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- Joined
- Jan 4, 2014
- Location
- Portland, OR
Just a rant about material pricing.
I got a quote in yesterday from my aluminum supplier. The guy I normally talk to was on vacation, and a different sales person had bumped prices up on some material over 20% from a previous quote. Had to call in an talk them down in price.
Then today, I call up a plastics supplier I've never worked with and got a price for some HDPE sheet at $90 each. When I called them back up to place the order (literally less than 5 minutes), that salesman is on break. The next guy quotes $110.
What gives!? It seems like they have a really good handle on incoming costs, cut fees, etc. It would be pretty simple to have a "standard" markup that they apply across the board. It feels like such a huge waste of time to play these sales games, but we are literally talking about thousands of dollars a month in potential savings.
I got a quote in yesterday from my aluminum supplier. The guy I normally talk to was on vacation, and a different sales person had bumped prices up on some material over 20% from a previous quote. Had to call in an talk them down in price.
Then today, I call up a plastics supplier I've never worked with and got a price for some HDPE sheet at $90 each. When I called them back up to place the order (literally less than 5 minutes), that salesman is on break. The next guy quotes $110.
What gives!? It seems like they have a really good handle on incoming costs, cut fees, etc. It would be pretty simple to have a "standard" markup that they apply across the board. It feels like such a huge waste of time to play these sales games, but we are literally talking about thousands of dollars a month in potential savings.