MiamiCuse wrote:
"Toller" wrote in message
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"Just Joe" not given @bogus.com wrote in message
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Call the guy back and offer to buy 50-100 from him at say half of current
retail. If he has had them since 2004 he needs to sell them worse than
you need to buy them. Think about it. What is he going to do with them?
He does not have enough to roof an entire house and can not get more.
Then again if you can afford to live in a house whose roof alone cost 40
grand why are you worried about this? Pay the man what he wants to fix
it.

That is bad advice.
The OP needs those tiles. The roofer merely wants to get rid of them. If
he doesn't sell them to the OP he can sell them to someone else
eventually. The roofer has the OP over a barrel; to antagonize him is a
serious mistake.

But you are right about the roof costing 40 grand and the trivial cost for
the tiles.
Just buy the tiles for a reasonable price and find a creative way to store
them; staining another color is bizarre.


How do I know what a reasonable price is? He told me it's taking room in
his ware house and he wants to get rid of them.

I wonder if he is open to sharing with me name/number of other houses he did
his roofing job on with same tiles so I can call them and put together a
package deal...

What do new of the same type sell for? What did these cost when new?
What is the trouble of trying to find something to match or cobble up a
"not-too-bad" contrasting color worth to you? Just by the pallet, and
put an ad on Craig's list or something if you don't want to keep the rest...

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