Barrow bags hardwood

[kerryp]

Hi all looking at barrow bags for selling hardwood logs but not realy sure on a price to sell what's a realistic price hope you don't mind me asking cheers all

[SbTVF]

We do them £25 each or 4 for £90.

Even though they take a little extra effort to fill, they help fill the spare space on the truck when delivering and makes it possible to deliver 3.5m3 instead of just 2m3 so it’s definitely worth keeping them popular.

I could probably charge more for them, say £30 for one or £100 for 4 and still get plenty of orders but keeping the average order at £100 including kindling seems to work nicely.

That’s for kiln dried by the way.

[Bloom]

I'm struggling to sell mine (split hardwood) at £15 a bag. 

[kerryp]

Thanks for replying lads 25 I was thinking to be honest the delivery side of barrow bags with poor access got to be a plus many thanks

[Richard 1234]

I'm struggling to sell mine (split hardwood) at £15 a bag. 

It’s too cheap people may think they aren’t dry enough! Or just rubbish, not everyone wants things dirt cheap

[Alycidon]

What you have to consider is the delivery cost in time, fuel, admin and vech running costs and the fact that you only get maybe 10% of the bags back unless you tip them out onsite which many people do not want.   

 

I sell seasoned hard at £35 and kiln dried Ash at £40,  this is though top quality stuff.   If they sell fine, if they dont they can stay right where they are.     I do overprice these compared to the bigger sizes to encourage people to buy a more realistic quantity.   A 5kw stove running evenings and weekends will go through a barrow bag in a week maybe less.

 

Pointless being a busy man and making no money.   Seen many people come and go doing that.

 

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Edited January 5, 2018 by Alycidon