Newest CT craigslist thing?

[edge-of-the-woods]

I just saw a bunch of recent ads for firewood, with INSANE prices. $150, $160 for firewood that is seasoned, split, and delivered?! Woohoo, yeah! Sign me up!

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The only hitch is that when you open the ad, you see that's the price they're asking for a half-cord

Womp womp.

 

[Oldman47]

So $300 a cord is a good price?

 

[edge-of-the-woods]

Sorry, no! At least I don't think so. I'd pay $250 maybe, for delivered and honestly seasoned. Three hundred feels high. I think the sellers know that, and so they're only listing the half-cord price to get people to click on it. I wouldn't look twice at an ad for $300/cord.

 

[Jay106n]

Yeah, I've been seeing that a lot as well.

 

[mike van]

Heating oil is well under 1.50 / gal - No bottom in sight either - Sellers like in those ads need some kind of gimmick - I'd have my doubts about how "seasoned" that 300.00 wood is.

 

[edge-of-the-woods]

Exactly. They probably split it yesterday, and then just sprinkled some paprika over it

 

[gregbesia]

For $300 a cord , I wonder if one would be better off just buying bio bricks or the like ?

 

[Applesister]

I cant begrudge the little guy for jumping on some bandwagon, when I look at what the oil pricing is doing, I cant help but wonder if all this time of 4.60 a gallon from the big oil companies wasnt market control.
Like they are flooding the market now, meaning it was a strategy decision not supply and demand.
And yes, been reading too much JFK conspiracy crap.

 

[Oldman47]

I cant begrudge the little guy for jumping on some bandwagon, when I look at what the oil pricing is doing, I cant help but wonder if all this time of 4.60 a gallon from the big oil companies wasnt market control.
Like they are flooding the market now, meaning it was a strategy decision not supply and demand.
And yes, been reading too much JFK conspiracy crap.

Have you ever heard of fracking? Oil supplies went through the roof with that and nobody is willing to lose market share by cutting back so the price just keeps dropping. WTI crude was at about $110 a couple of years back and is now at about $30 a barrel. It takes a little while to work its way through the supply pipeline but has arrived at the wholesale heating oil market already. A couple of days back wholesale heating oil was at $1.09. I have no idea today's price. The only conspiracy I see is that OPEC is trying to hold onto market share by refusing to cut sales to prop up the price.