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Copper price is raising high #263237 05/19/06 11:17 AM
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cableguy714 Member Joined: May 2005 Posts: 5	How come the copper price is crazy right now? The best deal I saw is $66 per 1000 FT for Cat5e Cable on cyberxlink.com. Any one can tell me other places has the better price than that?Thank you.

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Re: Copper price is raising high #263238 05/19/06 12:43 PM
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 15,397 Likes: 18 Fayetteville, NC EV607797 Moderator-Vertical, Vodavi, 1A2, Outside Wire
EV607797 Moderator-Vertical, Vodavi, 1A2, Outside Wire Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 15,397 Likes: 18 Fayetteville, NC	CableGuy714: You need to provide a complete profile before we can go into detail with you on this. In the meantime, I will share a few comments: Home Depot sent me a commercial purchaser flyer today advertising a similar price for C5e riser-rated (PVC, type CMR). The price you have seen MUST be for PVC, as in non-plenum cable becuase the plenum-rated stuff is approaching three times that on a good day. Plenum-rated (CMP) is pretty much all that can legally be used in most office buildings, so you should forget about the $66.00 stuff. Apparently, there is a severe copper shortage, coupled with the increase in petroleum costs (a major component in the manufacture of plastics), it's all going up. We have actually doccumented a 50% increase in cable cost over the past nine months. It's reached the point where it's not wise to honor price quotes on jobs for more than a week, since I have seen three dramatic increases in one month. We had to change our policies accordingly. Ed Vaughn, MBSWWYPBX

Re: Copper price is raising high #263239 05/19/06 01:27 PM
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metelcom Admin Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 9,289 Likes: 15 Maine, USA	Heres what the Hitachi rep sent to me about copper prices https://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06075/671509.stm Merritt Business Telephones & Equipment + Commercial Audio/Video Products Commercial Communications . . . Turner, Maine If it was built after 1980 don't expect it to work right.

Re: Copper price is raising high #263240 05/22/06 03:14 AM
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UpstateNetworks Member Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 211 Clifton Park, NY	Quote Originally posted by ev607797: Home Depot sent me a commercial purchaser flyer today advertising a similar price for C5e riser-rated (PVC, type CMR). The price you have seen MUST be for PVC, as in non-plenum cable becuase the plenum-rated stuff is approaching three times that on a good day. Plenum-rated (CMP) is pretty much all that can legally be used in most office buildings, so you should forget about the $66.00 stuff. That's interesting. I was in the big, orange box up here over the weekend. There were a couple of electrical contractors buying up all of the NM on the shelves. Took a peak at the Cat5E, which I hadn't done in several months. At that time, it was about $53. Yesterday - $91! -Steve

Re: Copper price is raising high #263241 05/25/06 11:44 AM
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cableguy714 Member Joined: May 2005 Posts: 5	Thanks guys. I went to the website. They sold out already. They told me customers have been wiped out their inventory lik no tomorrow. I guess the copper price is crazy like gas price. ridiculous

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