Great Frank, now if you could just haul that stuff a little farther South I'd be set. Nothing around here but OC Pink at a local mom & pops. No more Blue at the local Lowes. :x

 

This is not a good sign. Not only does it seem strange to have a lower price (considering their sales would have gone down, not up) but they didn't price it really low. Some stores were willing to blow it out for $10 while I think the lowest our's went was $26. Evil-Tunes lives local here and he checked the Mom and Pop store we have and they sell it for $50! So, at $26, we had to stock up. We went to several Lowes and bought all we could. I think we had a coupon and got a discount on a couple of the beat up bundles, but still it wasn't $10

Do you have any other Lowes nearby? We have 6 which are within reason. Some of those stores had a different price. When we got home, we called Lowes and they gave us a credit right over the phone and then mailed us the receipt. You can't beat that kind of service.

 

It would be great to find a supplier that would ship it AT a reasonable cost. I have 2 Lowes within travel distance but neither has any. The OC Pink is not that bad but I prefer the Dow.

 

You guyz do know that Lowes will price match, right? If you tell one Lowes that the other right down the street is selling a product at a lower price, they will match it. Actually, we ran into that and called Lowes when we got home. They refunded our money over the phone and mailed us a receipt! That is some serious customer service from a large corportion. You don't see that much anymore.

 

I think this stuff is being cleared completely from Lowes inventory, at least here on the west coast. It took some digging around to find some, and I've managed to score a couple bundles so far for hoarding. One bundle was pristine but the other was really beat up on the floor, probably the outer 3 sheets damaged to scrap usage only. Of course they'll freely give discounts for the damaged stuff.

I still have a bundle of the classic double skin stuff and I'm holding onto that for special projects. I've become a bit of a depron snob because I love the rigidity, straightness and paintable qualities of it, but there is no sense in using it for CNC tests/proofs.

I just wish there were more quality controls on the depron from the manufacturer. I got two bundles for a CNC run (I don't have a phlat printer yet-this was at a shop I was borrowing) a while back and it came to 6.78 mil thickness. I loved that it was thicker and all but I had all these slots and laser ply parts that were designed around the proper 6mm thickness that had to be redone to fit and it was quite a hassle having to re-path everything so that it would cut through the material all the way. Probably wasted 10 sheets before we realized there was a problem. Neil at RCFoam was quite accommodating and was sure to give a nice discount on my next two orders. Great customer service!