Are we all too cheap?

[samtheman365]

I donated 1 cubic metre of high quality seasoned hardwood firewood to a charity auction.

Usual selling price for this quality product is a very reasonable £90.

It went for ...........£190!!!!! ok it was for charity but even so it has made me wonder if we are all too cheap, even Certainly Wood.

[skyhuck]

I've paid over the odds for things in charity auctions, it would a pretty poor show not to IMO.

[Stephen Blair]

i bought a £20 kids bike for £250 and gave it away and was auctioned off as a climber for the day for £450 8 years ago and was never used:laugh1:

[gensetsteve]

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.

[Mark James]

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.

[s.varty]

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.

[Dave Martin]

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

[Dave Martin]

I bought a £20 rally jacket for £500 as I had just been presented with a prize cheque for £1000.

[gensetsteve]

And did you have violins playing in the background Steve

 

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.

[slippery]

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