"Backyard Renegade" wrote in message
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"danny" wrote in message
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Been looking hard for best epoxy resin prices UK.
How come we in the UK. pay far more for our materials than the
Americans, I
mean big differences.
And I have noticed the crude way suppliers try to pull the wool over our
eyes by all offering different versions like one VAT included, VAT.
excluded, free carriage this week on orders over,
"Our prices are the best you will find", or "ours is the best" well when
you
see this forget it, their usually top price,
Then there is the various items one needs like reinforcing, if resin is
a
little cheaper the reinforcing are usually top wack, I have come to the
conclusion that it is done to fog up the reality.
It is not practical usually to order from many suppliers because one
loses
on the carriage rates.
Anyhow back to the fact we in the UK. pay more than twice as much for
epoxy
plus VAT. but I know nothing of American tax system.

This has been addressed several times but I think it comes to supply
and demand. How much do you think a supplier on a relatively small
Island buys at a time compared to a distributor in say NYC or Florida?
Our suppliers have a much larger customer base, in a country that
still encourages home builders
Here in the US sales taxs runs different from State to State but
figure 6% for average. Shipping on 5 gallons might be $30... divided
by 5 is $6 per gallon. With tax and shipping you can get 5 gallons for
about 50 bucks a gallon on the internet all day long shipped land,
7-10 days.
Scotty
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You just proved my point Scotty, I have yet to see a price lower than $50 a
gallon plus 17% vat.
Plus carriage which is a minimum $10 per gallon.
Cheers.