by MickinOz » Thu Jan 02, 2020 4:14 pm
This is the thing:
The guy is offering 200 sq ft of plywood in a single piece, plus another 140 sq ft in a single piece at $750 Aus.
That's $528 US. For the sort of ply you can roll into a cylinder.
Here in Oz it is not an exorbitant or grossly inflated price at all. It is in fact, rather cheap. I would wager that, unless he's been sitting on it for 30 years, he's making a loss.
I once corresponded with a bloke who paid $800 for 3 sheets of 10 x 5. Admittedly it was thicker, but it was plain plywood, not the material actually engineered to bend.
We are a country of 24.6 million people. My state alone is 40% bigger area than Texas, but only has 6% of the population of Texas. There are no economies of scale, such as you may enjoy wherever it is you live. Since you don't list it I don't know for sure, though your username suggests maybe Connecticut?
To top it off, due to the environment we build in, plywood is seldom used for roofing substrates or cladding on houses here, so again there is no economy of scale.
Hence my confusion at your comment.
Anyway, I merely posted to share my astonishment that you once could actually get ply that wide and that long, so I'll leave it there.
