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I dont think so. I tipped of 1 cu metre of perfect cut ash beech and oak all bone dry under 20% . The woman shrieked you got to be joking expecting alot more for the money. We had a long discussion and I apologised that she expected more but explained that we probably made £30-£40 out of the load. She assumed the wood came to us free. On leaving she asked if we were definately giving up logs in future. I had explained we were calming log sales down to concentrate on our wholesale kindling.

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I bought a signed Liverpool shirt at an auction for £250 hardly a reflection on what it's worth.

An auctions an auction hardly worth basing pricing something around.

 

And we,re usually had quite a few drinks by the time the auction starts, if only my customers were in the same state when i give them my quote, this time next year id be a millionaire.

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I dont think so. I tipped of 1 cu metre of perfect cut ash beech and oak all bone dry under 20% . The woman shrieked you got to be joking expecting alot more for the money. We had a long discussion and I apologised that she expected more but explained that we probably made £30-£40 out of the load. She assumed the wood came to us free. On leaving she asked if we were definately giving up logs in future. I had explained we were calming log sales down to concentrate on our wholesale kindling.

 

And did you have violins playing in the background Steve :biggrin:

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And did you have violins playing in the background Steve :biggrin:

 

Yes and I was impressed with my politeness and maturity. I think alot of people in this country in the middle ranks are in the same boat. Unless you are a banker, politition or crook then you just fiddle a bit more. :biggrin:

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last time i bought a "cube", I was astonished at how little I got for £145 !, especially as when I stacked it, it only measured .6 of a meter!

 

I complained and the bloke brought me some more but it was wet. He saide that the back of his truck was a cubic meter, I told him that I thought a cubic meter should really occupy well over a metre space but he he wasn't impressed.

 

Suffice to say it was the LAST firewood I ever bought!, Now if I run low, I go to builders merchants and get pallets or scrap

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