In London we pay £157.50 (including VAT) for a 10 yard skip.
The company cheerfully tells customers over the phone that
cash payments do not incur VAT!

I just paid £120 in Reading for a 6 yard on street. It had to be a cash deal
as I needed it at very short notice (i.e. 20 minutes) on a Saturday on road
and they couldn't get a licence on the weekend. It was there less than 24
hours. Unlike the normal case, it was half empty by the morning. It had a
lot of good quality (but atrocious taste) furniture in it, including 3 huge
wardrobe doors with large sheets of Walnut veneer, which several neighbours
were turning covetous eyes to.

Still, at least the estate agent paid for it out of the previous owner's
deposit after the house clearers took all the light resalable stuff and left
the bulky and nasty bits. We had to cut the sofa up to get it out of the
house. It had obviously entered through the (previously) sash windows which
had been replaced by 'orrible uPVC casements.

Christian.