Despite being a windbag, I will leave the name calling to others...
It's not worth getting in to it.
I always try to make understood, that my comments are relative
to OUR area, and not everywhere..
The one positive thing I can offer, is that I actually work with pellet sales.
Maybe the Lord Z28 does too, he just has a different business model.
Ours has worked for quite a while, but... whatever.
For sure, I can tell you, at least here, there is no $100 or even $50 profit on a ton of pellets.
Believe what you want.
I know some of you guys believe this conspiracy deal, but with all due respect, it is flawed thinking...
Today, because all the nearby BBS are out, and our supply is limited,
we were selling a15 bag limit. We load for you, bag by bag.
Most of these people would have taken a ton or two.
You sell a ton, you load the pallet on their vehicle in minutes.
Now you do the math... Sell 50 bags in minutes, or load bag by bag, 15 to a customer
in their back seats, or trunks, or under pickup covers.
It's labor intensive. Added labor is time and money..
As for the distribution.
I've mentioned this before. The truckers that bring our material down from Canada,
do not like to go back there empty.
If they can't broker a load back, they don't come down.
And you can't absorb the price for them to go back empty.
So the result is, the product that would like to be sold here, is sitting in a yard.
If it sits in the yard, nobody wins.
It's not that complicated. At least to those that understand how things really work,
and not how others claim it works...
Now I hope some read this stuff, and get it.
If you don't, that's fine, but I see no value in childish name calling...
Or trying to convince those that do, otherwise.
But we have nothing to gain at all, by not telling you how it is.