What's an old shipping container worth?

[Jock]

Have an old 20ft shipping container that I don't really need anymore.
Someone advertising in local paper for them but not sure what it would be worth.
Had it for 15 years and probably 10-15 years old when i got it. It's pretty rough looking on the outside, a bit of rust and a few patches here and there but is water tight. Needs a couple of feet of new wood on the floor just inside the door but other than tidy enough inside. Got insulated sides on it.

Any ideas on rough price I should be asking for?

 

[RobFZS]

got any pics?

i needed a box van body shifting so stripped all the ali and other metal and got about 400 quid in scrap

 

[Jock]

What sort of weight would be in a 20ft container?
If I know the scrap price at least it's a starting of point.

 

[ianw]

2 to 2.5 ton I'd guess

 

[RobFZS]

was about 500kg of ali and then 100kg or so of the frame and then a load of wood, not much to them really.

 

[S J H]

£500 or so I'd have thought decent ones are £1000 round here £1900 for new

 

[Shetlandsheep]

Up here people advertise them for £1.5k-2k, whether they get that I don't know. Planners tend to try to regard them as non mobile in planning terms.

 

[Farfrae]

£500 or so I'd have thought decent ones are £1000 round here £1900 for new

That's about right from prices when I was looking.

 

[jamesy]

Recently sold a 1978 insulated one for £800. It was in decent nick for its considerable age. The buyer said yes without even thinking so it was obviously too cheap! I've two more that's just gone up in price!!

 

[roscoe erf]

Recently sold a 1978 insulated one for £800. It was in decent nick for its considerable age. The buyer said yes without even thinking so it was obviously too cheap! I've two more that's just gone up in price!!

transport from you would be the killer

 

[jamesy]

Indeed, but will get them sold locally I would think.

 

[Walterp]

Seen one one next door, just sold for £1,200, in reasonable condition and similar length.

Transport is more important.

 

[Sussex Martin]

I have three containers, a scabby one that cost £100, (£150 delivery) one office type with only a side pedestrian door ideal for a tea hut and feed room cost £300 and a nearly new insulated for free. I was always told 'it isn't what you know but who you know' proved correct on all three!

 

[Badshot]

I have three containers, a scabby one that cost £100, (£150 delivery) one office type with only a side pedestrian door ideal for a tea hut and feed room cost £300 and a nearly new insulated for free. I was always told 'it isn't what you know but who you know' proved correct on all three!

Any more of the insulated ones about point them in my direction

 

[Sussex Martin]

Any more of the insulated ones about point them in my direction

That was pure luck, supplying company went bust the day after it was delivered, driver didn't bother putting the paperwork into the office when he got his marching orders on the same day!

 

[Jim75]

That was pure luck, supplying company went bust the day after it was delivered, driver didn't bother putting the paperwork into the office when he got his marching orders on the same day!

Aghh what did the driver get for his trouble ;-)

 

[Sussex Martin]

Aghh what did the driver get for his trouble ;-)

Nothing, he stables a couple of ponies at my place and we both use it.

 

[Andrew K]

I have one of these secure offices for sale if anyones looking?

 

[puntabrava]

6k, you can always come down a wee nibbet.