shocked at the price of these logs

[gensetsteve]

The reason we packed in was people round our way selling at £60 a cu metre loose unless you can get £100 a cube not worth doing imo. The dunno whats in me truck but its going to be cheaper than im down the road brigade have killed it.

[Tom D]

I'd be happy with £60 a cube! I sell for £50 if you buy 5 cube.

[gensetsteve]

I'd be happy with £60 a cube! I sell for £50 if you buy 5 cube.

 

How do you make that pay ? in this part of the word its below cost price and I have not added labour to it yet.

[Tom D]

I don't buy in wood, its all from jobs, + it seems to be the going rate around here, trust me I have stuck to my guns for ages and thats why I have so much wood left. I recently did a job where we bought around 250 tons of hardwood standing, i sold the saw logs and then the firewood, it wasn't worth keeping. The guys who bought the firewood are both competitors, they both sell it for less than I do, I don't know how they make a living. What I do know is I was far better off selling it in the round at 35-45 a ton than keeping it and splitting it...

[Rob D]

if people are paying this price down hear in devon for winter fuel most private log merchants around here are only charging 1/3 of that per cube of logs i would feel bad taking that sort of money of customers

that is my personel issue:thumbup:

thanks

andrew

 

 

So you are charging £55-00 to £60 a cube your way (equates to a 1/3 of his price)?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Rob D]

I'd be happy with £60 a cube! I sell for £50 if you buy 5 cube.

 

 

That is cheap - do you not have anyone on here who would take a lorry load off you?

[RobRainford]

I've got these ill sell at £4.95 each

 

[shavey]

Ok, so he's selling at around £140 a cube inc vat and you say its around 3 times more than you. I'm not sure what you're charging, but lets say yours are £60 a cube. You are possibly making £15 cube profit on those. Just think if you started selling at £140 assuming your overheads stay the same. That would give you over £90 per cube profit, 6 times what you're making now.

 

So, a large percentage of your customers are going elsewhere. Stuff 'em! If you keep one third of you original customers, you will be earning twice as much as now. Just think of all that extra time you'll have to spend doing other stuff 'cos you only need to process a third of what you're used to doing.

 

Rough figures, but it does work!

 

 

thanks for that youre right on that score there are a few customers who are too picky and are always complaining

 

so i better put the prices up and give them something to realy moan at:thumbup1::lol:

[Axholme]

We sell these for £15 and £5. People love them. They're a great talking point at a party.

[Wookie]

Now i'm not being daft here but is it me or does his vat price seem far to low?