding what he meant I went back up to the scale house to get paid and the lady in the scale house proceeds to tell me that the loader operator called her over the radio stating I had an aftermarket catalytic converter on my car and I was now going to get only $271 (scrap price not complete car price now) for my car even though the car was complete but had 1 aftermarket catalytic converter on it and 1 original one . I proceeded to ask the lady what was the problem with it as I was quoted the $550 for a "COMPLETE" car and all I kept being told by her was the car had to have all it's "ORIGINAL" parts on it (no aftermarket parts could be on the car) to be able to have them take it as a car and not just scrap price ($150 a ton for scrap bodies as of this review) I started to have to argue with the lady stating I wasn't told any of this over the phone or when I got there and asked if their was a manager and was told I could go back over to the loader operator and discuss it with him or I could take the car back and not accept the $271 scrap price. I told the lady that the car is now no longer even fixable period sense the loader operator unloaded it with the forks and destroyed the body (this car had a bad engine but the body had no rust on it at all) I told her I wanted to talk to the manager but never got them I had the guy next to her come to the window and proceed to tell me that the catalytic converters have to be original to the car and they are not part of the exhaust system which when I tried to correct the guy he refused to listen (was telling him that catalytic converters are part of the exhaust and I was being told they are not) I had enough of the 10 minutes of arguing with these 2 people (my dad even went up to the window and asked so if you brought up a 50 year old car and wanted to bring it up to scrap it would it have to have all the original parts on it still and he was told that well almost every car that comes in here is usually all original even if it was 50 years old which is not true and a total lie) I said just give me the money and I'm not dealing with this anymore So to end my review and waste of a day Don't bother doing any business with Lakeside Auto Recyclers as they are just a bunch of scammers and want to make as much profit as they can from you even if they quoted you a price and don't honor what they told you.