From: none@none.com99   
      
   Had a customer call me asking for a source for some aluminum to make   
   some mold cooling plates.  I knew he couldn't buy it for the same price   
   I do even from my vendors, and I told him who my vendors are.  Coast and   
   Midwest.  With a very strong preference for Coast personally, but   
   Midwest ships... when ever they are darned good and ready anyway.   
      
   I told him I would just throw a piece of bar on the saw and cut some for   
   him if he wanted.  At a fair markup of course.  I know I can sell the   
   aluminum I stock WAY less than any of the online vendors and insultingly   
   less than local metal yards and still make a good profit because I buy   
   multiple 12' pieces at a time.  From a few hundred pounds to several   
   hundred pounds post of the time.   
      
   He told me what we wanted and I did the math several times, and I was   
   only paying a couple dollars less per piece than he found online.  It   
   didn't make sense.  I buy hundreds of pounds of 12 foot bars.  Well, I   
   agreed to sell him what he needed in a flat rate box, match the price,   
   and sent him an invoice.  Then I realized I was doing calculations based   
   on price per foot, and he wanted 4 inch long pieces (6 x 4 cut from 6   
   inch wide stock).  Oops.  LOL.  I called him and said "DON'T PAY THAT   
   INVOICE."  Now we are both much happier.   
      
   He paid the new invoice before I finished typing this post.   
      
      
   --   
   Bob La Londe   
   CNC Molds N Stuff   
      
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