<div dir="ltr">Hi Jim,<div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, it's a bit like gasoline (fast to raise prices, but slow to lower them).  From my experience, the lumberyard raises prices when they see their ordering costs increase (like the gas station raising prices between refills, not just when they get a new tanker).  I was a derivatives trader and my old colleagues are calling this a crazy increase in lumber prices that they do not expect to stay this way through the winter.  I would watch the price and then call around as you see it coming down.  You can watch the lumber prices here: (look at the front contract (Sep now).  </div><div><a href="https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/agricultural/lumber-and-pulp/random-length-lumber.html">https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/agricultural/lumber-and-pulp/random-length-lumber.html</a>  <br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Ian</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 2:47 PM Jim Franklin <<a href="mailto:jamesf@groupwbench.org">jamesf@groupwbench.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Treated decking lumber has gone up another 50% in the past few weeks. Does retail pricing follow the cost of the inventory when it was purchased, or is it based on the cost of inventory if it were purchased today? If I wait until January when (theoretically) fewer people are building decks and teh wholesale price (theoretically) comes down, will my cost be based on the January wholesale price, or on the September wholesale price? <br>
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I have been priced out of finishing my deck so I'm spending my time thinking instead of building. <br>
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jim<br>
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