Commodity shortages

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Are garage doors a commodity now? Freaking one place anywhere close with any and they know it. Not paying their ransom would delay my house 2 months so I'd be paying no matter what.
 
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utvolpj said:
Are garage doors a commodity now? Freaking one place anywhere close with any and they know it. Not paying their ransom would delay my house 2 months so I'd be paying no matter what.
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Huh? Can't find garage doors? Paint and put up plywood until supply catches up.
 
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hog88 said:
Huh? Can't find garage doors? Paint and put up plywood until supply catches up.
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There is one shop that has them and they're charging a premium. Supply won't catch up until January so we either pay it or eat a couple months of interest payments. Either way I'm out some cash. Doubtful we could close with a boarded up garage
 
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DynaLo said:
Simple answer: our supply/transportation cycle system is broken.

Ships can’t dock and offload themselves and that offloaded cargo can’t transport itself to its destinations thereby freeing up more cargo offload space on the docks. Rinse-repeat.
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I drive by the port of Norfolk everyday going to work. The shipping containers are piling up and the same train has been sitting for a week with the same shipping containers, in the same spot. It hasn’t moved or been loaded. I find the commodities are being brought in but not loaded and shipped. The railways aren’t handicapped for employees and neither are the docks. Highly valued jobs that don’t have recidivism.
 
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utvolpj said:
There is one shop that has them and they're charging a premium. Supply won't catch up until January so we either pay it or eat a couple months of interest payments. Either way I'm out some cash. Doubtful we could close with a boarded up garage
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Here they’re issuing COs with boarded up windows because of lack of supply.
 
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NurseGoodVol said:
I drive by the port of Norfolk everyday going to work. The shipping containers are piling up and the same train has been sitting for a week with the same shipping containers, in the same spot. It hasn’t moved or been loaded. I find the commodities are being brought in but not loaded and shipped. The railways aren’t handicapped for employees and neither are the docks. Highly valued jobs that don’t have recidivism.
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The railroads are moving all that oil that the keystone was supposed to move. This winter they catch up on all the stock so we can freeze.
The need to set the proper bar so when full blown socialism is in place we have the proper perspective.
 
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NurseGoodVol said:
I’m stuck looking at those lapels…jiminy!
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Isn't fashion wonderful! I've always seen it as a means to instant obsolescence to keep selling stuff that didn't need replacing. I always made it a point to buy non trendy suits and coats in traditional colors and wear them regardless of what some clown decides the lapels should be in any given year. I'd love it if the fashion industry crashes and burns, and society evolves to reason, but I don't expect it. The current trend in mens clothing toward stuff that appears designed for someone several sizes smaller and half the diameter is baffling - looks like hand me ups from little brother.
 
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Wireless1 said:
The railroads are moving all that oil that the keystone was supposed to move. This winter they catch up on all the stock so we can freeze.
The need to set the proper bar so when full blown socialism is in place we have the proper perspective.
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Gotta have those 5 year plans, but that's hard to do when the leadership is both bipolar and clueless.
 
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utvolpj said:
I've heard of a couple closing missing an appliance (our oven gets delivered Friday and was ordered in June) but not the garage doors. It's going to happen though
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It took over three weeks to get a new dishwasher when the old one died. That's very worrisome when you consider it could have been a refrigerator or freezer.
 
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hog88 said:
You know it's costing more for them to replenish stock don't you? Add that to labor costs going up and those 1st and second quarter profits are being stripped away.
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I'm still wondering who owns all the stuff sitting on ships and in ports waiting to be moved. Somebody has a lot of money invested and no way to get it back any time soon.
 
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utvolpj said:
I've heard of a couple closing missing an appliance (our oven gets delivered Friday and was ordered in June) but not the garage doors. It's going to happen though
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I watch a youtube channel of a guy that builds garages and he commented recently that garage doors have gone up by 300-400% where he lives. They must have moved manufacturing of those to China too, and all the new supply is rusting on a container somewhere.
 
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VolStrom said:
I watch a youtube channel of a guy that builds garages and he commented recently that garage doors have gone up by 300-400% where he lives. They must have moved manufacturing of those to China too, and all the new supply is rusting on a container somewhere.
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2 weeks.
 
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VolStrom said:
I watch a youtube channel of a guy that builds garages and he commented recently that garage doors have gone up by 300-400% where he lives. They must have moved manufacturing of those to China too, and all the new supply is rusting on a container somewhere.
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Builder said cost doubled and we're paying a 50% premium to the supplier for getting one they have in stock. But if we wait we end up paying that in extra rent and loan payments so it's a wash
 
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utvolpj said:
Builder said cost doubled and we're paying a 50% premium to the supplier for getting one they have in stock. But if we wait we end up paying that in extra rent and loan payments so it's a wash
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You sure picked a bad time to build a house, that's for sure. What is to come as far as prices though is anyone's guess.
 
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