We hope everyone is happy, healthy and warm.
Let’s begin with the good news. It appears as though we’ve finally turned the corner on winter. These random warmer days mixed in with bitter cold and blustery nights reminds us that Spring is just around the corner. This time of year is commonly known in Eastern Pennsylvania as Pothole Season. And that typically means that it’s time for our Annual Wood Pellet Spring Buy Spring Sale.
It doesn’t make much sense to call it a sale if there isn’t a discount. The fact of the matter is that prices are quickly rising on everything that we use in our daily lives. We’re seeing record highs on wheat, corn, crude oil, natural gas… Our grocery bills are expected to jump more than they already have due to the high wheat and corn prices. Crude oil hit $130 / barrel this week! We’re seeing local heating oil prices jump to over $5 per gallon. That’s a 300% increase in the past 2 years. In the Spring of 2020 it cost $415 to fill our oil tank. It now costs over $1,300 to fill that same tank. With gas prices over $4 and Diesel pushing $5 per gallon, the cost of freight is increasing daily as well. Almost every product sold in this country at some point in it’s journey is moved by trucks. So trucking / freight costs won’t help the already increasing prices of everything we buy.
What to Expect
So enough of the doom and gloom. Here’s where we are. The inventory that we currently have in stock as of this post are at the lowest prices that we’re going to have this upcoming season. The inventory that we are receiving for the Spring Buy is quite a bit higher than our current prices. Before we could buy enough inventory for our Spring Buy, mill and freight prices jumped again. So once we sell out of each pellet brand at the initial Spring Buy prices, we should have more product coming but at higher prices. Wood Pellet fuel and Coal prices will continue increasing straight through the upcoming heating season. It is very likely that we will sell out of a few brands before the Wood Pellet Spring Buy ends.
We will have all of our popular pellet fuel brands available for our Spring Buy which begins this upcoming Monday, March 14th and ends Monday, March 28th. Most of our brands will be available for pickup (if needed) when the sale begins, or shortly there after. Tractor trailer loads have already began to arrive. And they will continue rolling in throughout the next few weeks.
The positive take away from this is that our Spring Buy customers never have to worry about pellet fuel shortages. Nor do they have to endure the six to eight week delivery time frame as do the customers that order just as the weather gets cold. Most Spring customers aren’t even aware that Hamers have been out of stock since early December, or that Barefoot Easy Lift haven’t been available since October. We also only received one single load of Supreme Douglas Fir during the heating season.
All of our fuel brands will be available in our Spring Buy. We store them indoors for free. And you choose your preferred delivery month (July through February). Pickup customers have until March 11th, 2023 to pickup up their order in full. It doesn’t get much more stress free than that.
Coal Customers
We wish we had better news. On the bright side, we will continue to carry Blaschak bagged coal in Rice, Nut and Pea sizes. On the gloomy side, pricing is nowhere near where it was last Spring. And it will continue to rise like everything else. Rice coal is available for immediate pickup (if needed). Nut and Pea will be arriving in the next few weeks.
Important Updates
Envi Blocks / Energy Logs
Unfortunately, we will not be carrying any compressed firewood moving forward. This includes Envi Blocks, Sunfire Blocks and Energy Logs. We apologize to our customers that rely on these fuel sources. Please use the links below to find an alternative dealer in your area.
Barefoot Sunfire Blocks and Envi Blocks – Dealer Locator
Bio Diversity Blocks – Envi Blocks – Dealer Locator
DELIVERY AREAS
To our customers outside of our regular areas of Bucks, Montgomery, Lehigh, Northampton, Pa. and Hunterdon County, NJ.
In an effort to better serve our local customer base, we had to make the difficult decision to limit the extent of our delivery areas. We will no longer be able to deliver to Philadelphia, Glenmoore, Coatesville, Broomall, Glen Mills, Media and Chester Springs. If you don’t have an option for delivery when placing an order on our website, then unfortunately we can no longer offer delivery to your area.
Also some areas will only have the option for delivery in July. Included in the July Only delivery areas are Chester and Delaware County customers that we’ve delivered to in the past including West Chester, Wayne, Berwyn, Paoli, Malvern, Newtown Square, Exton and Downingtown. We apologize to all of our loyal customers in these areas. We wish we could continue to better serve you, but we just don’t have the capability to do so at this time.
GARAGE DELIVERY
Any delivery where our driver places your order inside your garage with a pallet jack or pushes it in with the forklift will be charged as a garage delivery. Customers that would like their order placed inside their garage should select garage delivery at checkout. Our drivers are very much appreciative of tips, but they do not handle payments for delivery services. Thank you for your understanding.
As always, we wish our customers and their families the very best. It’s been a wild few years, and we appreciate your continued support. If you ever have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us. – Heather & Joe
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