I always go to Trademark Metal Recycling when I have a good sized load of crushed aluminum cans (crushed to keep the volume as compact as possible); it is convenient, fast and easy to get paid in cash. On August 20, 2025 I received 63 cents a pound for aluminum cans. read more

I can't recommend a place that has racist workers and is dishonest with their customers I went in to sell my scrap metal,and these individuals didn't accept my passport because they said it wasn't a valid form of identification so they didn't buy my merchandise. I felt discriminated and harassed. Therefore I can't recommend such an awful place. Of course I will never go there again I have found another place that treats people with respect and dignity. I was given a good price for my scrap. At the new place I have found. They took my passport as the form of valid identification with no problems. So if you're of color stay away from this place this was my experience there. read more

Too many rules! God forbid you walk the 25 feet through there empty "warehouse " as they call it, directly to the pay window. No no... that's sacred territory. You are demanded to walk all the way around the building... outside... to the window where you pickup your diamonds and golden treasures... not! Also while I was there another customer came in and was walking up to the scale. No no... can't do that! "Sir, you must wait at the edge of the concrete way over there". Too much BS for me. read more

The level of service at this trademark location is an absolute joke. I drove an hour to get here on a Saturday, when the closing time is listed as 11:45 (previously 12 noon to allow the yard time to process new arrivals). I arrived at 11:38 with 1 box of copper wire and was turned away because apparently, now the front gate closes at 11:35 with no notice of that change available anywhere. This trademark location also pays lower rates on nearly all materials when compared to the Ocala location, and does not accept #1 barebrite copper (a few cents per pound higher than #2), while Ocala does. The actual laborers are nice people, the whole office needs to be fired and start from scratch because this is obviously no way to do good business. Find a different yard to go to . read more

My wife and I just had a great experience at Trademark Metals Recycling on Beaver St in Jacksonville FL. My wife and I are what you would call Diet Coke-a-holics. We purchase multiple flats of cans at a time. A few years ago, we started crushing our cans, bagging the crushed cans until we could turn them in for cash. When we discovered we no longer has space for our bags of cans, we sought out a company that gave a good price. We found that at most places, the price was around 47 cents per pound, but at Trademark Metals Recycling, it was 54 cents per pound, so we loaded up our vehicle and drove to Trademark Metal Recycling about 10 miles from our house. The process was easy: Just dump the cans into a hopper which transferred the cans to a weighing bin. I knew we had about a hundred pounds of cans, but they measured out at 139 pounds (that's a lot of Diet Cokes!) and we wee promptly paid around $75! All in all, doing business with the folks at Trademark Metals Recycling was a very pleasant experience. read more

So here's what happened and you be the judge. I'm new to the gainesville area and have never used this facility before. I had 2 very large bags (the bags are 3000lb working load limit and 5x design industrial bags) of steel rings weighing about 800 pounds taking up my entire 8 ft truck bed and also a nice compact wire tied pretty bundle of #9 steel center bars about 3ft long containing around 14 or so bars and a couple of the bars were 4.25ft or so long lying below the big bags on the truck. After calling the metal recycling facility the day before arriving I told them I was a new customer and asked if I needed an account which they said no and one of the management quoted me a price for steel and gave the hours of operation and said to give that price to the cashier. This is where I should have asked every single nitty gritty detailed question and been as specific as possible but I ASSUMED this facility was like all the rest I had been to around Florida/Georgia Tallahassee, Orlando, Atlanta etc and also the facility should have informed me about their policies etc since I told them I was new and had never been to their facility. I arrived at the facility the following morning and pulled onto the scales and told the scales operator what I had on the truck and the quoted price management gave me. The scales operator wrote the entire load down as unprepared rebar even though half the load was steel rings and said to tell the cashier the quoted price management gave. He also mentioned because the load is NOT on a trailer the facility cannot use any machines etc to unload the truck which is mostly understandable because of damaging a vehicle however I've been to many many metal recycling facilities in Florida which have no problem using a machine to unload your truck as long as everything is prepared as to easily do one or two picks with a machine safely and my load was. On top of all of this, I have all the industrial rigging you would ever need to unload this with a machine (crane rigging 12 to 60 ton capacity etc) so it's not like I come to these places unprepared and with the loads looking like a complete and utter mess. The scales operator made a couple phone calls to ask if an exception could be made because management failed to mention this important info but ultimately the facility and the boss on site refused so I spent the next hour and a half unloading the big bags by hand and also unstrapped and unbundled the #9 bars then unloaded them one at a time. I went back to the scales and reweighed and got my ticket and then pulled around to the office and went inside. I told the cashier the management's name and the quoted price and the cashier said she needed to call management to confirm so I waited. After a reasonable amount of time the cashier said she needed me to call management and then gave me the management number. I called and they said they couldn't give me the quoted price because there were 3 or 4 bars that were 1 foot longer than all the others and these few bars being longer means the ENTIRE TRUCK LOAD is now deemed at a significantly lower price than the price quoted the previous day. No one mentioned this before I hand unloaded everything and in order to get the quoted price I would need to reload everything by hand and rework the scales minus the few long bars. I ended up getting a much lower price for everything (about half the price of what I should have gotten). because I'm not going to spend hours reloading everything and this company knows that, Ultimately this company put me in multiple binds and while I wouldn't say they did it on purpose, they were not 100% honest in this business tactics. Because I've never had any issues like this with all the recycling loads in all the different places around Florida and Georgia, I failed to be stupid specific with an entire list of questions for this one facility so if you take anything away from this then make it this, write down a list of every single stupid question you can think of that will be envolved in your Inparticular recycling company trip and record the conversation when you call them or just go somewhere else. I went to this facility on a Saturday morning because not many others were open in Gainesville Florida and my work schedule contains very long hours almost every day of the week which leaves me limited to do these recycling trips. read more

trademark metals in gainesville. is a garbage. yard they are rude and. donot. pay. they give the lowest price available. i refuse to bring any metal back to this yard every again i'll drive. other places. they screwed me big time with clean alum. extruded. heavy stuff and they gave me sheet aluminum pricing stright up bullshit read more