Perhaps that's the reason - the supplier doesn't have higher-margin goods to sell as they just sell lumber unlike general chain hardware stores- so they have to get their profits from lumber sales alone.
In a former life I used to ship product all over this globe, including timber products. On a volume or length basis, it's not that bad. The bio/phyto costs are not too horrendous, and floating cans out of BC are, whilst way dearer than ex LA, not enough to justify the pricing I paid. Maybe the retailer here isn't putting massive margins on it. Maybe the primary producer is? I dunno but if the latter, its about time someone at back end of the supply chain made really good $ for a change and makes me feel a little better about the retail cost here.
Buy a mill and add some value to it yourself? But then have to deal with the public more, which I couldn't be paid enough for if it were me.
Would take a very special person or lot of $ to deal with the public every day. So perhaps that's why 5 sticks of lumber cost $880.
What are the dimensions of the timber so I can work out the cube rate.
Approximately NZ$4200/m3. RS clears.
Something isn't adding up there. You'd have a ute tray full of timber for 0.2m3
300x50@4m, 250x50@4m, 200x50@4m, 150@50@4mx2. One of us owes the other a beer, I'm just not sure which one.
Yes it's 0.21m3, a fair load on the ute, every pair of hands it goes through would double the price.
