My little story goes like this......
Because I only have room for two ton I have to buy my third ton right around this time of year. Wasn't a problem last year. Lowe's had plenty of Green Team's left. This year however....Lowe's is out of Green Teams so I was left scrambling yesterday looking for a decent pellet. Doesn't sound like a big deal, but what yesterday made me realize was that in this area (Southern NH) we seem to be in a black hole of low end pellets and very uneducated sales people. I called just about everyone around here that sold pellets and most of them didn't even know what kind they were. Not to mention they seemed annoyed that I was even asking. The best one had to be the company that I was told (on this forum) sold Okanagans. I called them this morning and the conversation went like this:
Me: Hello...do you still sell pellets?
Her: yup
Me: What kind do you carry?
Her: You mean who makes them?
Me: yes
Her: HEY BILL
WHAT KIND OF PELLETS WE GOT?.....YEAH!! WHO MAKES THEM?
Her: They're Okanawas
Me: you mean Okanagans?
Her: OKANAWAS sir..
End of conversation....
Now unless Toyota has decided it's better to sell wood pellets rather than cars that can't stop....I'd say she was mistaken..
I hate to make a big deal about this, but I'm really hoping someday manufacturers can teach their dealers/distributors more about pellets so they can at least sound intelligent and don't treat the consumer like he or she is asking a lot of prying questions for no reason.
The happy ending to this story is I finally went to pelletsales.com which is only a couple of miles from me and the nice people down there gave me a few of bags to try out. I'll most likely buy a ton of something from them tomorrow. I didn't go there in the first place because I was really hoping to get some Okie's or Barefoots or Hamer's or some like that, but like I said....we seem to be in a black hole around here. I couldn't find anyone within my pickup truck hauling distance that sold any of those.
End of rant.
Because I only have room for two ton I have to buy my third ton right around this time of year. Wasn't a problem last year. Lowe's had plenty of Green Team's left. This year however....Lowe's is out of Green Teams so I was left scrambling yesterday looking for a decent pellet. Doesn't sound like a big deal, but what yesterday made me realize was that in this area (Southern NH) we seem to be in a black hole of low end pellets and very uneducated sales people. I called just about everyone around here that sold pellets and most of them didn't even know what kind they were. Not to mention they seemed annoyed that I was even asking. The best one had to be the company that I was told (on this forum) sold Okanagans. I called them this morning and the conversation went like this:
Me: Hello...do you still sell pellets?
Her: yup
Me: What kind do you carry?
Her: You mean who makes them?
Me: yes
Her: HEY BILL
WHAT KIND OF PELLETS WE GOT?.....YEAH!! WHO MAKES THEM?Her: They're Okanawas
Me: you mean Okanagans?
Her: OKANAWAS
sir..End of conversation....
Now unless Toyota has decided it's better to sell wood pellets rather than cars that can't stop....I'd say she was mistaken..
I hate to make a big deal about this, but I'm really hoping someday manufacturers can teach their dealers/distributors more about pellets so they can at least sound intelligent and don't treat the consumer like he or she is asking a lot of prying questions for no reason.
The happy ending to this story is I finally went to pelletsales.com which is only a couple of miles from me and the nice people down there gave me a few of bags to try out. I'll most likely buy a ton of something from them tomorrow. I didn't go there in the first place because I was really hoping to get some Okie's or Barefoots or Hamer's or some like that, but like I said....we seem to be in a black hole around here. I couldn't find anyone within my pickup truck hauling distance that sold any of those.
End of rant.
