This is one of the best Hijacked Threads Ever , and the Beauty is the OP is all in , Skeeter get's it let's have some fun.
Come on Doug, lighten up. Yes is was just curiosity on my part. Daff just got done telling us there is a fort knox of pellets over at Upton, and so I'm interested to know if they are all one brand or multiple brands. With home heating oil prices at record lows, and strong hints of a warmer than usual winter, I'm trying to do a bit of early analysis on the impact to pellet sales around here - and every detail counts. Arguably too soon to tell, since neither other nature nor the oil industry has shown us their full hand yet, but it could be concluded that the mountain of pellets over at Upton is an early sign of declining sales. If those pellets are all one brand, then it's a slight different story than if it were many brands sitting there in mass quantities.
please use the proper terminology....these things look like the cats azz......do yo have a cat? ya might wanna check it.
How peculiar. Those are not blonde, and they look nothing like the platinums I've seen, including the ones currently in my stash. Yours look more like golds than platinums, I don't get it.
That's not good Jay she's coming home with a very pizzed off attitude And it's not your fault ,but some how it will be
What you see at Upton is just about all Okanagan...all three brands and the vast majority of it is either prepaid for or committed, so there is no huge pile of unsold pellets. There are still mills that are having fibre issues, Energex, Cubex and others. NEWP has already told some dealers they will not be able to fill their 3rd and maybe even thier 4th quarter needs, and from what I can tell, most dealers pellet sales are up over this time last year, so we haven't seen much if any sales cut back because of heating oil prices. The pellet stove sales have been growing at about a steady pace of roughly 8% for the last few years, with very little new pellets coming into the market, so more people chasing the same amount of pellets makes for very steady sales. In our case our business is up over triple digits against this time last year, but we have also made much more product available to the market as well, which I have stated before. It is still my belief that when someone spends $3000-6000 on a stove they are going to use it. If I have heard it once I have heard it 1000's of times, that pretty much anyone who burns with pellets simply likes the heat much better than heating with oil. The savings up to this point has been a bonus. Most people will budget a certain amount of dollars each month or each year for heating costs and pellets have been mostly level to maybe slightly more over last year, so for many, they just simply ordered what they did last year or maybe stepped up to something considered better without hurting their budget too much. There are certainly those that will pull out the calculator and feel that heating oil might be a savings, but they in my opinion are a pretty small group. Maybe for the shoulder season you might see more oil use, time will tell, but for the dead of winter, I still think pellets will hold their own, regardless of heating oil costs. I might be wrong, as I said time will tell. Just read yesterday that the Old Farmer's Almanac thinks this winter in the Northeast will be bitter cold with maybe just a tad less snow...If that is true....our sales will be just fine, but by then either you have pellets to sell and can service your dealers or you miss sales and then they will buy whatever they can get their hands on.... We want that to be one or all of our brands like we were able to supply last winter. If we are wrong...we might have a few extra pallets of pellets to sell come spring....if not, like last winter, we will probably be one of the few that can still supply when others are out. As I have mentioned as well before....color of a pellet has nothing to do how good or bad it will burn....you have to burn them to find out. Just because the pellets are not as blonde as what you think they should be, (could be the lighting), don't think for a minute we are supplying any pellet that won't meet our high standards if it comes in an Okanagan bag. Personally, I thought that was a pretty good picture of the Platinum pellets. Nice sheen to them, decent length, didn't seem very dusty and very few "kibbles and bits"...thought they looked good.
