I wondering what you are paying for basic 3/4" prefinished maple/birch plywood-say a C-1 grade.
Also what is current price for 3/4" regular mdf.

I just paid $72 a sheet for domestic prefinished 1 sided.
Week before I got units of import prefinished for $48.
Lumberyard this morning had regular MDF for $38. NOT double refined

Similar to Hen Bob here. We just bought 3/4" PF1 Domestic Maple, $74 and change in the >10 to full unit column. Straight 3/4 MDF (spoil board material) is around $34+. Nuts.

One of my plywood distributors has no mdf or veneer core. Another is about $125 for 3/4 prefinished

Your in NJ? not for sure but Wurth Baer? Atlantic?

Crap just hit the fan here.

I use a 3/4" A1 two face Birch plywood for carcass parts. All I could get the other day was 20 sheets. $170.20/sheet

3/4 RSWO, MDF core, $105.16, (which is about what I'd expect)

1/4 RSWO, MDF core, $70.20 (also about where it probably should be)

3/4 Raw MDF, "Premium" I think this actually was a the triple refined stuff, $45.72

4/4 S2S Superior Beech, $3.60 bd/ft

4/4 S2S FAS/SEL Soft Maple, $4.10 bd/ft

Basically 1000 bd/ft of hardwood, and less than 50 sheets came off that truck. $9153. jeepers....

It wasn't that long ago, I was paying $52/sheet for that Birch Plywood. Six years ago maybe? Luckily the quality keeps going down as well. Almost $5k more per unit. Somebody is getting their ass reamed tomorrow.

Wow... not commenting on price but A1 for boxes? Gadzukes.

The Mercedes crowd wants nothing less.

I should check Wurth and Atlantic. I usually buy from Fess and Russell but occasionally buy from these others. Doesn't hurt to ask.

Mild ass chewing worked. Turns out somebody F'd up, and that is not what that panel should've cost. It was supposed to be $105. Which is still leaves me feel like I dropped the soap in county, but that's a heck of a lot more reasonable than $170.

I started the conversation as "I'm angry, and need somebody to talk to." Made me chuckle, and lightened the mood a bit.

Also makes me wonder how often I should be checking what they are actually charging me for things, because screw ups do happen. In both directions. Over charging, and under charging.

Could be too, that they were just trying to see what I'd put up with, or whether or not I was paying attention.

That seems like a heavy push for a test-the-waters at nearly 70 a sheet. Sounds like somebody didnt apply a discount from list price or something. I just pulled up 3/4" A-1 domestic unit quantities and we are at 108.85

I often check prices across vendors, all sales people will push as far as they can till called out. They are in the business of making money after all...

Sure, we're all in the business of making money. Difference between a screw up and being dishonorable is pretty huge.

Agreed , I would have been fired up too at $170 a sheet

Why isn't solid wood on the same price rocket trajectory? I just paid $5.25 for best quality Sapele random widths and lengths lumber. This makes me think I had better stock up.

I don't use sheet goods, no cabinets.

This foolishness, to this point at least, has been greatly fixated on the construction market and commodity goods where billions can be made off a few percent jump in Helmans mayo, Heinz ketchup, and Jiff. As it is always, the base consumer fund the kings. This mess due to its lack of predictability has been a following-suit situation where those who would have piled on early are now scrambling and trying to piling on at the tail end in hopes to get their little piece. The yachts have already been fueled up, funded, and staffed, during the past year. They are fully stocked with the finest sundries and provisions, and are spooling up leaving the docks. We are in the stages where all the late comers try to ramp up pricing behind the curve and will likely get sunk in their attempt because... well... "the ships have sailed".

Can't get Blum Tandems so I tried to order Grass Dynapro from Hafele. They said they are on backorder until September 14.
Bad times ahead for sure.

The prices are truly hard to comprehend on some items and so is the shortage on other items.
I agree on the scary times ahead, as soon as they quit printing money, we are headed for a crash similar to the 30’s.
Anyways enough doom and gloom, time to get back to work.

Went to home depot this weekend. Funny how there was no lumber in the store until the price got right, $20 for a 2x6 (unbelievable) but when the price got right the racks were full of lumber. It is the same with our panel products as soon as they get the price where they want it there will no longer be a shortage, there will be plenty to be had. Oh yes the price will go down but no where where it was. I talked to friend whose family has land in south Georgia and he wanted to know how come lumber went up 400% and when he sold the timber off his land he got the price he got 2-3 years ago. He wanted to know just who is making the MONEY!

Part of this is the government printing money, stimulus payments, PPP, unemployemnet, etc(just who is paying for all the vaccines?) When the government inserts a bunch of money into the economy that does not come from anywhere it increases the money supply and dilutes the value of the currency. That is one reason everything has increased in cost. The other reason is pure greed. How do I make my company increase profits? Make more product? Make my product more efficently? No it is a lot easier to just figure out how to raise the price of the product without effecting demand.

When I was a teenager my parents wanted home by 11. I wanted to stay out to 12. I started coming home at 1;30-2:00 . Sure my parents were mad and upset for a while, and thigs got difficult, but when I started coming home at 12 (and I told them that I would from now on) they were as happy as can be, all was forgiven. We got along great and I got what I wanted. Just like lumber and panel prices.

Ok another example, remember when diesel went to $5 a gallon? All the suppliers added a fuel surcharge. I could understand that, but when it went back down to $2.25 a gallon they did not remove the fuel surcharge did they? I eve asked one of my salesman that I thought I should get a fuel credit because the price was so low! That went over well.