What a pallet actually costs in Australia.

A used Australian standard 1165 pallet generally runs between $8 and $25 depending on grade, volume and where it has to go. New ones run higher, roughly $25 to $55. Those are national guide ranges rather than quotes. For a real number: we charge $18.99 a pallet ex GST delivered across Greater Sydney for a sound recycled standard pallet in lots of 50 or more, and the published prices other suppliers list are in the table above.

There is no single price, and anyone who gives you one without asking the grade and the quantity is guessing. The four things that move it are grade, how many you are buying, how far it has to travel and whether the price includes delivery. A sound recycled standard pallet delivered in Sydney is $18.99 ex GST from us at 50 or more.

If you mean the Australian standard 1165 by 1165 that most freight in this country moves on, and you are buying for a business rather than one for the garden, budget between $18 and $25 a pallet delivered for recycled stock, and $25 upward for new. Below about $10 you are usually looking at an ex yard price with the delivery still to come.

We pay $3 a pallet ex GST for A grade and $2 for B grade, any type, when the pile is sorted with nothing broken through it, subject to inspection. The only other published buyback in the country is We Buy Pallets at $3.00 for a clean standard pallet and $1.50 for a dirty or broken one. Euro, export, plastic and heavy duty stock is quoted per lot because the value moves with grade and with demand at the time.

Yes, and if you are a business generating them every week you should be. The usual mistake is paying someone to take away pallets that are worth money. Photograph the pile side on, one photo per stack, and the price comes back in about a minute. No count needed, the scan does that.

We do, on 60 or more reusable pallets in Greater Sydney, because at that number the pallets pay for the vehicle. Below it, or on a mixed or damaged lot, the pallets do not cover the run and it is quoted as a clearance with the price in writing before anything is booked. Be careful with anyone promising a free pickup without asking the count: the cost usually turns up later.

Three outcomes and you want to know which one you are getting before the truck arrives. Reusable stock is bought. Repairable stock is credited as cores. Broken timber and unknown mixed lots are cleared at a quoted price. One enquiry covers all three and the split is agreed in writing first.

Because a published price can be compared, and most of this trade is quoted per enquiry so it cannot be. We publish ours because the comparison is the point. If a cheaper price turns up that includes delivery and a written grade, take it.