Snipe said:
Nikitas said:
tyru007 said:
Still looking for a good source of pellets in the Bunswick/Topsham or Lewiston/Auburn areas.
Seems like plenty of sources north (Waterville and Bangor) and south, but hard to find around here.
Lowes and HD do not sell them anymore.
Aubachons has them for $280 per ton. (not delivered)
Stove shop in Auburn has them at $260/ton. (not delivered)
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I bought ten tons at Lowes in Auburn yesterday for $236.50 per ton plus $59.00 delivery to Lewiston.
Hey guys,
I confirm that Lowe's in Auburn definately has pellets(although you won't see them out front anymore because they're afraid of them being stolen). I was in there today talking with a Vinny who was very helpful. $236.50 plus $59 for delivery to Lewiston. Here's the best part though: They said as long as I order them now they'll hold off delivering them until September or October so I don't have to take up all that room on my screened in porch until I'm done using it for the season. They were the Greene Team brand, a hardwood pellet. They are located in Garads Fort, PA. Anyone ever burn these before? The salesman said he burned these last year with good luck or so he says. Said they used to buy from a grass seed(?) company(I believe it's Pennington) in the past and had terrible results with those so they went back to the Greene Team brand. I opted to go to Lowes because I just don't have the time or the type of truck it takes to transport these pellets. I really don't want to be handling these bags anymore than I need to.
Mark
Well, I finally got my pellets today. I ordered them from lowes 2 weeks ago and my original intent was to have them delivered in Sept. but the more I got to thinking about it, I didn't think that was such a good idea. I just had a feeling that when Sept. came my pellets weren't gonna be available or there was gonna be such a back log that I wouldn't get them until Nov. or later. SO I went to Lowes and told them that I wanted my pellets delivered ASAP so they put me down for the 24th of June. Great I said and I walked out back where they were kept and lo and behold there was only about 7 pallets of the Greene Team brand (the ones I wanted) and about 30 Pallets of the Natures Fuel (Pennington) brand which I certainly didn't want. I went back in the store and told the manager that I didn't want the Pennington I wanted what I originally ordered, Greene Team. "Oh yeah" he says, "no problem. We'll put your name on them so they won't get delivered to someone else." So we walked ouside in the RAIN with a little piece of paper with my order number on it which promptly became illegible. Sigh. So I'm not too happy at this point. But I leave and go home and make my own sign
with my name on it, go back to Lowes and put them in a ziplock and put them in the shrink wrap covering. I know what your thinking, you are nuts for doing all this. I know but I just know that when the 24th came, I wasn't gonna see Greene Team pellets unloaded and I wasn't going to be happy.
It's not over. I'm getting paranoid as time was going by today because I can just see the truck driver pulling out back of Lowes, "load 6 pallets of pellets will ya Vinny?". Vinny doesn't really care which pellets he loads and all the Greene Team pellets are gone. The 24th comes and I'm out of luck. I call a friend of mine who has a 10,000# trailer and we go and get them ourselves. I give him some money for his troubles and they're sitting in my garage. End of story.
Moral of the story: be carefull when you order from Lowes. They're gonna give you what they got. Pellets are pellets to them. Oh yeah, and they're not taking anymore orders. They're done. They're already backlogged something like 18,000 bags.
Sorry guys. Just wanted you to feel my frustration.
Mark
