1. Welcome Hearth.com Guests and Visitors - Please enjoy our forums!
    Hearth.com GOLD Sponsors who help bring the site content to you:
    Jotul Cast Iron Stoves
    Woodstock Soapstone Stoves
    Hearth and Home (QuadraFire and Harman Stoves)

If you have recently purchased a Quadrafire pellet stove DON’T READ THIS POST!

Post in 'The Pellet Mill - Pellet and Multifuel Stoves' started by Choppedliver, Jan 14, 2008.

Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.

  1. Choppedliver New Member

    joined: Jan 19, 2006
    56 posts
    Denver Colorado
    Every once in a while I like to go around town and shop the competition to see what there up to.
    a few of the store's look like there doing good, some of them look so-so, one store looks like its
    going under, and one other store has plans to close this summer, and then there's McGuckin's hardware
    When they have to much inventory of any thing they put it on clearance. So I'm thinking they have
    to much inventory in Quadrafire Classic Bay 1200 pellet stoves. Picture of there Price tag is attached

    Attached Files:

    Choppedliver, Jan 14, 2008
    #1

    Helpful Sponsor Ads!

  2. Xena Minister of Fire

    joined: Nov 30, 2005
    2,436 posts
    South Shore MA
    Xena, Jan 14, 2008
    #2

  3. webbie Administrator

    joined: Nov 17, 2005
    10,939 posts
    Western Mass.
    There are often "one-up" deals to be had in far-off places! In fact, you may have just helped them unload their inventory!

    If they are a large dealer, that price is only slightly below their cost, and who knows if Quad is offering some incentive. That means they either dump it now and use the cash all year, or keep it in the hopes that demand=supply.

    I think there is, in general, more supply than demand so they are probably making a good move. Our former moderator, MSG, worked there (I think).....

    Things are tough in the business world these days. I ran a shop for 20+ years and in that time I don't think I ever sold a stove below my cost...maybe AT my cost a few times, but never below....never had to! That was one of the benefits of never working on the "banks" money.....rather our own "profits" were in the warehouse, so we could just look at the large piles and say "money in the bank" (someday).
    webbie, Jan 14, 2008
    #3

  4. Gooserider Minister of Fire

    joined: Nov 20, 2006
    6,737 posts
    Northeastern MA (near Lowell)
    Link doesn't work - got error message
    Tried a few variants, those didn't work either...

    Gooserider
    Gooserider, Jan 14, 2008
    #4

  5. webbie Administrator

    joined: Nov 17, 2005
    10,939 posts
    Western Mass.
    Worked fine for me, Goose......might be a Linux thing!
    webbie, Jan 14, 2008
    #5

  6. MainePellethead Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 9, 2007
    865 posts
    Southern Maine
    I agree Zeta! 4 employees to over 300! Always love hearing the beginnings of any company....hardware or stoves or whatever...lol
    MainePellethead, Jan 14, 2008
    #6

  7. davevassar Member

    joined: Oct 30, 2007
    168 posts
    South Central MA
    Where do you live? According to my calculations, you're paying upwards of 8% for Sales Tax?
    davevassar, Jan 14, 2008
    #7

  8. Xena Minister of Fire

    joined: Nov 30, 2005
    2,436 posts
    South Shore MA

    The link shows McGuckin’s hardware is in Boulder, CO.
    Xena, Jan 14, 2008
    #8

  9. Gooserider Minister of Fire

    joined: Nov 20, 2006
    6,737 posts
    Northeastern MA (near Lowell)
    Wierd - it's not a Linux thing, it's an OPERA thing... the same site works fine in Konquerer (the KDE file manager / web browser...) but doesn't work in Opera! Perhaps I should file a bug report...

    Interestingly enough, Opera has no problem at all with the Acid2 HTML standards compliance test, renders the test page almost instantly and with no errors. Konq only gets about 95% there, and takes a while to do it... (IE reportedly fails the test badly, will give you a bunch of red blocks, the correct image is a smiley face picture and the phrase "Hello World")

    Gooserider
    Gooserider, Jan 14, 2008
    #9

  10. BrotherBart He Who Moderates

    joined: Nov 18, 2005
    21,949 posts
    Northern Virginia
    Without MSG business must have gotten so bad that they are having a fire sale. :)
    BrotherBart, Jan 14, 2008
    #10

  11. jtp10181 Minister of Fire

    joined: Feb 26, 2007
    3,724 posts
    Madison, WI
    FYI I believe all Quad dealers were given the option to sell that one particular unit (CB1200) at a reduced price to help Quad sell through excess warehouse inventory.
    jtp10181, Jan 15, 2008
    #11

  12. webbie Administrator

    joined: Nov 17, 2005
    10,939 posts
    Western Mass.
    Ah, the plot thickens!
    Just like in the fashion world, mid-season is already too late for the stove biz. Traditionally, sales (and even fire sales, in some rare cases) are usually from jan 15 to about March 1....after that it is too late to move ANY product, no matter what the price.
    webbie, Jan 15, 2008
    #12

  13. jtp10181 Minister of Fire

    joined: Feb 26, 2007
    3,724 posts
    Madison, WI
    Actually that went in effect... hmmm... I think at least a month ago. Not sure how long it is / was lasting.
    jtp10181, Jan 15, 2008
    #13

  14. Gooserider Minister of Fire

    joined: Nov 20, 2006
    6,737 posts
    Northeastern MA (near Lowell)
    FWIW, I did send a bug report to the McGuckin’s Webmaster, and he responded saying there was a known issue with Opera - they are hoping to do an upgrade soon, and hopes that will fix it. - So it isn't my end that has the problem...

    Gooserider
    Gooserider, Jan 15, 2008
    #14
Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.

Share This Page