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Lobster wrote:
Is it all the same quality, though? Last time I looked at this size in
Wicks it was all about as straight as the average politician...

As with most of the sheds, the problem is that they take in a delivery
of (say) 100 lengths of CLS, but (say) 10% are banana-shaped. So nobody
buys them. When there are only (say) 25 lengths left, they get another
100 delivered, again with 10% knackered. These add to the 10 already
there, so we now have 20 unusable lengths. Next time there's a
delivery, we'll end up with 30 rubbish lengths left on display, etc etc
- which means that unless someone buys bent stuff, the stock levels
won't go down low enough to trigger a new delivery.

Until someone with enough nous goes and clears out the unsellable
rubbish and starts again...

In my case I wanted that size of CLS but didn't need the complete lengths,
as it were, so after a bit of negotiation got what I needed but only
actually paid for the straight parts of the timber. So did my bit for
clearing out the dross. IIRC, they were approx 3 metre lengths with the
end couple of feet only bent, and I got three for the price of one, so
quite a good deal.

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