This is about the shortage of hobbyist material supplies for your hobby. Not this boards hobby.
Its more about the high cost of raw material for home projects and it does relate to any small and medium business that need materials for their business. Its about where to get cheaper sources of quality products, from good sources. Bigger cities might have some price fluctuations .
Websites that don't name prices and ask for you to email, I find too time consuming. I would look for a price range (yes some products prices vary), but for websites that ask for emails, I find don't have any products on hand and have to order from another source. I 'd like to cut out the middle man, therefore decreasing price and increasing how far my money goes.
Example Aluminum.
If I am looking for extruded Aluminum bar (to use in a woodworking jig), the Aluminum is mined in Canada, sold to the USA company, melted into ingot or smaller blocks. Sold to a secondary Aluminum manufacture who makes the Extruded Aluminum bar. Which sold to a store in the states. This store sales to Amazon or a retail store. On Amazon the extruded Aluminum bar is sold at same price as the retail store. (The ideal of this is to make sure there are still retail stores in business). So some Amazon business, persons buys up all the Aluminum bars as they come on to Amazon, and resales at 50% higher. You always see this as one advertising space (has no price, or msg saying all sold out). There is always a second advertising space with the same aluminum bar, but at a higher price.
I would so like for Amazon to crack down on this price gouging/speculation.
If the product comes from the US, it is usually 2X the amount (import fee and price hike) and then Cdn taxes. Even US companies that have a Cdn outlet, have outrageous prices. Rocklear, Woodpeckers, etc.
The high cost of raw material prohibits manufacturing in Canadian, unless you can supply raw materials at a cheaper price. 30-40% of all mined Aluminum should be manufactured here in Canada and sold with min middlemen/companies.
So if you know decent places to get Wood materials- hard woods and softwoods
And metal materials like, extruded aluminum, metal- steel and aluminum; talk away.
Its more about the high cost of raw material for home projects and it does relate to any small and medium business that need materials for their business. Its about where to get cheaper sources of quality products, from good sources. Bigger cities might have some price fluctuations .
Websites that don't name prices and ask for you to email, I find too time consuming. I would look for a price range (yes some products prices vary), but for websites that ask for emails, I find don't have any products on hand and have to order from another source. I 'd like to cut out the middle man, therefore decreasing price and increasing how far my money goes.
Example Aluminum.
If I am looking for extruded Aluminum bar (to use in a woodworking jig), the Aluminum is mined in Canada, sold to the USA company, melted into ingot or smaller blocks. Sold to a secondary Aluminum manufacture who makes the Extruded Aluminum bar. Which sold to a store in the states. This store sales to Amazon or a retail store. On Amazon the extruded Aluminum bar is sold at same price as the retail store. (The ideal of this is to make sure there are still retail stores in business). So some Amazon business, persons buys up all the Aluminum bars as they come on to Amazon, and resales at 50% higher. You always see this as one advertising space (has no price, or msg saying all sold out). There is always a second advertising space with the same aluminum bar, but at a higher price.
I would so like for Amazon to crack down on this price gouging/speculation.
If the product comes from the US, it is usually 2X the amount (import fee and price hike) and then Cdn taxes. Even US companies that have a Cdn outlet, have outrageous prices. Rocklear, Woodpeckers, etc.
The high cost of raw material prohibits manufacturing in Canadian, unless you can supply raw materials at a cheaper price. 30-40% of all mined Aluminum should be manufactured here in Canada and sold with min middlemen/companies.
So if you know decent places to get Wood materials- hard woods and softwoods
And metal materials like, extruded aluminum, metal- steel and aluminum; talk away.
