Raw Materials & Dry Clay Prices

     While jumping from website to website the other night to see what some of the other distributors are pricing materials for, I had a thought. If I'm doing this and you're doing this, why not make it easer for one of us? Ok, you win. I'll make it easy for you. Instead of having prices from different distributors tucked away in my spreadsheet program, I'll print it out and hang it on the wall behind the counter. Big letters and numbers and highlight the best deals, you won't even need your glasses. How does that sound? That way, you won't have to spend all this time trying to find the best deal. Now I wouldn't do that if our prices were higher than everyone else. As a mater of fact, out of 120 Raw materials and Clays we were lower than our competitors on 112 of them. Not bad huh? Which competitors? Let's say 300 miles from 72701. Any more than that and shipping starts to cloud the picture. (see cantaloupes below)

The two most common statements I hear about Material Prices are:

#1 "When I lived in California I could get that for $x.xx"

    Cantaloupes are 7cents a pound in the field in California.

They're 90cents a pound by the time they get to Arkansas

IGA sells them for 99cents a pound. That's a good deal.

If you can get someone in CA to pick and ship cantaloupes for less than 99 cents a pound, go for it. But I want to know about it, maybe I could get them to you for 89 cents a pound. :)

#2 "The last time I bought that from _____ it was $x.xx"

If the last time you bought a material was 1998 (or even 1 year ago), you may be in for a shock! Some of this has gone up a little, others a little more. Remember that $3.00 a gallon thing?

But, if you are standing in our store, we have the best deal around -

Excluding Cantaloupes!

Keep it muddy!

Mike

PS     If you are out of our area and can't come by to compare, wouldn't it be cool if your local supplier did this for you? Ask them and see what they say.

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All prices on website are in US dollars. All prices and inventory subject to change without notice (but we'll do our best to keep it updated). Thanks, Mike

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