westernrvparkowner wrote:
So five dollars is "fair" and eight dollars is not. This great pronouncement is based on what? Your extensive experience packaging firewood in the area in question? You deep experience in the cost of buying firewood in that area? Or maybe you just pulled that number out of the air because that is what a "bundle" (a very scientific unit of measurement) happened to cost when you bought some. Like most any product, there is much more to a bundle of firewood than the raw cost of the materials. We don't know how it is bundled. We don't know where it is shipped from. We don't know any special circumstances that might have added costs to the bundle of firewood. Somehow I seriously doubt that the park is question is vacant, no customers at all, and that any vacancies they may have are traced directly to overpriced firewood. But by all means keep thinking that all those laws regarding moving firewood are because some random campground got the entire states to enact laws to give them a monopoly so they can make an additional $3.00 a bundle on firewood.
Wow, Easy there. Why the hostile response for me thinking $8 is too much. I don't need to justify my thought on price to anyone.
If you must know where I got the numbers that I based my opinion on it is this:
For one thing, I grew up cutting and splitting wood to heat our house by the cord.
I've been going to campgrounds all my life. Before the ban in the last few years, typical prices at the campgrounds I attended averaged about $5.00
Some $5.50 and some were even around $3.75-$4.00 if you bought, say three or more bundles.
My issue with the prices in some of the upstate parks is that the prices per bundle magically went up as soon as the ban was in place or they started enforcing the ban.
A local campground that we love charges somewhere in the $5 range but also will drop a 10 cubic foot lawn tractor trailer load to your site and I think the price is $20-25. It's equal to at least 6 bundles if not more
I bring my own there and they know I do. Because it's within 30 miles, they don't care. Although I've never seen them enforce the ban with people from out of state either.
Aside from that, I can order wood delivered by the cord for peanuts compared to the $8 a bundle price. If someone wants to give me $8 a bundle to take 6 pieces of wood, wrap some stretch wrap around it, and staple a handle to it, I could make good money even buying the wood by the cord first.
